An Analytical Study of Industrial Relations in Engineering Industry of Gujarat

Abstract

Industrial relations pose one of the most delicate complex problems to modern industrial society, with growing prosperity and rising wages. Workers have achieved a higher standard of living, they have acquired education sophistication and greater mobility, career patterns have changed, for larger sections of the people have been constrained to leave their farms to become wage earners and salary earners in urban areas under conditions of work. Ignorant and drenched in poverty, vast masses of men, women and children have migrated to a few urban areas. The organizations in which they are employed have cased to be individually owned and have become corporate enterprise. At the same time, however, a progressive status dominated, secondary group oriented, universalistic, aspirant and sophisticated class of workers has come up in to being who have their own trade unions and who have this gained a bargaining power which enables them to give a touch flight to their employers to establish their rights in the growing industrial society. As a result the government has stepped in and plays an important role in establishing harmonious industrial relations, partly because it has itself become an employer of millions of industrial workers, but mainly because it has enacted a vast body of legislation to ensure that the tight of industrial workers in private enterprises are suitably safeguard decides rapid changes have taken place in the techniques and methods of production. Long established jobs have disappeared, and new employment opportunities have created, which call for different patterns of experience and technical. Labour employer relationship have therefore became more complex that they were in past, and have been given a sharp edge because of widespread labour unrest. In the circumstances a clear understanding of the factors which make for this unrest and which are likely to eliminate it would be a rewarding experience for anyone who is interested in industrial harmony.