Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Absh•act: The story of the lntemational !11dustrialRelations Institute (!RI), its de facto leader Mary \/(I// Kleeck.from the U11ited States a11d it.f.firstchairman Kerstin Hesselgren .fromS111eden begim• in 1925, 111hen the /RI was established at a congress for welfare and personnel 1vorkers i11 Holland.At .first the organization 111as focused on scien/ljlc management a11d industrial relations but duri11fi the Great Depression its activities began revolving around economic planning.The story of the !RI th11s reflects a shift in the approach to social engineering, from being a question of industrial relations to becoming a 111a1ter of economic plan-11ing.The present article also tries to answer the more precise question why some 20 Swedes first joined and then abandoned the organization.
Source: American Studies in Scandinavia
Author: Benny Carlson
Institution: Lund University
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1706304097