#AcademicSky: Are you a social scientist researching the future of #work and #care? Do consider submitting an abstract for a contributed volume, edited by a stellar team: docs.google.com/forms/d/11V0... #sociology @hss.springernature.com @lutfunlata.bsky.social @drshereegregory.bsky.social
Coming in 2026: Feminism and Organization. An international journal committed to advancing critical feminist scholarship, activism, and praxis to promote social justice and equality. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/femos. Publihsed by Bristol University Press
New for 2026: Feminism and Organization
The journal will publish work that challenges structural inequalities rooted in patriarchal systems, especially within the realm of work.
Edited by @profalisonpullen.bsky.social & @nela-smolovic.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/new-journal-...
Thrilled to see the announcement for our new journal, Feminism and Organization, I will be co-editing with @profalisonpullen.bsky.social, and a legion of superb feminists around the globe everyone would be honoured to work with: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/new-journal-... @bupjournals.bsky.social
03-07-1892 AUSTRALIA: A 6,000 strong meeting calls for immediate strike action at Broken Hill as miners' previous agreements with employers expire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892_Br...
CANADA: First unionized Uber workers want more pay transparency, chance to challenge bad ratings www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
📢 Call for Special Issue Proposals – Journal of Industrial Relations (JIR) Sage
✔ Review guidelines for proposals 👉 journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
#JIR #SpecialIssue #IndustrialRelations #LaborStudies #CallForProposals #AcademicPublishing
Sign-up now to find out more about the National First Nations Weaving Symposium, 5 - 8 September, co-presented by the JamFactory and Ku Arts, with support from Creative Australia.
www.nationalweavingsymposium.com.au
I'm looking for recommendations for a book on international employment relations for postgraduate level teaching. Can scholars please suggest their top three? Thank you
📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢
Relations industrielles - Industrial Relations is launching a call for papers on the topic: ’The Socio-Environmental Restructuring of Work and Employment: Processes, Effects and Governance’.
🗓️ Deadline for submissions is June 15, 2025
Call for papers' details: bit.ly/3CH2wru
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Understanding care, or @allisonpugh.bsky.social connective labor, is prerequisite to automating,replacing,or even “augmenting” it. Care isn’t a list of actions to be allocated to bots or systems. To care is human.
Labour has now presented a new Employment Bill.
There are several areas in which it could be significantly expanded, such as workplace democracy & collective bargaining — see @ewanmg.bsky.social’s briefing from November 2024 on the Employment Rights Bill:
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
A tree bathed in the golden glow of sunrise. I love this tree, especially as it starts to bud in Spring time. It's in a field just at the base of Glastonbury Tor.
Thank you again to all who joined us last Friday at the London BUIRA launch for Richard Hyman’s ‘Concise Introduction to Employment Relations’. Congratulations, Richard!
#booklaunch #employmentrelations
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰𝘀.
𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 - 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘 𝙊𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜
𝗔𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻, Macquarie University, Australia
@profalisonpullen.bsky.social
𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹 𝗥𝗵𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0170...
Our report with Child of the North published today calls for creativity to be embedded into an inclusive school curriculum to develop a new generation of creatives to boost economic growth.
www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...
What does #sociology have to say about #gender and #class in 2025?
Just a few places left for the Foundation's debut Conversations event with Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social.
📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online
Register: buff.ly/H6NtGPw
On my reading list ~ this book ~ at the intersections of Sociology of Work & Sociology of Music, working in the creative industries! @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social
Is there a recording of the presentation available?
