Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations & International Relations

A webinar hosted by @crimt.bsky.social with @buiraonline.bsky.social

Feat: @daliagf.bsky.social, @valepuligna.bsky.social, plus me & @huwthomas.bsky.social on our @jirjournal.bsky.social special issue

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BUIRA Annual Conference 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place - The Geographies of Good Work - Buira June 25-27 2025  |  Pre-conference PhD Day: June 24 University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall Submit your abstracts […]

⏰ Deadline for abstract submission extended until 28 February ⏰

Submit your 500 word abstract via the BUIRA website: www.buira.net/conferences/...

What led to the ‘biggest moment for workers’ rights for a quarter of a century’? Vicente Silva and I look at this question in our new article published in @wesjnl.bsky.social
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BUIRA Annual Conference 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place - The Geographies of Good Work - Buira June 25-27 2025  |  Pre-conference PhD Day: June 24 University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall Submit your abstracts […]

Our latest keynote speaker is @kenanmalik.bsky.social Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and a columnist for the Observer. His latest book Not So Black and White challenges much of our understanding of race by retelling the history of the concept.

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BUIRA Annual Conference 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place - The Geographies of Good Work - Buira June 25-27 2025  |  Pre-conference PhD Day: June 24 University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall Submit your abstracts […]

BUIRA Annual Conference 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place – The Geographies of Good Work

Call for papers!

June 25-27 2025 | PhD Day: June 24 University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall

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Call for papers for a Special Issue in the Journal of Industrial Relations - Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations and International Relations

Read the call here: tinyurl.com/bdj7vxvb

Deadline for extended abstracts - 23 May 2025

Eds: @fhpitts.bsky.social and myself

The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals ‘As a comprehensive guide, this Companion cuts across disciplines, including labour studies, political economy, political science, sociology and social policy. It serves as an important resource for a...

Great to have contributed a chapter with @huwthomas.bsky.social on "workplace geopolitics" to the Elgar Companion to Decent Work & the Sustainable Development Goals.

Out today with @elgarpublishing.bsky.social:
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Read more here:
futuresofwork.co.uk/2023/09/12/f...

"The fight for a new labour standard to regulate platform work"

Here's a short article I wrote on the upcoming discussion at the ILO in June on a new labour standard for platform workers

www.ictur.org/IUR.html

Some other great pieces in this issue

BUIRA 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place - The Geographies of Good Work - Buira June 25-27 2025  |  Pre-conference PhD Day: June 24 University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall Submit your abstracts […]

BUIRA Annual Conference 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place – The Geographies of Good Work

Call for papers!

June 25-27 2025 | PhD Day: June 24
University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall

www.buira.net/conferences/...

New Technology, Work and Employment Click on the title to browse this journal

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The HIAL storm: Resisting the technological transformation of air traffic control Whether and under what conditions the implementation of technology can be resisted hinges on how labour can mobilise structural, associational, institutional, coalitional and ideational power resourc...

How do unions resist the implementation of technology that would otherwise have a deleterious impact on their member's terms and conditions of work? Our new paper in New Technology Work and Employment
looks at this question. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...