John R. Commons’s Industrial Relations: Its Development and Relevance to a Post-Industrial Society

Industrial design in a post-industrial society- a framework for understanding the relationship between industrial design and interaction design

Industrial design and interaction design meet in the development of ubiquitous computing or Ubicomp, i.e., the currently emerging situation where information and communication technology move from the desktop to pervade most aspects of our everyday world. We show that the material qualities of Ubicomp coincide with the areas where contemporary industrial design and interaction design overlap th...

Virtualized, Personalized and Ubiquitous Learning in Post-Industrial Society

The paper deals with an interrelation between social and cognitive phenomena associated with transition of the society to the post-industrial epoch. Ideas triggered our study came from two different fields: sociology and epistemology. From the sociological point, we consider the Post-industrial society as a virtual society, where artificial interfaces more and more separate individuals from the...

"Industrial Relations: A Paradigmatic Analysis"

Industrial Relations Centre

Teaching Comparative Industrial Relations

Introduction Mark Bray Comparative research is vital to the development of all social science disciplines. Indeed, many scholars have argued that the making of comparisons is the only method by which explanations of social behaviour and the development of theory occur. For example, the author of one comparative study of economic development in 'settler' societies argued: Only one analytical met...