Industrial disputes and labour management relations in India

With the rapid industrialization of the country the problems of labour-management relations concerning strikes, lock-outs, picketing and other instruments of economic coercion have multiplied. In many industrially advanced countries the system of collective bargaining has been adopted to resolve problems of wages and to regulate conditions of employ ment. India has adopted adjudication system as an alternative to collective bargaining. Further the law relating to instruments of economic coercion is regulated not only by what is generally known as labour legislation but also by the provisions of the Constitution, the criminal law and other statutes which aim at preserving law and order in the country.

The learned author in this book discusses in detail the framework of study, the concept of instruments of economic coercion, concept and definitions of strike and lock-out, right oke and lock-out, regulations of strikes, and lock-outs, effect of instruments economic coercion on wages and the right terminate employment relations. In this bo the author has made a critical and evalua assessment of the relevant labour legislat and judicial decisions.

This book is eminently useful and indispens able for management personnel, trade unions, labour departments and students law, business management, personnel anagement, commerce, labour economics, our psychology and labour sociology.