Labor Studies

Industrial relations or employment relations is the multidisciplinary academic field that studies the employment relationship; that is, the complex interrelations between employers and employees, labor/trade unions, employer organizations and the state.

The newer name, "employment relations" is increasingly taking precedence because "industrial relations" is often seen to have relatively narrow connotations. Nevertheless, industrial relations has frequently been concerned with employment relationships in the broadest sense, including "non-industrial" employment relationships. This is sometimes seen as paralleling a trend in the separate but related disciple of human resource management.

While some scholars regard or treat industrial/employment relations as synonymous with employee relations and labour relations, this is controversial, because of the narrower focus of employee/labour relations, i.e. on employees or labour, from the perspective of employers, managers and/or officials. In addition, employee relations is often perceived as dealing only with non-unionized workers, whereas labour relations is seen as dealing with organized labour, i.e unionized workers.[betterĀ sourceĀ needed] Some academics, universities and other institutions regard human resource management as synonymous with one or more of the above disciplines, although this too is controversial.

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CUNY Graduate School and University Center

Four or more years; Public; $14,880 average out-state tuition; $6,930 average in-state tuition

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Four or more years; Public; $36,316 average out-state tuition; $15,791 average in-state tuition

San Francisco State University

Four or more years; Public; $17,622 average out-state tuition; $5,742 average in-state tuition

University of California-Los Angeles

Four or more years; Public; $41,196 average out-state tuition; $11,442 average in-state tuition

SUNY Empire State College

Four or more years; Public; $16,980 average out-state tuition; $7,070 average in-state tuition

CUNY Queens College

Four or more years; Public; $14,880 average out-state tuition; $6,930 average in-state tuition

Eastern Connecticut State University

Four or more years; Public; $18,436 average out-state tuition; $6,162 average in-state tuition

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