Introduction; Part 1 Confronting the Social Problem; Chapter 1 The Rise and Significance of Employee Representation in Industrial Management; Chapter 2 The Joint Committee as Instrument of Industrial Management and as object for Psycho-Social Research; Part 2 Evolving a Social Philosophy; Chapter 3 The First Analytical Category: Impulsion; Chapter 4 Circumjacence; Chapter 5 Interaction; Chapter 6 Emergence; Part 3 Clarifying Social Methodology; Chapter 7 Values and Subjectivity in Social Research; Chapter 8 The Research Situation and the Research Purpose; Part 4 Experimenting with Social Techniques and Devices; Chapter 9 Interviewing as a Technique for Psycho-Social Research; Chapter 10 Part Icipant Observing as a Technique for Psycho-Social Research; Chapter 11 The Technique of Direct Observation; Chapter 12 The Technique of Case Analysis; Chapter 13 The Technique Of Charting; Chapter 14 The Place Of Statistical Devices In Psycho-Social Research; postscript Postscript;