A variety of approaches to the study of union-management relationships--the historical, the case study, and the survey method, to mention several--have been attempted by students of industrial and labor relations. The authors of this article are identified with the first major attempt to extend...

Replies to Melville Dalton's comments on an article about local union-management relationship. Basis for development of general theoretical framework for study of union-management relations; Comparison of relationships; Improvement of method of mass data collection. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

In recent years, especially since the 1959 steel strike, there has been active concern about the "hardening" of labor-management relations. At issue is the definition of the territory of management functions or rights that will remain outside the scope of collective bargaining. Despite the...