Labour relations: a brief introduction and specialization in english-speaking universities

Resumen

With this article, we aim to inform readers in the Francophone, German-speaking, and Spanish-speaking worlds, as well as other Italian and Brazilian intellectuals, of the importance of universities in the Anglophone world (Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and the United States) in the study and research of Labor Relations, and of Germany in the field of Social Policy. We note, however, a lack of experts in the History of Labor Relations and the History of Social Policy in the English-speaking world and in Germany. It is precisely this doctrinal gap that has motivated the creation of this periodical, the "Critical Journal of the History of Labor Relations and Social Policy," through which we will promote the development of the historical dimension (we intend, albeit flexibly, that the research published here will have a final year of study and analysis by 1999) of both disciplines: Labor Relations and Social Policy. That is the purpose of the founders of this publication, and particularly my own, as Deputy Director and editor. The pages of this article feature significant figures from the origins of both fields of knowledge in Europe, as well as the seven aptly named founding fathers of Labor Relations in Spain. We limit ourselves almost exclusively to a doctrinal, rather than institutional or contractual, presentation, and the chosen chronological framework is the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. The reader will easily discover these significant figures, perhaps the most important of all being Gustav von Schmoller, founder and first President of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Association for Social Politics). Through the tables included at the end of this article in its electronic HTML version (not in the current 2020 print version), the reader can learn about the pioneers of Labor Relations at select universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada (we also include Quebec in the latter, but we will address this Canadian province in more detail later). In the second part of this work [the author abandoned this work in 2011 to dedicate herself to other scientific pursuits: Editor's Note], we would publish tables of those who cultivate the science of Social Policy in the academic world and also expand the doctrinal information with a study of authors who contributed to the creation of this discipline in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, England, and Scotland. The final result of what Carmen Amaya wrote and what was subsequently added allows the content of the subject of Social Law and Labor Relations, of recognized interest today, to remain very much alive.