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Industrial Relations Counselors (IRC) is a US non-profit institution founded in 1926 with the funding and support of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to "advance the knowledge and practice of human relations in industry, commerce, education, and government." The incorporation of IRC was the result of a chain of events that began with the Ludlow Massacre in April of 1914. By June of 1914, Rockefeller Jr. had asked noted labor activist William Lyon Mackenzie King to lead a new Department of Industrial Relations within the Rockefeller Foundation, and to serve as his personal advisor on the Ludlow situation. In 1921, he funded a special "Industrial Relations staff" within a captive law firm of the Rockefeller Group. In 1926, after contributing to the founding of Industrial Relations schools within Princeton University and [others?], and in response to increasing demand for consultation and advice from corporations outside the Rockefeller family of companies, he agreed to support IRC as an independent non-profit for "up to $150,000 per year" until it could become self-sustaining.

IRC is the publisher of numerous books and papers in the field of Industrial Relations, which is now more commonly referred to as Human Resources or Human Capital Management. [Many of these are seminal works in the field need specific works to cite]

In 1953, in response to new IRS regulations on consulting by non-profits, IRC established a separate for-profit entity for its practical resarch division. This corporation became Organization Resources Counselors (1969-??), was renamed ORC Worldwide in 19xx, and was acquired by Mercer in 20xx.

http://www.ircounselors.org/history/history01.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller,_Jr.

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Industrial+Relations+Counselors,+inc%22&gws_rd=ssl https://dspace.allegheny.edu/handle/10456/25352 http://www.irs.princeton.edu/publishers/industrial-relations-counselors