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The survey sought to establish the nature and sources of industrial relations attitudes amongst 14 - 16 year old Scottish schoolchildren, to raise and test a number of hypotheses as to the sources and nature of such attitudes, and to relate the findings to existing work on employee attitudes.

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Variables The main variables collected were the views of 14 - 16 year olds towards trade unions, management and government actions in industrial relations, the media coverage of industrial relations, attitudes towards union membership, trade union power, strikes, worker participation and industrial democracy, the advantages and disadvantages of teaching industrial relations in schools. All of these are related to the extent of existing teaching of industrial relations, to newspapers read and to television programmes watched, to parental occupation, industry and class, to parental membership of trade unions and involvement in industrial action, and to home ownership, location and type of housing.

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