Industrial Relations and Politics: Some Reflections

Abstract

None of the social science disciplines has played a smaller role in the study of industrial relations than political science. While the essays in this volume show the importance of sociology, social psychology and other fields, there is a noticeable absence of studies concerned with the interaction between politics and industrial relations. The ‘behavioural revolution’ in political science (especially opinion surveys analysed through sophisticated statistical techniques) has given us a great deal of knowledge about worker attitudes toward many subjects. We still know very little, though, about such matters as the impact of labour market conditions upon political behaviour, the way in which workers’ individual priorities are processed by labour organizations and the operation of labour organizations in the political system. It is striking how little attention political scientists have devoted to the role of labour unions in the domestic policy process despite the widespread belief that unions are (too?) powerful. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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