This book is written to cover critical issues on Labor and Industrial relations. It is a comprehensive summary of Labor Management issues, trade union laws, trade disputes, labor impasse, and issues involving civil servants in Industrial Relations.The roles of trade unions, employers, employees, and the various arms of Government that mold the economic and political structure of a system have been , superbly, documented in the book.
The book has nine chapters. Chapter one covers industrial relations development, labor movements, trade union laws, trade disputes, labor impasse, and strikes by civil servants. Chapter two deals with the roles of the three actors in the industrial relations process. Chapter three talks about labor legislations, while chapter four deals with The Factories Act of 1955, The Wages Boards Act, Trade Disputes Decrees,etc. Chapter five deals with representativeness, Employers' Associations, and contracting for the sale of labor. Chapter six discusses collective bargaining, distributive bargaining and stability of workers' organizations.
Chapter seven talks of strikes, other kinds of industrial conflicts, conciliation and arbitration, while chapter eight discusses substantive rules, procedural rules, employment and administrative rules and labor relations theories. Chapter nine treats issues in trade disputes, and styles of collecdtive bargaining. The book, is, therefore, unique, in itself.