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Lecture Notes

We are now in Lesson 2 and we'll continue to set the stage and talk about collective bargaining fundamentals and significance, and in this lesson we'll talk about the different approaches, the different disciplinary approaches taken to the study of collective bargaining and labor relations. We'll talk about an economic approach, we'll talk about an HR, human resource management approach, we'll talk about an industrial relations approach which is the one taken in this course, and we'll talk very briefly about the kind of a Marxist critical approach. We'll also be talking about the assumptions associated with the study of labor relations. What assumptions do different scholars, different practitioners make in the study of labor relations?