Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay explores the current state of the field of Industrial The first part of the essay traces the emergence of IR out of the general concern with the to form a distinct field of study and research in the Anglo-American countries. The second part argues that the field has been plagued by a profound crisis of relevance in the 1980s and 1990s, registered by a decline in its importance within universities, a shrinking of its academic associations, a loss of interest on the part of its traditional audience, increased isolation from other disciplines, and a theoretical incapacity to come to grips with the sweeping changes that have occurred in labour markets, the workplace, and the wider political economy. This situation is leading to a redefinition of the field as Relations. In the third part of the essay, this drift towards Employment Relations is criticized for moving the field more squarely into the area of managerial science, for leaving it incapable of analyzing future waves of collective mobilization, and for its continued adherence to a geographically and historically constricted conceptual foundation. A better strategy, it is suggested, would be to go beyond employment by reconceptualizing the field in terms of work relations. Resume Cet article permet d'explorer la situation actuelle des relations industrielles. La premiere partie de l'article trace l'emergence des relations industrielles a partir du probleme general de la « question du travail » pour former un domaine distinct des etudes et de la recherche dans les pays anglo-americains. La deuxieme partie presente l'argument selon lequel le domaine a ete touche par une crise profonde de pertinence dans les annees 1980 et 1990, carecterise par un declin de son importance au sein des universites, une reduction des associations academiques, une perte d'interet de la part de son auditoire traditionnel, un isolement accru des autres disciplines et une incapacite therorique de confronter les changements importants qui se sont produits sur le marche du travail, en milieu de travail et dans l'economie politique en general. Cette situation mene a une nouvelle definition du domaine des «relations de l'emploi ». Dans la troisieme partie de l'article, cette tendance vers les relations de l'emploi est critiquee pour avoir deplace le domaine vers celui de la science de la gestion, pour avoir donne lieu a l'incapacite d'analyser les prochaines vagues de mobilisation collective et pour avoir continue a respecter une fondation conceptuelle geographiquement et historiquement restreinte. Une meilleure strategie, serait d'aller au-dela de l'emploi en reconceptualisant le domaine entermes de « relations du travail ».
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.018 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".