- Title
- Advances in Labour Regulation Theory
- Creator
- Bray, Mark; Waring, Peter
- Relation
- Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations p. 155-168
- Relation
- Elgar Introductions to Management and Organization Theory
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781786439017.00018
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- At its most basic, regulation is the memory of a desired state. A collection of symbols observing an agreed standard; the groove in the record that directs the needle of human behaviour. That normative state is one that reflects an ordered set of decisions and points of consensus of how the social, economic and political relationships between human beings ought to be organized. Thus, regulation is constructed by people and reflects all the ingenuity, values, aspirations, intelligence, prejudice, dullness, creativity, wisdom and ignorance of those who determined its normative principles. This reductionist approach to thinking about regulation is useful in a number of respects. First, it reminds us of the primary utility of regulation in organizing human behaviour. Second, it overcomes efforts by neo-conservatives to deride ‘regulation’ as a pejorative term, equating it with ‘big government’, socialism and economic inefficiency. Third, it recuperates the notion that regulation is ubiquitous throughout societal institutions and structures and draws attention to the many producers, consumers and forms of regulation that deserve attention beyond that of the state. This notion of regulation guides our exposition of Labour Regulation Theory in this chapter, but it is very broad and regulation has been a central concept in many social science traditions.
- Subject
- regulation; labour; theory; advances
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1448481
- Identifier
- uon:43416
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781786439000
- Language
- eng
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