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The latest news from BUIRA
Executive committee election results
Elections to the two vacant places on the BUIRA Executive Committee took place at the association's Annual General Meeting earlier this month in Newcastle.
Eleanor Kirk (University of Glasgow) and Yvonne Rueckert (Portsmouth University).
21st July 2019
Change in BUIRA Stewardship Team
Following a successful conference hosted at Newcastle University, we're pleased to announce that a team from the University of Birmingham have become the BUIRA Stewards.
Many thanks to Jo McBride, Ana Lopes, Stewart Johnstone, Stephen Procter and Michael Brooks for their hard work running the association.
The Birmingham team is as follows:
Tony Dobbins – President
David J Bailey – Membership Officer
Genevieve Coderre-LaPalme – Events and Conference Officer
Andy Hodder – Secretary
Paul Lewis – Treasurer
Alex Wood – Communications Officer
21st July 2019
Conference schedule (link fixed)
Dear members
The latest schedule is available here. Please check as there have been some minor adjustments.
We look forward to welcoming you all to Newcastle on Monday.
The Organising Team
27th June 2019
2019 Conference schedule
The 2019 Conference schedule is now available online
11th June 2019
Vacancies on the BUIRA Exec
NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS
The BUIRA Executive Committee will have 2 vacancies as from July 2019.
As discussed and agreed at the AGM in Leeds 2016, the voting system for vacancies on the Executive Committee will be conducted differently.
We now invite all members to forward their interest in becoming a member of the BUIRA Exec Committee to BUIRA admin to Kay Pryer and Susanne Laidler at admin@buira.org.
All members are welcome to apply regardless of career stage i.e. early, senior etc
However, we would strongly encourage women to apply for these positions as they remain to be under-represented on the Committee.
Of course this does not remove open competition and the selection process is still via the membership at the AGM, not the Stewardship or the Executive Committee.
Please include a short biography of no more than 300 words and your reasons for applying for the vacant position.
7th June 2019
Call for papers: Flexible Work Patterns Study Group Meeting Ilera European Congress 2019
From Study group 10
Call for papers: Flexible Work Patterns Study Group Meeting Ilera European Congress 2019
ILERA European Congress 2019 Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany 5–7 September 2019
The Flexible Work Patterns Study Group will meet Thursday, 5 September 2019, 9:30-11:00am before the official opening of the congress. The group covers all aspects of flexible work issues including part-time work, telework, home working, shift work, flexible hours, compressed working week, zero hours contracts and other temporary and flexible arrangements.The meeting brings together scholars working in this area to network and discuss work in progress, or recently completed, in an informal setting. Papers from doctoral students are very welcome.
Abstracts of papers to be presented at the study group are invited on any aspects of flexible working and may be at the macro, organisational or individual level; theoretically based; or on empirical research that is country, region, sector or organisation specific.
Abstracts should be about 500 words and include:
Paper title
Name(s) of authors, institutional affiliation and contact details
Aim
Theoretical/Research framework
Method
Findings
Discussion/Conclusion
Please send the abstract as a word file to c.edwards@kingston.ac.uk; clare.kelliher@cranfield.ac.uk; R.Croucher@mdx.ac.uk; by Monday July 1 2019 at the latest. Authors selected to present at the Study Group will be notified as soon as possible.
Note early bird tickets are available until 31 May 2019.
https://ilera2019.giraweb.de/content/registration
Please get in touch if you need further information.
We look forward to receiving your papers,
Best wishes,
Coordinators
Professor Christine Edwards Kingston University Business School Kingston Hill, Kingston Surrey KT2 7LB United Kingdom E-mail: c.edwards@kingston.ac.uk
5th June 2019
University of Manchester, Work and Equalities Institute (WEI) Research Seminar
University of Manchester
Work and Equalities Institute (WEI)
Research Seminar
Financialization, work and inequalities: the case of Italy
Dr Angelo Salento (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)
Date: Wednesday 12th June 2019
Time: 15:30 - 17:00 Hrs (coffee and tea at 15:15)
Venue: Alliance Manchester Business School, Room G.013 (view campus map here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/maps/interactive-map/?id=26)
Abstract
The contemporary dynamics of inequality are not only a consequence of the ineffectiveness of the redistribution devices: they are primarily connected to the imbalances in the distribution of income “at its source”. The processes of financialization – i.e. the tendency of business to pursue financial accumulation strategies, or anyway to pursue the maximization of return on capital for investors in the short term – enrich financial and managerial elites, promoting a “wealthification” of income, whilst they trigger a reduction of labour costs, and a decline of wages. The analysis presented, specifically referred to the Italian case, considers both the accumulation strategies of large non-financial firms, and the effects of the “short-termist turn” of economic players in the foundational economy, which additionally operates as a regressive taxation, entailing a growing difficulty for working classes to access basic goods and services.
About the Speaker
Angelo Salento is associate professor (senior lecturer) of Economic and Labour Sociology in the Università del Salento (Lecce, Italy), where he teaches Economic and Labour Sociology, Sociology of Organizations, and Sociological Analysis of Development. His background is in labour law and economic sociology. He has done research on the regulation of economy, financialization, local and rural development, the foundational economy. In 2014 he was a visiting researcher in CRESC, University of Manchester. He is currently visiting the Alliance Manchester Business School.
5th June 2019
Special Offer: Historical Studies in Industrial Relations
Special Offer: Historical Studies in Industrial Relations
HSIR is losing its storage facilities at Keele so we are offering back-issues for sale at the bargain price of £1 per single issue, numbers 1–22 (1996–2006), and £2 per double issue/annual, numbers 23/24–31/32 (1997–2011) and 33–37 (2012–2016), plus postage and packing. This is a one-off sale as afterwards we will have to dispose of most copies. Single issues are approximately 60,000 words in length; double-issues and annuals, 110,000.
HSIR was established to provide an outlet for research on the history of industrial relations. This includes research on contemporary issues, which often lack a historical foundation. A few examples of articles:
William Brown, ‘The High Tide of Consensus: The System of Industrial Relations in Great Britain (1954) Revisited’. 4: 135–49.
Peter Dorey, ‘Weakening the Trade Unions, One Step at a Time: The Thatcher Governments’ Strategy for the Reform of Trade-Union Law, 1979–1984’. 37: 169–200.
John Edmonds, ‘Positioning Labour Closer to the Employers: The Importance of the Labour Party's 1997 Business Manifesto’. 22: 85–107.
Paul Edwards, ‘The Analytical Heritage of Alan Fox’s History and Heritage (1985). 14: 139–58.
Keith Ewing, ‘The State and Industrial Relations: ‘Collective Laissez-Faire’ Revisited’. 5: 1–31.
Nina Fishman, ‘“A Vital Element in British Industrial Relations”: A Reassessment of Order 1305, 1940–1951’. 8: 43–86.
Colin Hay, ‘The Trade Unions and the “Winter of Discontent”’. 36: 181–203.
Bob Hepple, ‘Wedderburn’s The Worker and the Law: An Appreciation’.
34: 215–28.
