The field of industrial relations is fraught with endless contestations between and among parties. Adewunmi (2008) observed that there is no other area of social interaction where the contradictions in a class society are as manifest as in the field of industrial relations. This is the locale where the two major players in the production process- labour and capital are engaged in an endless struggle to control the work process. Central to this conception is power and continuous struggle for control over work and employment relations and other range of related issues.
The state is one of the key actors in industrial relations and its role is determined by its orientation. This orientation can be political, ideological and socio-economic. Politically, …show more content…
To a limited or greater extent, the theme of degradation of labour or alienated labour which featured prominently in the works of men of the Enlightenment era, including Adam Smith, David Hume, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber is still of a major sociological, theoretical and research interest for contemporary investigation (Ninalowo, …show more content…
In part, an essential function of the state becomes that of facilitating the emergence of a new moral order, a new conscious collective. In addition, some mode of collective decision-making becomes necessary in the advanced organic society and thus the state must take on that additional responsibility. Decision-making for the organic collectivity and the formulation and dissemination of a new normative order become the state 's essential functions (Giddens, 1972). In the new normative order, occupational or corporate group becomes the key integrating structure, coordinating and reorganizing the multitude of individuals into the large social
The state is one of the key actors in industrial relations and its role is determined by its orientation. This orientation can be political, ideological and socio-economic. Politically, …show more content…
To a limited or greater extent, the theme of degradation of labour or alienated labour which featured prominently in the works of men of the Enlightenment era, including Adam Smith, David Hume, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber is still of a major sociological, theoretical and research interest for contemporary investigation (Ninalowo, …show more content…
In part, an essential function of the state becomes that of facilitating the emergence of a new moral order, a new conscious collective. In addition, some mode of collective decision-making becomes necessary in the advanced organic society and thus the state must take on that additional responsibility. Decision-making for the organic collectivity and the formulation and dissemination of a new normative order become the state 's essential functions (Giddens, 1972). In the new normative order, occupational or corporate group becomes the key integrating structure, coordinating and reorganizing the multitude of individuals into the large social