Product DescriptionEvery industrializing community creates workers and managers, whose status and interrelations need to be defined. Industrial relations are created, and are usually a complex of interrelations between managers, agencies, workers, and government, together making up a ?system.? This pioneering work, first published in 1958 and long out of print, presents a general theory of industrial relations and seeks to provide tools of analysis. A Masterworks in Industrial Relations series book, edited by Albert A. Blum, Michigan State University.Review?A noted scholar analyzes the ?web of rules? of a country?s industrial relations and shows how it is related to such fac­tors as the work environment, market characteristics and the distribution of power.??Saturday ReviewAbout the AuthorJohn T. Dunlop is David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy at Har­vard University.