Indirect conflict management is management of conflict that aims to settle conflict between parties by adopting a strategy that involves less contact between conflicting parties.
Indirect conflict management uses the following strategies:
managed interdependence, appeal to common goals, upward referral, altering scripts and myths
The industrial revolution brought spectacular technological improvements that led to huge productivity gains in the manufacturing sectors that started to demand a very high number of employees. On the other hand, there was an excess of labor in the agricultural sector that, at those times, employed the majority of the population and it had also become highly unproductive.
Therefore, there was a movement of labor from the unproductive agricultural sector to the productive manufacturing sector. This movement was attached to the transfer of people from the countryside, where agricultural activities were located, to urban areas, where factories were located.
