Industrial Relations, 4e, has been extensively revised to incorporate the major developments in government?s policies and programmes in the domains of labour laws, social security, labour welfare and industrial relations. The text includes the developments carried out in the fields of labour policy and labour legislation based on the recommendations of the second National Commission on Labour (2002), which led the government to codify the existing twenty-nine labour laws into four major homogeneous groups comprising (i) occupational safety, health and working conditions; (ii) wages; (iii) industrial relations; and (iv) social security. Crafted specifically for the students of Human Resource Management/Labour, Social Welfare/Personnel Management and Industrial Relations both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, this text will also be useful for students appearing for the UGC-NET exams, and professionals and functionaries in industrial organisations and labour administration.