Sian Moore, ‘Gender and Class Formation: Women’s Mobilization in the Industrialization of the Bradford Worsted Industry, 1780–1845’. 35: 1–31
Jim Phillips, ‘UK Business Power and Opposition to the Bullock Committee’s 1977 Proposals on Worker Directors’. 31/32: 1–30.
John Saville, ‘The Trade Disputes Act of 1906’. 1: 11–45.
Rebecca Zahn, ‘German Codetermination without Nationalization and British Nationalization without Codetermination: Retelling the Story’. 36: 1–27.
Bill Wedderburn, ‘History of British Labour Law’. 17: 127–38.
See the HSIR website for more authors and articles.
To buy back-issues, contact Paul Smith: paulsmithblist@hotmail.co.uk
5th June 2019
BUIRA 2019: Call for Doctoral Papers and Conference Participation
BUIRA 2019: Call for Doctoral Papers and Conference Participation
The British Universities Industrial Relations Association holds 2019 conference at Newcastle University, Monday 1- Wednesday 3 July 27th July, 2019.
The PhD session is planned to hold on last day of the conference, Wednesday 1st July 2019. The session will have two main features (PhD paper presentations and panel discussions).
Panel Discussion ‘Life after PhD: Hopes and Impediments’
Panels will offer discussions on opportunities and challenges for new PhDs, exploring the highways and cul-de-sacs in academia.
Panels will include senior academics, Mid-Career, and Early Careers. A representative from the University and College Union UCU is expected to be in the panel. Details of panel will be confirmed in weeks to come.
Paper Presentation
Invitation is hereby extended to PhD colleagues who are researching in the field of Industrial/Employment Relations, to submit abstracts for doctoral papers.
Abstracts could be on any work in progress paper (WIP), or from sections of ongoing PhD work- the idea of this is to offer a platform away from main BUIRA conference paper sessions, where critical, but friendly feedback could be offered by doctoral peers and from established academics.
This call for abstracts opens from Tuesday 8th May to Friday 14th June. Please send abstract of 250 words to: buiraphd@outlook.com
Venue: Newcastle University Business School, 5 Barrack Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Registration: Click Here to Register.
Accommodation: the official accommodation page.
22nd May 2019
The BUIRA International & Comparative Employment Relations Study Group will be holding the following seminar in May:
The BUIRA International & Comparative Employment Relations Study Group will be holding the following seminar in May:
Professor Guglielmo Meardi, Warwick Business School
'Brexit, migration and labour market policy: comparative lessons from Canada, Switzerland and Norway'
Time and location: 29th May 2019, 2-4pm in Darwin Building DW0.29/0.30, Keele University
For further information, please contact Carola Weissmeyer at Keele University (c.weissmeyer@keele.ac.uk, 01782 733603)
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Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations
Keele Business School (KBS)
Keele University
Keele, Staffs ST5 5BG
Tel: 01782 733603
Email: c.weissmeyer@keele.ac.uk
KBS website: www.keele.ac.uk/kbs
22nd May 2019
EFES NEWSLETTER - MAY 2019
22nd May 2019
Central London BUIRA Seminar: Labour law and sustainability
Labour law and sustainability
with Professor Tonia Novitz (University of Cardiff) Labour standards and social sustainability, and Dr Ania Zbyszewska (University of Warwick) Work regulation and environmental sustainability: Moving beyond the discourse of conflicting rights
Friday 31 May 2019, 10.30am – 12.30pm, followed by buffet lunch
University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
(opposite Madame Tussauds and nearly opposite Baker Street tube)
Room C279
For further details and to reserve a place, contact Linda Clarke (clarkel@wmin.ac.uk)
This regular monthly seminar is focused on the ever more urgent question of how labour law can address climate change and sustainability issues and we are fortunate to have two expert speakers.
Tonia Novitz is a Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol and will discuss the emergence of recognition of social sustainability under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She will outline the partial acknowledgement of certain facets of an International Labour Organisation (ILO) decent work agenda in this context in substantive terms within, for example, SDGs 5 and 8. She will also discuss the potential significance for labour standard setting and enforcement of procedural entitlements related to sustainable decision-making under SDG 16, alongside the challenges of global policy coherence envisaged in SDG 17. Her analysis draws on experience as a participant in the European Union (EU) funded Horizon 2020 project Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART): see https://www.smart.uio.no/. A list of her publications is available at: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/people/tonia-a-novitz/index.html.
Ania Zbyszewska is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick School of Law. She will talk about her research on the interface of work and environmental regulation, which focuses on legal contestations and conflicts produced by jurisdictional boundaries and legal dis/articulation, but also probes the possibilities inherent in more ecologically-attuned forms of work regulation and governance. She is currently involved in a European Commission-funded project entitled aGREENment, which investigates the role of European, including UK-based, labour unions in negotiating such forms of governance through the means of collective bargaining.
This seminar is an opportunity to air and discuss these issues in an open forum and consider their implications for industrial relations. Anyone interested is welcome to attend this event. These meetings can be full though so, if you would like to attend and to help forecast catering provision, please Contact: Professor Linda Clarke, clarkel@wmin.ac.uk or 020350 66528
22nd May 2019
Work and Equalities Institute Second Annual Lecture
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Most literature and public debate on the future of work revolves around the impact of technology, potential for job loss, changes in work design and new concepts of organisation and leadership. There is much less analysis of the gendered implications of work and labour market change. Using survey data from the Australian Working Women’s Future project, with a sample of 2,100 women and 500 men, augmented with focus group data from women in high and low skill, secure and precarious jobs, this presentation will focus on the experiences and expectations of young workers (16-40 year olds) in Australia. The results highlight the discrepancies between women’s and men’s current experiences at work and some similarities in how they foresee the future of work and family formation. Our survey data show a convergence between men and women who are parents and young women who are not parents stating the importance for their futures of flexibility and work-family leave policies. Our qualitative data suggest having children is considered in similar ways by young women, regardless of skill level and job security, with the opportunity cost of child bearing versus work, and costs associated with child care and housing rating high in their considerations. These results portend a change in gender relations amongst younger working parents and have implications for policy at state and firm levels about work and family formation. |
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Marian Baird AO became Professor of Gender and Employment Relations in 2009, distinguishing her as the first female professor in industrial relations at the University of Sydney. In 2018 Marian is a Pro-Chancellor of the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney. She is Head of the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies and Co-Director of the Women, Work and Leadership Research Group in the University of Sydney Business School. Marian is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia (ASSA), a Co-Editor of the Journal of Industrial Relations and past-President of the Industrial Relations Society of New South Wales. She is editor of the policy series of Sydney University Press and she has been visiting scholar at MIT, Michigan State University, University of Nottingham, Leeds University Business School and Queen Mary University of London Business School. Marian was awarded an AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) for outstanding services to improving the quality of women’s working lives and for contributions to tertiary education in 2016. In 2018, Marian was named in Apolitical's Top 100 Most Influential People in Gender Equality list. In 2014 she received the Edna Ryan Award for making positive change for women in the workforce, in 2013 she received the AFR/Westpac Women of Influence Award in Public Policy, and in 2015 and 2003 she won the University of Sydney’s Business Schools most engaged researcher awards. Marian is one of Australia's leading researchers in the fields of women, work and care. She is CI on a number of significant research grants, including the Centre of Excellence on Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) and The Australian Women’s Work Futures project. Marian is a very engaged researcher, working with many government departments, organisations, unions and not-for-profits to improve the position for women in the workforce and society. |
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Lindsay Endell, Work and Equalities Institute Manager
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Alliance Manchester Business School | The University of Manchester | AMBS 6.037 |
Booth Street West | Manchester M15 6PB | +44 (0) 161 275 0556 | lindsay.endell@manchester.ac.uk
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22nd May 2019
Work & Equalities Institute Policy Discussion Panel
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Developing Decent Work Developments and challenges in the case of Greater Manchester |
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The labour market and nature of work are changing at an alarming rate due to factors such as globalisation, the impact of de-regulation and the complexity of new technologies. We are seeing greater dualism and fragmentation in terms of employment, and the reach of the state and public policy is being challenged within such a context. However, public institutions at the local level are increasingly being seen as important platforms for re-regulating employment relations and standards. There is growing interest in the role that city and regional level public institutions can play in re-engineering a return to ‘decent’ labour standards: this is an emerging view being generated within the nation state, the European level and even the ILO. Yet what does this mean in terms of establishing positive labour standards and reversing the shift to poor or bad employment practices? What are the challenges of utilising the local tiers of the state as a vehicle for decent work in terms of its organisational capacity, political diversities, and changing links to the European Union? The session will reflect on these questions and discuss the possibilities and risks related to this new direction in establishing labour and employment standards. There will be specific discussion of a number of emerging initiatives and developments both in Greater Manchester and further afield, including local employment charters, the role of local councils in providing decent work, the use of public procurement for setting minimum standards in supply chains, and the changing nature of social dialogue with city based organisations.
