Introduction
It is frequently observed that Employment Relations (ER) as a field of study is marked by a diversity of disciplinary and research traditions. Labour economics, sociology, political science, law, psychology and even geography all claim some authority over the study of work and employment. To do justice to such variety of interests in one chapter would be overly ambitious and confounded by the national-specific traditions of research characterising the field (Frege, 2007). Consequently, this chapter takes a more selective approach to its review. It begins by providing an account of dominant analytical traditions in the Anglophone literature, which have focused on the ...
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