TY - BOOK ID - 78403975 TI - Researching the World of Work : Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations AU - Strauss, George AU - Whitfield, Keith PY - 2018 SN - 1501717715 9781501717710 0801432901 9780801432903 0801485495 9780801485497 PB - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Industrial relations KW - Capital and labor KW - Employee-employer relations KW - Employer-employee relations KW - Labor and capital KW - Labor-management relations KW - Labor relations KW - Employees KW - Management KW - Methodology. KW - Industrial relations - Methodology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78403975 AB - This book, the first on industrial relations research methods, comes at a time when the field of industrial relations is in flux and research strategy has become more complex and varied. Research that once focused on the relationship between labor and management now involves a wider range of issues. This change has raised a number of key questions about how research should be done.The contributors represent four countries and a range of fields, including economics, sociology, psychology, law, history, and industrial relations. They identify distinctive research strategies and suggest approaches that might be appropriate in the future. Among their concerns are the relative value of qualitative and quantitative methods, of using primary and secondary data, and of single versus multimethod techniques. ER -