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The Machinery of Collective Relations

We have already seen that the environment plays an important part in the type of industrial-relations system that emerges in any country (see Chapter 1). Changes that have been taking place in the Nigerian environment have invariably affected the country’s institutions, and industrial relations has in consequence been affected. Thus, although the British model of industrial relations was imported into Nigeria, the environment has affected it to such an extent that what has now emerged and continues to develop, is completely different from both the original model and what obtains today in the U…