Book excerpt: Every industrializing community creates workers and managers, whose status and interrelations need to be defined. Industrial relations are created, and are usually a complex of interrelations between managers, agencies, workers, and government, together making up a system. This pioneering work, first published in 1958 and long out of print, presents a general theory of industrial relations and seeks to provide tools of analysis.A Masterworks in Industrial Relations series book, edited by Albert A. Blum, Michigan State University."