One of the primary factors underlying the formation of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) was the belief that all of the social sciences could make important contributions to the understand ing of problems in the field of industrial relations. This volume of papers presented testifies to the validity of this belief. The papers represent the thinking and study of people trained in labor relations, economics, law, political science, psychology, and sociology. They are suggestive of the many ways in which the interchange of concepts and tools between the different dis ciplines can add to the knowledge of industrial relations.
