LABR 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Market Power, Equal Exchange, Neoliberalism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 1F90
• Professor: Larry Savage

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For workers, the terms of their employment, the nature of their work & For society, relations b/w workers and employers have implications for. Studying industrial relations: a conceptual foundation treatment they receive from employer in large part determine their standard of living, opportunity for personal growth, sense of dignity & self-respect, economic growth, inflation, unemployment, level and distribution of income. Narrower def. (cid:498)the study of the relations between labour and management(cid:499) Who is (cid:498)labour(cid:499)? (cid:498)refers to all those working canadians who are in an employment relation and don(cid:495)t exercise substantive authority, but instead in a position of (cid:498)substantive(cid:499) authority includes not only authority over others but authority. Labour unions organizations of workers intended primarily to rep & Collective bargaining primary purpose to represent their members. Union density (or %) of non-agricultural paid workers who are members. Labour federations associations of unions, established to represent, coordinate and provide services to member unions at provincial & national levels.