英国工业革命时期政府对劳资关系的调节

The Phantom of Liberty: The Evolution of British Industrial Relation Laws during the Industrial Revolution

工业革命时期英国对劳资关系的政府调节主要是废除约束性的立法,同时通过一些新的法令以保障个人的经济自由。从总体上看,这一时期政府对劳资关系更多的是要摆脱而不是承担责任,政府意在通过这种调整建立一种以个人自由为基础的劳资关系新模式,这明显受到了当时流行的经济自由主义的影响。经济自由主义认为自由是一种天赋的权利,表现在劳资关系方面就是个人的契约自由、谈判自由、劳动自由等,这种自由观强调个人自由和国家控制之间的对立,反对限制个人自由的立法,要求不受限制的自由。

Britain is the earliest country starting the industrialization and transforming from traditional society to industrial society, among which the industrial relations take a very important position, and the state＇s interference with the industrial relations becomes a historical result. The industrial relations have developed in a long history, and in different periods, the state plays different roles. This paper suggests that the state＇s policy of industrial relations tended to be laissez -faire during the industrial revolution.