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Dr Sheena Johnson (also chairing) Work and Equalities Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School
Ian MacArthur Head of Strategic Relationships, GM Business Growth Hub
Dr Mat Johnson Work and Equalities Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School
Lynn Collins North West TUC
Stephen Overell Greater Manchester Combined Authority |
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Alliance Manchester Business School | The University of Manchester | AMBS 6.037 |
Booth Street West | Manchester M15 6PB | +44 (0) 161 275 0556 | lindsay.endell@manchester.ac.uk
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22nd May 2019
Modern Working Practices and the Future of Work
22nd May 2019
Andrew Brady book UK Unions & Labour Party
Dear all, In 2017, I examined the Strathclyde PhD of Andrew Brady, a Unite official. Now he has a book out based on this, which I think will be of great interest to IR academics.
It looks at Union influence on Labour Party policy for the Social Contract (1974-79), NMW (1998), ERA (1999) & Warwick (2004). He interviewed many of the key figures of the TUs & LP.
Unions and Employment in a Market Economy Strategy, Influence and Power in Contemporary Britain
Best Wishes, Peter
Visiting Professor in the History of Industrial Relations, Loughborough University
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/phir/staff/peter-ackers/
Paperback,Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain,https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319341613
On Professor Hugh Clegg: https://youtu.be/zwt_D0IX94o
22nd May 2019
You're invited to the Unions 21 Annual Conference at ITF House on Monday May 21st.
You're invited to the Unions 21 Annual Conference at ITF House on Monday May 21st.
This year, we'll be exploring how to reinvigorate unions, particularly how collective voice can overcome issues workers face now and in the future economy. Bringing together trade unions, politicians, academia and partner organisations to discuss the future of work, we'll be looking at how unions, employers and policy-makers can extend worker voice.
We'll also be discussing the initial findings from our forthcoming new report 'WorksForUs', the first report from the Commission on Collective Voice in 21st Century.
REGISTER here - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unions-21-annual-conference-the-future-of-collective-voice-tickets-57002282361
Working Programme:
9:30 - 11:00: The Future of Collective Voice
11:15 -12:30: Future of Digital in Trade Unions
12:30 - 1:30: Lunch
13:30 - 14:45: Innovation in Unions - with sessions on health, public and private sectors
15:00 - 16:00: Future of Work: How do unions and policy-makers respond?
2nd May 2019
BUIRA Conference Hosts 2020
BUIRA Conference Hosts 2020
We are advertising for hosts to organise the BUIRA Annual Conference 2020. This particular year is extremely important for BUIRA’s history as it will be the 70th Anniversary of BUIRA.
Any willing parties, please contact us at BUIRA admin - Kay Pryer and Susanne Laidler at admin@buira.org
We look forward to your response.
BUIRA Stewardship
2nd May 2019
NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS
NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS
The BUIRA Executive Committee will have 2 vacancies as from July 2019.
As discussed and agreed at the AGM in Leeds 2016, the voting system for vacancies on the Executive Committee will be conducted differently.
We now invite all members to forward their interest in becoming a member of the BUIRA Exec Committee to BUIRA admin to Kay Pryer and Susanne Laidler at admin@buira.org.
All members are welcome to apply regardless of career stage i.e. early, senior etc
However, we would strongly encourage women to apply for these positions as they remain to be under-represented on the Committee.
Of course this does not remove open competition and the selection process is still via the membership at the AGM, not the Stewardship or the Executive Committee.
Please include a short biography of no more than 300 words and your reasons for applying for the vacant position.
BUIRA
2nd May 2019
Call for Nominations for Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS)
Call for Nominations for Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS)
BUIRA is a member organization of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), the body that exists in the UK to promote the social sciences.
As part of its membership, BUIRA is able to make nominations for the conferment of Fellowships of the Academy.
The BUIRA Executive would therefore like to invite BUIRA members to nominate individuals who might be put forward for this honour. Not only would this recognise the contribution of the individuals concerned, it would raise the profile of employment relations in the broader social science arena.
More on AcSS can be found at: https://www.acss.org.uk/
And details of the nomination process are at:
https://www.acss.org.uk/membership/making-nomination-fellow/
You will see from this that the 'paramount requirement' of a successful nomination is 'evidence of eminence and impact of the nominee’s contribution to social science'. Formally, this requires a statement of justification and a brief CV.
Could any nominations be sent to BUIRA (admin@buira.org) by Friday 24 May. This will allow the Executive to meet AcSS's next deadline of 7 June.
