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dc.contributor.authorAckers, P
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-11T05:39:23Z
dc.date.available2021-02-11T05:39:23Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn0022-1856
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0022185620983970
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/402005
dc.description.abstractAlan Fox's frames of reference has sparked over half a century of debate between employment relations/human resource management pluralists, radicals and unitarists. But the notion of industrial relations pluralism itself continues to be highly disputed. This commentary tracks the journey from classical pluralism to neo-pluralism, then addresses three articles that offer a variety of radical pluralist alternatives. A fourth paper discussed, suggests a quantitative approach to testing Fox's frames, but this article makes a case for retaining the qualitative, case study method. A fifth explores the revival of paternalism on the border between unitarism and pluralism. Overall, the article argues that classical pluralism, based on trade unions and collective bargaining, is now outdated, but that neo-pluralism is capable of carrying forward its pragmatic, institutional spirit to explore the empirical complexity of contemporary employment relationships around the world. Finally, the discussion of employment relations pluralisms needs to re-engage with the wider political pluralism debate about liberal democratic societies and market economies.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Industrial Relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman resources and industrial relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3505
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.titlePluralisms? Social philosophy, social science and public policy in employment relations and human resource management
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC2 - Articles (Other)
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAckers, P, Pluralisms? Social philosophy, social science and public policy in employment relations and human resource management, Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.date.updated2021-02-11T05:33:09Z
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gro.rights.copyright© Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association (ALERA) 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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