MHR 522 Chapter 4: MHR 522 Reading 1
1 Dec 2016
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Mhr 522 reading 1 foundations: concepts, issues, and debates + 7 excerpts. For society in general, the relations between workers and employers have implications for economic growth, inflation, unemployment, the level of distribution of income and wealth, and more generally the overall quality of life. Temporary definition - industrial relations: the study of the relations between labor and management. Who is (cid:862)la(cid:271)o(cid:396)(cid:863: labor generally refers to all of those working canadians who are in an employment relation and do not exercise substantive authority, but are instead ina position of subordination to those who do. These terms refer not just to labor unions and their members but also to labor federations. Labor federations are associations of unions, established primarily to represent, coordinate, and provide services to member unions at the provincial and national levels. Largest national federation in canada is the canadian labor congress or clc whose member unions account for 7 in 10 of all union workers.