If you have any queries about the process, please contact the BUIRA Treasurer, Stephen Procter (stephen.procter@newcastle.ac.uk)
2nd May 2019
BUIRA Conference 2019 - Accommodation and Registration Open
Please remember to register for the conference https://www.buira.net/conference/12/register
Information on accommodation can be found here https://ngcb.hotelplanner.com/Event/14df/
Further information on the city is availabled here https://www.newcastlegateshead.com/
2nd May 2019
The BUIRA International & Comparative Employment Relations Study Group
The BUIRA International & Comparative Employment Relations Study Group will be holding the following seminar in May:
Professor Guglielmo Meardi, Warwick Business School
'Brexit, migration and labour market policy: comparative lessons from Canada, Switzerland and Norway'
Time and location: 29th May 2019, 2-4pm in Darwin Building DW0.29/0.30, Keele University
For further information, please contact Carola Weissmeyer at Keele University (c.weissmeyer@keele.ac.uk, 01782 733603)
1st May 2019
University of Manchester's Work & Equalities Institute - Research Seminar: " Psychic Income: Working for Nothing in the Creative Industries "
University of Manchester
Work and Equalities Institute (WEI)
Research Seminar
Psychic Income: Working for Nothing in the Creative Industries
Professor Irena Grugulis (Leeds University Business School)
Date: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Time: 15:30 - 17:00 Hrs (coffee and tea at 15:15)
Venue: Alliance Manchester Business School, Room 3.009
Abstract
Psychic income, the intrinsic satisfaction that people get from work, is traditionally used as an explanation for low pay and seen only in its negative form, as compensation. There is little understanding of what constitutes psychic reward, nor of how and or whom it benefits. This article challenges that. Psychic rewards are positive attributes in their own right. They are also variable, just as financial rewards are, so people can be exploited psychically as well as financially. Drawing on detailed qualitative research into film and TV production it argues that psychic rewards in the form of creative and interesting work was important and often featured in contractual discussions, but that it was the established professionals who were most capable of negotiating for creativity. Here the idea of individual bargaining power is combined with that of psychic reward to distinguish between bargains at different stages in professionals’ working lives. Novices experienced exploitation, those developing skills found work intensified, and established professionals negotiated for earnings and creativity. All professionals were prepared to accept low (or no) pay in exchange for a ‘good credit’, but most of the positive aspects of psychic reward were reserved for the established professionals.
About the Speaker
Irena Grugulis is Professor of Work and Skills at Leeds University Business School. Her research focuses on skills, particularly the way people learn in and at work and the ways in which work may either limit or encourage that learning. Her work has been funded by the ESRC, EPSRC and EU and has been published in Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Work, Employment and Society and Human Resource Management Journal. She has also published two sole-authored textbooks, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Human Resource Management (Sage, 2017) and Skills, Training and Human Resource Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Irena is an ESRC/AIM Services Fellow, an Associate Fellow of SKOPE and an Academic Fellow of the CIPD. She served on the Academic Advisory Panel of the UKCES and contributed to a number of governmental skills enquiries including the Leitch Review and the National Skills Task Force as well as advising the Singaporean Government. She has been both Editor and Joint Editor in Chief of Work, Employment and Society and currently chairs the journal’s Editorial Board.
17th April 2019
Debating the Future of Work: Challenges and Future Prospects
Hilton Hotel Sheffield, 28-29 May 2019
This two-day conference is being organised by the Centre for Decent Work (CDW) at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The recent report by the ILO’s Global Commission on the Future of Work Commission, which represents the culmination of the ILO’s centenary initiative on the future of work, describes ways in which the world of work might be improved. The conference will bring together leading academics and ILO officials to discuss issues raised by the report and other matters that are of central importance to the future of work and the future research agenda. The themes to be addressed will include:
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Ageing, caring and wellbeing;
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Governance, labour administration and social dialogue
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The future research agenda.
The conference will feature invited contributions from researchers based at universities in various countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, the USA and UK, providing opportunities for international sharing of knowledge and experience and also network building. Confirmed speakers include Marian Baird (Sydney), Burt Barnow (George Washington), Nelarine Cornelius (Queen Mary), Pauline Dibben (Sheffield), Janet Fast (Alberta), Anne-Marie Greene (Leicester), Damian Grimshaw (ILO), Christopher King (Texas at Austin), Janine Leschke (Copenhagen), Seamus McGuinness (ESRI), Kirsty Newsome (Sheffield), Peter Nolan (Leicester), Jonathan Payne (De Montfort), Dean Stroud (Cardiff), Jill Rubery (Manchester), David Uzzell (Surrey), Maria-Luz Vega (ILO), Colin Williams (Sheffield), Alex Wood (Oxford), Ryuichi Yamakawa (Tokyo), Susan Yeandle (Sheffield).
Information about how to register can be found at:
http://management.sheffield.ac.uk/events/59751972759/
17th April 2019
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17th April 2019
Next Manchester Industrial Relations Society meeting
Dear all
The next meeting of the Society, which is the Shirley Lerner Memorial Lecture will be Professor Damian Grimshaw, Director of the Research Department at the ILO who will be giving a presentation on The ILO and social justice at work: Reinvigorating its century-old mandate at 6pm on 16th May 2019.
Please find attached the flyer and a map of the venue.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes,
Stephen Mustchin
Secretary
Manchester Industrial Relations Society
17th April 2019
Visions of the workplace:
Visions of the workplace:
missing from the record
Britain at Work (B@W) 1945-95 in association with British Universities’ Industrial Relations (BUIRA) IR History Group and Oral History Society (OHS)
Saturday 11 May 2019, 11am – 16.450pm
University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
(opposite Madame Tussauds and nearly opposite Baker Street tube)
Room C279 (lunch C287)
For further details and to reserve a place, please email Michael Gold (m.gold@rhul.ac.uk) or Linda Clarke (clarkel@wmin.ac.uk)
This year’s, Britain at Work Oral Labour History Day, will focus on the visual and remembering, asking and answering questions about images of work and activism in film, photography and the theatre. Changing technology means that opportunities to record working lives are now available immediately and with the potential of greater democracy. In recent decades, some photographers and workers in film and theatre have pushed at the boundaries recording and disseminating, engaging directly with working people. In this year’s Oral Labour History Day, we are inviting people known for visualising the workplace and struggle to reflect on how their experience links to oral history. There will also be an accompanying exhibition, Cuban Notebook, by Larry Herman, photographer, on display.
B@W is an initiative to capture the memories of people at work between 1945 and 1995, many of which can be found at the TUC Library Collections held at London Metropolitan University, accessible at: (www.unionhistory.info/britainatwork)..
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How seeing and hearing people adds to our multi layered understanding of history |
Sarah Boston |
Linda Clarke |
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Roundtable: brief contributions on participants’ current interest in oral labour history |
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Michael Gold |
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Images of Work – photography · Showing and discussing the film ‘Clydeside 1974-1976’ · The changing nature of photo-ops and Vox Pops |
Larry Herman
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Nick Jones |
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Coffee/Tea break |
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Applying oral history: the role of theatre |
Pam Schweitzer
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Joanna Bornat
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Susan Croft |
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Closing observations |
Joanna Bornat
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About the speakers:
Sarah Boston, award winning documentary film maker, author of the book Women Workers and Trade Unions and trade union member (ACTT/BECTU) since 1967, writes: “Over the decades I have interviewed people on film about their lives. The interviews have included women who had been chain makers in the 1910 strike (BBC 1976): the daughters in Dorothea Lange’s iconic photograph the migrant mother (C4 1989) and four women- Hortensia Allende; Joan Jara; Joyce Horman and Angela Jeira Bachelet - whose husbands were murdered by the Pinochet regime (2005 Fuse Films). Actually seeing and hearing people adds to our multi layered understanding of history. To illustrate. I will use short clips from the above documentaries.”
