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760 ❚ Employee relationsEmployeesEmployers‘highest wagesand conditions’differentinterestsprofit/surplushigh quality servicesurvival of theenterprisecommoninterestsurvival of theenterprisereconciliation ofdifferent interestsprocessesagreementsreflect relative bargaining powersFigure 50.1Employee relations: reconciliation of interestswhich, it is believed, makes for readier acceptance than if they were imposed by athird party such as the State. This concept of voluntarism was defined by Kahn-Freund (1972) as ‘the policy of the law to allow the two sides by agreement and practiceto develop their own norms and their own sanctions and to abstain from legalcompulsion in their collective relationship’. It was, in essence, voluntarism that cameunder attack by government legislation from 1974 onwards, including the principleof ‘immunities’ for industrial action and the closed shop.