Lesson Plan

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week

Topics and Readings

1st
  • The Employment Relationship.

2nd
  • Pre-industrial and Industrial Forms of Employment.

3rd
  • The Common Law Contract of Employment.

4th
  • The Contemporary Labor Market.

5th
  • Unitarism and Theory in Industrial Relations.

6th
  • Conflict in Employment Relationships and The Floor of Rights.

7th
  • Trade Unions: Rationale and Development.

8th
  • Pluralism and Collective Bargaining.

                                                 MID TERM

9th
  • Labor Law: Rationale and Framework.

10th
  • Collective Bargaining

11th
  •  Collective Agreement and Grievance Arbitration.

12th
  • Strikes, Lockouts, and Interest Arbitration.

13th
  • Trade Union Limits and Incorporation and Critiquing the Floor of Rights.

14th
  • Radicalism and the Rights of Labor

15th
  • Globalization and the Changing Role of the State Public Sector Labor Relations.

16th
  • Regional Differences in Canadian Industrial Relations Human Capital Theory.

                                                  FINAL TERM