Dr Susan Croft is Director of Unfinished Histories, a major initiative to record the history of Alternative Theatre in Britain through oral histories and to preserve archives of the alternative theatre movement from the 1960s to the 1980s (see www.unfinishedhistories.com). In 2013-14 she led the HLF-funded project Unfinished Histories Company Links, which culminated in the exhibition and publication Re-Staging Revolutions: Alternative Theatre in Lambeth and Camden 1968-88, as well as curating 15 accompanying events. From 1997-2005 Susan was Senior Curator (Contemporary Performance) at the V&A Theatre Museum, working on the National Video Archive of Performance and curating four major exhibitions. She also established a range of initiatives recording the history of Black and Asian theatre in Britain.
Nick Jones: After a career reporting industrial conflict, former BBC correspondent Nicholas Jones reflects on the changing nature of photo-ops and Vox Pops. More than ever workers in conflict understand that a picture tells the story. But are their voices being heard? Jones fears lazy journalism and editorial cuts are limiting the chances of working people to argue their case through the news media.
Pam Schweitzer has spent the last thirty years developing reminiscence arts work, especially original reminiscence theatre productions, professional and amateur. She founded the Age Exchange Theatre Trust and the Reminiscence Centre and was its Artistic Director from 1983 to 2005. She directs the European Reminiscence Network (1993 to the present), specialising in international reminiscence festivals and conferences, and co-ordinates Europe-wide projects on reminiscence in dementia care, receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Dementia Care Awards 2014. At the University of Greenwich, which awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in 2017, she is developing the Reminiscence Theatre Archive and Website as well as working with students on Reminiscence Theatre and Theatre-in-Education projects. Pam will talk about moving from recorded story into theatre, especially verbatim theatre based closely on interviewees' words. With the example of 'What did you do in the war, Mum?', a show, a book, an exhibition and a website, she will show how the writer, director and cast gather together the interview material and look for a structure to reflect and contain it, transforming it into a professional production seen by thousands on national and international tours. She will describe how students of drama today make original plays of their own from the same interview material recorded 40 years previous.
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Larry Herman, photographer, originally from New York City, immigrated to Britain in 1968 during the Vietnam War. He is an activist in the National Union of Journalists and represents the NUJ on the Cuban Solidarity Campaign National Executive. He is on the organising committee of Britain@Work and is secretary of his tenants’ association in Whitechapel. Herman is currently documenting the struggle to organise an independent trade union in the clothing manufacturing industry in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital. Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow, produced the film Clydeside 1974-1976 about Larry’s work, About the Exhibition: First shown in a 2017 Mayday exhibition in Havana, Cuban Notebook is part of a larger portfolio in the permanent archive of the Confederacion de Trabajadores de Cubanos (CTC - Confederation of Cuban Workers). The photographs, made over a period of four years with the assistance of the CTC, document the working lives of Cubans. As Larry Herman, the photographer, explains: ‘Work defines who we are’. |
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17th April 2019
The Winter of Discontent: Myth, memory and history’
Dear all
On 19 June Manchester Industrial Relations Society in conjunction with the Work and Equalities Institute at the University of Manchester will be holding a seminar focused on the 1978/9 ‘Winter of Discontent’ strike wave. Stephen Mustchin will introduce the seminar and then Tara Martin Lopez will give a talk based on her book ‘The Winter of Discontent: Myth, memory and history’ (see https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781781380291/ )
Synopsis:
Britain’s “Winter of Discontent, 1978-1979” is shrouded in a potent and politically charged myth, one aspect of which revolves supposed “trade union bully boys” bringing down a sympathetic Labour Government and ushering in the era of Thatcherism with their excesses. This discussion, based on research published in Tara Martin Lopez’s The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory, and History, will approach this myth in a threefold way. First, the talk will define the term “myth” and provide background to the essential elements of the myth of the Winter of Discontent. Second, the discussion will then look at how oral histories from the workers themselves, especially women and Black workers, provide a potent source of “counter-memory” that challenges this myth. Three, it will then conclude by exploring the power of marginalized groups’ remembering and participation in key historical events and the implications of this for the historiography of Britain in the late 20th century.
The seminar will be at 4pm-6pm on 19 June in room 3.006a in Alliance Manchester Business School – if you are coming please arrive 10 minutes early and ask for directions at reception.
I hope to see some of you there
Best wishes
Stephen Mustchin
13th April 2019
Debating the Future of Work Hilton Hotel Sheffield, 28-29 May 2019
Debating the Future of Work
This two-day conference is being organised by the Centre for Decent Work (CDW) at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The recent report by the ILO’s Global Commission on the Future of Work, which represents the culmination of the ILO’s centenary initiative on the future of work, describes ways in which the world of work might be improved. The conference will bring together leading academics and ILO officials to discuss issues raised by the report and other matters that are of central importance to the future of work and the future research agenda. The themes to be addressed will include:
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Education, skills and lifelong learning;
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New forms of employment and the future of social protection;
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Diversity and inclusion;
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Ageing, caring and wellbeing;
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Work organisation, technology and job quality;
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Governance, labour administration and social dialogue
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Work and the environment;
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The future research agenda.
The conference will feature invited contributions from researchers based at universities in various countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, the USA and UK, providing opportunities for international sharing of knowledge and experience and also network building.
Further information, including how to register, will be available soon.
2nd April 2019
BUIRA Member Conferred as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
BUIRA Member Conferred as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
The BUIRA Executive would like to offer their congratulations to Professor Mark Stuart, who this week was amongst the 73 leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS). Professor Stuart is a member and former President of BUIRA, and, as the Fellowship recognises, he has made major contributions to research in employment relations and in social science more widely.
The full announcement made by the AcSS can be found here.
As a constituent learned society of the AcSS, BUIRA is able to make nominations for Fellowships. The deadline for the next round of nominations is June 2019. A call to all BUIRA members to propose nominees will be made in April, but anyone wishing to discuss a nomination informally before then should contact the BUIRA Treasurer, Stephen Procter (stephen.procter@newcastle.ac.uk).
1st April 2019
Call For Papers: Inequality and Organizations: Paper Development Masterclass for Early Career Academics and Doctoral Students
Call For Papers: Inequality and Organizations: Paper Development Masterclass for Early Career Academics and Doctoral Students
September 20th, 2019, The York Management School, University of York, UK
Inequality and social justice are long standing concerns in academic research and public policy, affecting individual and collective wellbeing, diminishing growth and productivity and undermining trust in key societal institutions. Organizations, their structures, practices and strategies act both as potential barriers and solutions to this.
This master class, supported by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies in association with The York Management School’s Justice, Ethics and Inequality theme, invites papers of 7,000-10,000 words by 21st June 2019 looking at the relationship between inequality and organizations, their structures, practices and strategies. Themes include but are not limited to: poverty, social mobility, diversity management, precarity, international inequality, corporate social responsibility, employee participation, and industrial democracy.
