Industrial Relations in the Future

The objective of this paper is to examine, with special reference to management, some likely developments in British industrial relations in the forthcoming decade [1]. During the past fifteen or so years, this aspect of our national life has of course had momentous economic, political and social repercussions for all members of the population and, as a consequence, it has been the focal point for a considerable measure of popular and scholarly disputation. Moreover, in view particularly of fundamental technical changes in manufacturing industry in the future, issues of labour-management relations are almost certain to feature no less prominently in these respects during the period under review.