La documentation en relations industrielles Sources and References in Industrial Relations

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Cet article, à préoccupation éclectique, est d'abord destiné au praticien des relations industrielles, intéressé à s'enquérir des diverses sources de références, de formation professionnelle et d'information dans la littérature des relations de travail. L'auteur, avant d'en suggérer un tri personnel en fonction de ce qu'il considère être les besoins courants des praticiens oeuvrant dans les différents secteurs du monde des relations du travail, situe les sources de documentation dans le processus de la recherche en relations industrielles, en classifie les types en catégories et énumère, à titre d'exemples, un certain nombre de problèmes pouvant faire objet de recherche.

Summary

This article has been prepared with the purpose of providing for industrial relations practicians' wants of reference facilities. The problem of documentation, as the practician will face it and as the author sees it, is threefold: first, documented references have to be consulted when specific problems have to be studied; second, books and articles have to be found and consulted for the sake of improving the educational background of the practician; and third, a certain amount of documentation has to be accumulated and maintained up-to-date for library needs in order to meet the usual requirements of individual concerns, whether business enterprises, unions or governemental agencies.

In the first part of the article, the author analyses briefly the main purposes of a systematic review of specialized literature when a specific problem has to be studied. Then, industrial relations research is divided into four different categories. A set of examples of typical day-to-day research problems is thereafter submitted for illustration purposes.

In the second part of the article, a certain number of index services, periodicals, governmental publications, specialized books, etc., are suggested.