Participants will present their research to leading scholars in the field and receive detailed critique of their work as well as attending a faculty-led plenary session to provide guidance on researching and publishing work on inequality in world class management journals. Panelists have editorial experience at leading journals including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Sociological Quarterly and Work, Employment and Society, as well as extensive publication, editorial board and peer reviewing experience.
Travel bursaries of up to £175 will be given to successful applicants, intended to include second class travel and hotel costs if necessary. There will also be an optional dinner in York on the 19th September. York is a pleasant cathedral city in the north of England and well worth visiting, while the university campus is in a pleasant out of town location conducive to academic thought and discussion.
Please send any enquires as to suitability to Dr Kevin Tennent (kevin.tennent@york.ac.uk), Dr Joyce Jiang (joyce.jiang@york.ac.uk) or Professor Daniel Muzio (Daniel.muzio@york.ac.uk).
Decisions as to acceptance will be communicated by 31st July 2019.
Masters/Panelists:
Dr Louise Ashley (Royal Holloway)
Professor Penny Dick (University of Sheffield)
Professor Kevin Leicht (University of Illinois)
Professor Jacqueline O’ Reilly (University of Sussex)
Professor Ro Suddaby (University of Victoria and University of Liverpool)
Please send submissions and inquiries to: SAMSMasterClass2019@gmail.com
1st April 2019
BSA Early Career Regional Forum:
BSA Early Career Regional Forum:
Theorising worker-employer relations in the new world of work
4th April 2019, 9:00am-5:00pm
Provisional Programme
This event, sponsored by the British Sociological Association and the Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC), University of Leeds: theorising worker-employer relations in the new world of work brings Early Career Researchers(ECRs) with leading academics to consider contemporary theoretical and empirical understandings of the worker-employer relationship. To see the provisional programme and register for this event, please click here BSA Leeds ECR Forum 4th April 2019 Event Page A small number of bursaries are available to support attendance. For further information, please contact the event organisers, Dr. Jo Cutter (j.cutter@leeds.ac.uk) or Dr. Simon Joyce (s.joyce1@leeds.ac.uk).
29th March 2019
The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level Editors: Berger, Stefan, Pries, Ludger, Wannöffel, Manfred (Eds.)
- An historical and comparative examination of plant-level workers' representations and models of social partnership
- Considers both European and non-European case studies, adding important insight on global trends
- Suggests future directions for sustainable and long-term innovation and growth in the knowledge era.
Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers’ participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers’ participation, representation, and models of social partnership. Value chains, economic life, inter-cultural exchange and knowledge, as well as the mobility of persons and ideas increasingly cross the borders of nation-states. In the knowledge age, the active participation of workers in organizations is crucially important for sustainable and long-term growth and innovation. This handbook offers lessons from historical, global accounts of workers’ participation at plant level, even as it looks forward to predict forthcoming trends in participation.
https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137481917
29th March 2019
In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited
The Trade Union and Employment Forum would like to invite you to an upcoming all-day conference:
In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited
Saturday 27 April 2019, 11am-4pm
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
Fifty years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government and the trade unions over Secretary of State for Employment Barbara Castle’s White Paper In Place of Strife was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. It pitched voluntarist ideas of ‘free collective bargaining’ against ideas of economic planning and public policy concerns about strikes, inflation and restrictive practices. The white paper followed the 1968 Donovan Report and preceded Heath’s Conservative 1971 Industrial Relations Act.
In response to Peter Dorey’s new book on ‘In Place of Strife’, this day has two parts. In the morning there is a historical reassessment of the political episode. In the afternoon, we consider the implications for current Labour Party policy on trade unions, as the Manifesto promises to ‘roll out sectoral bargaining’. The seminar is held at the Modern Records Centre, the largest UK trade union and industrial relations collection, which will also be introduced to us.
Speakers include:
Professor Peter Dorey, Professor of British Politics at Cardiff University and author of Comrades in Conflict: Labour, the Trade Unions and In Place of Strife (2019)
Dr David Lyddon, founding editor of the journal Historical Studies in Industrial Relations
Lisa Martineau, journalist and author of Politics & Power: Barbara Castle, a biography (2011)
Joe Dromey, Deputy Director of the Learning and Work Institute and author (at IPPR) of Power to the People: how stronger unions can deliver economic justice (IPPR 2018)
Professor Peter Ackers, co-editor (with Dr Alastair Reid) of Alternatives to State-Socialism: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave 2016)
Refreshments are provided and the cost is £12 – to register and pay please sign up on Eventbrite
Kind regards
History & Policy
14th March 2019
Norwich Business School University of East Anglia Lecturer in Human Resource Management (ATS856)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Norwich Business School University of East Anglia
Lecturer in Human Resource Management (ATS856)
Lecturer: £42,036 to £48,677 per annum
Norwich Business School is home to a vibrant, diverse, and engaged academic community, ranked amongst the top 10 UK business schools by the quality of its research output (REF 2014), and intent on providing teaching excellence across its wide range of business and management degree programmes in supporting UEA’s award of TEF Gold status.
The School is seeking to recruit an outstanding Lecturer in the field of Human Resource Management (HRM) to join the Employment Systems and Institutions (ESI) group. The group has expertise in HRM, work psychology and labour economics with teaching and research activities that focus on explaining the individual, community and societal impacts of work and employment practice. A full list of areas of interest can be found in the further particulars.
The post is available following ‘Academic Teaching & Scholarship’ (ATS) terms and conditions. ATS staff are expected to provide a leadership contribution to teaching and administration while maintaining subject scholarship but without the requirement to conduct research.
A good first degree or an equivalent qualification is essential; and PhD (or nearing completion), or equivalent experience – this could mean substantial experience at a high level in the sector, and/or equivalent professional qualification. Applicants must satisfy all the essential criteria detailed in the person specification.
The post is available from 20 May 2019 on a full-time indefinite basis.
https://myview.uea.ac.uk/webrecruitment/pages/vacancy.jsf?search=10
Closing date: 3 April 2019.
Any questions or queries please contact Dr Susan Sayce email s.sayce@uea.ac.uk
Dr Susan Sayce
Norwich Business School
Thomas Paine Study Centre Room 2.14
University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park
Norwich NR4 7TJ
Tel: 01603 591286
Email: s.sayce@uea.ac.uk
On the Editorial board for Interdisciplinary perspectives on equality and diversity : An international journal, an open access journal
Gold (Teaching Excellence Framework 2017)
UK Top 15 (The Times/Sunday Times 2017 and Complete University Guide 2018)
World Top 200 (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017)
Top 5 for student satisfaction (National Student Survey 2005-2017. Overall student satisfaction, English mainstream universities)
14th March 2019
EFES NEWSLETTER - MARCH 2019
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14th March 2019
Call for Papers: "Politicizing and Depoliticizing Work in the Contemporary Firm and Beyond" Deadline for submission: April 20, 2019.
