A PERSPECTIVE ON INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS THE ORIES

During the second half of the 20th century, a bountiful corpus of scie ntific writings has arisen around industrial relations. But these many studies are hard refit into a single, integrated theory. For each app roach - the systemic viewpoint developed by Dunlop, Marxists paradigms , institutionalism, action theories and economic models of negotiation - the most significant studies are presented and critically reviewed. A personal perspective is worked out on the basis of a generic-histor ical analysis and the notions of bargaining and ''arena''. It fits - a nd gives new insight - into the institutionalist current of thought.