A growing number of observers of industrial relations in the United States are becoming con vinced that broad changes are occurring which will have a major effect on the labor-management relations system. This article looks at the major changes and suggests that one consequence may be the emergence of the public sector as the area where pace-setting innovations could occur. Minimal ly, it is argued, public sector labor-management relations will no longer have "the bridesmaid and never the bride" status with respect to industrial relations practice and scholarship.
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