14th March 2019
Call for Papers : Theorising worker-employer relations in the new world of work: BSA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Forum
14th March 2019
Labour and Industry: A journal of the social and economic relations of work Special Issue: Call for Papers
Labour and Industry: A journal of the social and economic relations of work
Special Issue: Call for Papers
Geographical labour mobility in the construction sector: Contexts, Patterns, Processes, and Consequences
Guest Editors
Lachlan Barber, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
Michael Haan, Department of Sociology, Western University, Ontario
Barbara Neis, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Nicole Power, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Overview of Special Issue
The construction industry is one of the largest industries globally. It is extremely diverse, encompassing craft, professional and industrial services related to the building, demolition, renovation and maintenance of civil, industrial, residential and commercial built environments. Various forms of employment-related geographical mobility (E-RGM) or labour (im)mobilities are intrinsic to construction work. Despite the opportunities the construction industry presents for understanding the relationship between E-RGM and work, the patterns and dynamics of E-RGM, and their intersections with labour markets, work scheduling, family, community and the larger political economy are underexplored. This is the case despite the size of the construction sector and its association with large public investments in state-commissioned projects and thus, related policy interest. The proposed special issue seeks to address this gap.
We seek papers that shed light on the complex interrelationships between construction (in its different forms), diverse patterns of E-RGM and their intersections with work, family labour markets and community. Topics could include, but are not limited to understanding:
- how the construction industry and collective bargaining enable and regulate mobile work and mobile workers in different contexts;
- the relationship between mobility and health and safety, including wellbeing and work-life balance;
- the relationship between mobility and the application and enforcement of labour standards in construction;
- changes over time in industry mobility regimes and their consequences for labour force composition and labour relations;
- the implications of work mobility for families and communities in the construction industry.
We also welcome enquiries relating to other topics that look at the intersectionality of mobility, labour, industry and built environments.
Key Dates:
Expression of interest, including titles and abstracts, to the co-editors by: 15th April, 2019
Submit your paper via the journal website by 1st September, 2019
Papers finalised and sent to the publisher 1st March, 2019
Publication of the special issue expected in May, 2020
Notes for Prospective Authors
Please contact Michael Haan, Guest Editor, if you any questions about the special issue at mhaan2@uwo.ca. For any queries regarding the submission process please contact the journal’s Systems Manager, Jane Halteh at jane.halteh@gmail.com.
Papers submitted to Labour and Industry are managed using an online submission and review system with Editorial Manager http://www.edmgr.com/rlab/default.aspx. Please check the website for formatting requirements for submissions.
Authors should first register with Editorial Manager and when submitting their papers they should ensure all the author and co-author details are entered correctly. Any authors or co-authors who have previously submitted a paper to Labour and Industry, or reviewed a paper, should already be registered in the system, but they should check their details.
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Labour and Industry is the journal of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ). It is published by Taylor and Francis and accredited by the Chartered ABS Academic Journal Guide (‘2’) and ABDC rankings (‘B’).
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Labour and Industry: A journal of the social and economic relations of work
Special Issue: Call for Papers
Geographical labour mobility in the construction sector: Contexts, Patterns, Processes, and Consequences
Guest Editors
Lachlan Barber, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
Michael Haan, Department of Sociology, Western University, Ontario
Barbara Neis, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Nicole Power, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Overview of Special Issue
The construction industry is one of the largest industries globally. It is extremely diverse, encompassing craft, professional and industrial services related to the building, demolition, renovation and maintenance of civil, industrial, residential and commercial built environments. Various forms of employment-related geographical mobility (E-RGM) or labour (im)mobilities are intrinsic to construction work. Despite the opportunities the construction industry presents for understanding the relationship between E-RGM and work, the patterns and dynamics of E-RGM, and their intersections with labour markets, work scheduling, family, community and the larger political economy are underexplored. This is the case despite the size of the construction sector and its association with large public investments in state-commissioned projects and thus, related policy interest. The proposed special issue seeks to address this gap.
We seek papers that shed light on the complex interrelationships between construction (in its different forms), diverse patterns of E-RGM and their intersections with work, family labour markets and community. Topics could include, but are not limited to understanding:
- how the construction industry and collective bargaining enable and regulate mobile work and mobile workers in different contexts;
- the relationship between mobility and health and safety, including wellbeing and work-life balance;
- the relationship between mobility and the application and enforcement of labour standards in construction;
- changes over time in industry mobility regimes and their consequences for labour force composition and labour relations;
- the implications of work mobility for families and communities in the construction industry.
We also welcome enquiries relating to other topics that look at the intersectionality of mobility, labour, industry and built environments.
Key Dates:
Expression of interest, including titles and abstracts, to the co-editors by: 15th April, 2019
Submit your paper via the journal website by 1st September, 2019
Papers finalised and sent to the publisher 1st March, 2019
Publication of the special issue expected in May, 2020
Notes for Prospective Authors
Please contact Michael Haan, Guest Editor, if you any questions about the special issue at mhaan2@uwo.ca. For any queries regarding the submission process please contact the journal’s Systems Manager, Jane Halteh at jane.halteh@gmail.com.
Papers submitted to Labour and Industry are managed using an online submission and review system with Editorial Manager http://www.edmgr.com/rlab/default.aspx. Please check the website for formatting requirements for submissions.
Authors should first register with Editorial Manager and when submitting their papers they should ensure all the author and co-author details are entered correctly. Any authors or co-authors who have previously submitted a paper to Labour and Industry, or reviewed a paper, should already be registered in the system, but they should check their details.
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Labour and Industry is the journal of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ). It is published by Taylor and Francis and accredited by the Chartered ABS Academic Journal Guide (‘2’) and ABDC rankings (‘B’).
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14th March 2019
IREC 2019
he 2019 IREC conference will be held on 2-3 September at the University of Bielefeld, with the theme ‘Transnational Labour Markets and Industrial Relations’.
The date is immediately before the ILERA European conference in Düsseldorf, which is a 2-hour train ride from Bielefeld.
Details at:
http://uni-bielefeld.de/soz/industrial-relations-in-europe-irec-2019/
8th March 2019
Public Sector Pay and Employment
8th March 2019
Seminar on Public Sector Pay and Employment
Public Sector Pay and Employment
The Centre for Research in Employment and Work (CREW) is holding a symposium on Public Sector Pay and Employment on Wed 20th March 2019 from 1-6 pm at Hamilton House, The University of Greenwich.
This seminar comes at a critical time for the public sector.
SEMINAR:
After nearly a decade of pay restraint in the UK public sector, pay settlements are now being reached at higher levels than the previous 1% limit. The Government has tried to restrict the first post-cap increases, but faced with recruitment and retention difficulties, especially in the NHS, in schools and elsewhere, there are upward pressures that cannot be ignored. This symposium will examine aspects of Government Policy, employee relations and pay and reward strategies in the context of a post-1% world. It will examine pay rises, progression pay, staff shortages and skill requirements across large parts of the public sector.
This symposium brings together a strong range of speakers with expertise on how pay decisions are made and the pressures experienced by negotiators, and key issues related to reward and to the current and future skill requirements in the public sector.
