printTheory and History of the Research Development on Labor (Industrial) Relations in Western Science
Kozina I.М.
Cand. Sci. (Sociol.), Prof., HSE University, Moscow, Russia ikozina@hse.ru
Kozina I.М. Theory and History of the Research Development on Labor (Industrial) Relations in Western Science. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2025. No 12. P. 3-12
The article is devoted to the analysis of labor (industrial) relations as a scientific discipline aimed at studying the processes and results of establishing the rules of relations in the labor sphere and the social nature of the compromises reached. The main conceptual approaches to the study of labor relations and the history of the development of western science are discussed – from its emergence at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries to the crisis and the latest transformation at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The relationship between the demands of practice and evolving the subject field in Western countries and in Russia is shown. Main features of labor relations as a scientific direction are highlighted: the interdisciplinary nature of research, the “focal” structure of the subject field and the high degree of politicization of the research focus.
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