This graduate course in industrial relations is conducted as a seminar, which examines current issues in labour relations, and investigates their historical background as a way of placing them in historical perspective. The approach is interdisciplinary, and the readings and discussions relate the present to the past and vice versa. Historical methodology and historiography are not covered, as the course is intended to supplement the study of industrial relations with a selection of readings pertinent to current themes. Topics covered include: Hours of Work, Occupational Health and Safety, Technological Change, Unions Globalization and the Environment, Immigrant Workers Experience, Whistle-blowers, Gender in the Workplace, The Employee Representation Debate, and the Unorganized Employee.