INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND LABOUR LAW: RECOVERY OF A SHARED TRADITION?

Ruth Dukes and Eleanor Kirk, University of Glasgow School of Law

In the UK, the scholarly disciplines of industrial relations and labour law have common roots, above all in the pioneering work of Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Since the 1980s, the field, or fields, of study have been transformed, in part by complex and partially intertwined processes of ‘juridification’ and human resource managerialization. Notwithstanding the shared heritage of labour law and industrial relations, deepening disciplinary silos have meant that these processes have been studied, for the most part, in isolation from one another. Today the ‘fissuring’ and precarization of work suggests the need for a …

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