Speakers:
Ken Mulkearn, Director, Incomes Data Research – ‘Pay developments in the public and private sectors 2018/19’.
Nicola Allison, Remuneration adviser to the Office of Manpower Economics – ‘Pay developments in the Pay Review Body world and evidence-based research’.
David Powell, Lead Officer, Pay Policy and Negotiations for the National Education Union – ‘Pay and progression for teachers in schools and academies’.
Paul Wallace, Director of Employment Relations and Reward for the NHS Employers – ‘The current three-year pay agreement and the skill and people requirements of the NHS’.
Simon Pannell, Principal Adviser (Employment and Negotiations) Local Government Association – ‘Pay and skill requirements in local government’.
Professor Ian Kessler, Kings College, London – ‘Reward and skill requirements into the 2020s’.
Chaired by Alastair Hatchett Visiting Fellow, CREW, University of Greenwich. Alastair was previously Head of Pay Services at Incomes Data Services.
21st February 2019
Title Call for Papers : theorising worker-employer relations in the new world of work
Theorising worker-employer relations in the new world of work: BSA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Forum
4th April 2019, Leeds University Business School
Call For Papers & Registration /bsa-early-career-forum-regional-event-theorising-worker-employer-relations-in-the-new-world-of-work/
This event provides an opportunity for ECRs to share their work with leading academics and other researchers investigating collective interest representation and documenting novel and unexpected forms of collective action that shape worker-employer relations. The event will also explore the scope for collaboration to develop research agendas that could advance theoretical and empirical understanding in this area, to consider what, if anything, has emerged to replace formal bargaining institutions between workers and management and how this could be theorised. Confirmed keynote speakers:
· Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio, University of Manchester
· Professor Sian Moore, University of Greenwich
· Professor Mark Stuart, University of Leeds
If you have any questions about the ECR Forum event please contact either Dr Jo Cutter (j.cutter@leeds.ac.uk ) or Dr Simon Joyce (S.Joyce1@leeds.ac.uk )
Deadline for abstracts 7th March 2019 (please us the BSA link above)
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Best wishes
Jo
Dr Jo Cutter AFHEA
Lecturer in Work and Employment Relations
Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change
Leeds University Business School
+44 113 343 0202
https://business.leeds.ac.uk/jo-cutter/
Recent article:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2427.12607
21st February 2019
BUIRA History of Industrial Relations Study Group
Women and Trade Unions
Tuesday 26 March 2019, 3.00pm for 3.20-5.00pm (Tea/ coffee from 3.00)
Room XXX, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS (opposite Madame Tussauds and nearly opposite Baker Street tube)
For further details or to reserve a place, please email Michael Gold (m.gold@rhul.ac.uk) or Linda Clarke (clarkel@wmin.ac.uk).
Programme:
3.00-3.20pm: Tea/ coffee/ refreshments
3.20-3.30: Welcome: Michael Gold and Linda Clarke (Chairs)
3.30-4.00: Nicole Busby and Rebecca Zahn
A Feminist Challenge to the Trade Union Movement
This presentation examines the characteristics of non-standard employment arrangements and work in the gig economy against a historical understanding of the ‘feminisation of work’. It argues that unions prioritise functions they adopt within the labour market and the labour law system, a process based on a gendered understanding of employment that has long limited their ability to respond adequately to women workers. It concludes by considering lessons that could be learned by ‘traditional’ trade unions to broaden their appeal to those working under non-standard arrangements within and beyond the gig economy.
4.00-4.30: Helen McCarthy
Working Mothers and Workplace Activism in Modern Britain
Since the earliest days of industrialisation in Britain, women's relationship with the trade union movement has been an uneasy one. It was commonly assumed that women lacked a strong commitment to paid work and were difficult to organise due to their frequently interrupted employment histories and domestic ties. From the 1880s, a new generation of female trade unionists challenged these assumptions, but wage-earning wives and mothers remained a 'problem' group in the eyes of union leaders and labour intellectuals well into the later twentieth century. This presentation explores the character of workplace activism amongst this group, who made up an increasing proportion of the female workforce from the 1940s, asking how well trade unions adapted to this changing workforce and how far they were willing to advocate for the particular needs of working mothers, most notably around childcare, maternity rights and part-time employment.
4.30-5.00pm: General discussion
5.00pm: Close (followed by drinks until 5.30pm)
The speakers:
Nicole Busby is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Strathclyde, teaching and researching in the areas of Labour and Employment Law, Discrimination Law and European Social Law and Policy. She is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's Scotland Committee.
Helen McCarthy is Lecturer in Modern British History at St John's College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of two books: The British People and the League of Nations: Democracy, Citizenship and Internationalism, 1918-1945 (Manchester University Press, 2011), and Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat (Bloomsbury, 2014) and she is currently completing a third, entitled Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood in Modern Britain (Bloomsbury, 2021). Helen is Managing Editor of the journal Twentieth Century British History, and tweets @HistorianHelen
Rebecca Zahn is Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde. She researches in the field of labour law (national, European and comparative), with a particular focus on collective labour law. She is the author of New Labour Laws in Old Member States (CUP, 2017) and is currently working on a number of historical labour law projects.
21st February 2019
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19th September 2016
Archive
William Arthur (Willy) Brown, 22 April 1945 – 1 August 2019
It is with great sadness that we convey the news that Emeritus Professor Willy Brown passed away unexpectedly on Thursday evening at his home near Cambridge.
Willy’s achievements in the industrial relations and labour economics fields were exceptional. For many decades Willy was an eminent scholar in these fields, not only in the United Kingdom but also internationally. He was arguably one of the most influential academics of his generation in both research and policy formulation.
Willy was Emeritus Master of Darwin College and Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Cambridge. He was previously the Director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick, which gained an international reputation for excellence and influence under his leadership, before becoming the Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to his retirement in 2012.
Willy provided academic leadership through various senior administrative roles at Cambridge. He also served as President of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association from 1986 to 1989 and as a member of the Executive of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (formerly the International Industrial Relations Association) from 1989 to 1995.
Willy held a number of significant government appointments in the UK including foundation member of the Low Pay Commission from 1997-2007 and as a senior member of the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service Council and Panel of Arbitrators.
Willy was the author of many seminal journal articles and books including Piecework Bargaining (1973), The Changing Contours of British Industrial Relations (1981), The Evolution of the Modern Workplace (2009) and The Emerging Industrial Relations of China (2017). In 2002 he was made Commander of the British Empire for services to employment relations.
Willy was an Honorary Professor at Renmin University in Beijing and was instrumental in bringing together international and Chinese scholars to examine developments in Chinese employment relations. In 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sydney in recognition of his significant contributions to industrial relations scholarship and policy in Australia and internationally.
Notwithstanding Willy’s considerable academic accomplishments, his greatest impact may have been through his personal connections and friendships. Willy strived to make the world not only a better place but also a fairer place. In this respect he lived by example. Willy was a truly magnificent person with a unique capacity to speak with anyone on equal terms. He was so selfless, so humble, so generous, and so kind. Willy was greatly loved and will be sorely missed.
- Willy’s former doctoral students
4th August 2019