Acid said:
Radical perspective is when you think that conflict is inevitable right?
Isn't that Pluralist? i'm just looking in my book..
Pluralist - which accepts the inevitability of conflict because it recognises that within organisations there will be a variety of groups with divergent interests, objects, aspirations, loyalties and attachments.
Unitary - which assums that each work organisation is an integrated entity with a common purpose or goal. Industrial relations is seen as being based on mutual cooperation and a common object of both employers and employees is the efficient function of the organisation.
Radical - which recognises fundamental and inherent conflicts of interests between workesr and employers at the workplace. They see worker-management relations as one aspect of class relations where there is antagonism of interests between capital (the property owning class) and labour (the working class) finding expression of the class conflict in capitalist society.