《中国劳动关系学40年（1978-2018）》由国内一批劳动关系领域优秀的中青年学者编写而成。全书以中国劳动关系市场化和中国劳工政策的发展历程为背景，综述和提炼了中国劳动关系研究近40年的发展成果。劳动关系学作为一门新兴的交叉学科，其研究成果涉及多个研究领域，所以本书综述的研究成果涵盖了劳动关系学、劳动法学、工会研究、劳工研究、劳动经济学和管理学等多学科。

《中国劳动关系学40年（1978-2018）》以时间发展为逻辑线索，梳理了改革开放40年来不同发展时期的研究成果。全书的内容聚焦到三大主题的研究成果，即劳动关系主体、劳动关系制度与微观企业劳动关系研究。在具体内容安排上，劳动关系主体研究综述了关于工会、雇主及政府三大主体的研究成果；劳动关系制度研究综述了集体协商与集体合同制度、劳动争议处理制度、集体行动与政府治理制度以及企业民主管理制度的研究成果；微观企业劳动关系研究综述了关于企业劳动关系管理、企业社会责任以及企业内部沟通与协调的研究成果。在各章具体的阐述中，作者们把劳动关系学科的初创、学科成立以及学科趋于成熟的逻辑脉络贯彻于全书的内容之中。

"40 Years of Chinese Labor Relations (1978-2018)" is compiled by a group of outstanding young and middle-aged scholars in the field of labor relations in China. Against the background of the marketization of labor relations in China and the development of labor policies in China, the book summarizes and refines the development achievements of labor relations research in China in the past 40 years. As an emerging interdisciplinary discipline, labor relations has research results involving multiple research fields, so the research results reviewed in this book cover labor relations, labor law, trade union studies, labor studies, labor economics and management and other disciplines. "40 Years of Chinese Labor Relations (1978-2018)" takes time development as a logical clue and sorts out the research results of different development periods in the past 40 years of reform and opening up. The content of the book focuses on the research results of three major themes, namely, labor relations subjects, labor relations system and micro-enterprise labor relations. In terms of specific content arrangement, the research on labor relations subjects summarizes the research results on the three major subjects of labor unions, employers and governments; The research results of collective bargaining and collective contract system, labor dispute settlement system, collective action and government governance system, and enterprise democratic management system are reviewed. The research results on enterprise labor relations management, corporate social responsibility, and internal communication and coordination of enterprises are reviewed. In the specific elaboration of each chapter, the authors implement the logical context of the initiation, establishment and maturity of the discipline of labor relations in the content of the book.（AI翻译）