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IREC 2023 - Call for Abstracts

<p>Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday 28 April 2023. The main topical clusters at IREC 2023 are:</p>

  • Turning points in history and in industrial relations European institutions and perspectives on work, employment and industrial relations Local, sectoral, national, and European labour market institutions and processes in flux: change and resilience Trade union organising and mobilisation in changing times and context Industrial relations and the welfare state Industrial relations and minimum wage The role of employers and business organisations Migration and the implications for the world of work, employment and industrial relations The role of environmental and climate change on industrial relations Labour market segregation: differences and inequalities between different groups Industrial relations in the public sector Trends and effects of collective bargaining The impact and consequences of (de-)globalization on the world of employment and work Worker participation, industrial democracy and labour relations at the workplace level The gig economy, platform work, new technologies and industrial relations New and old forms of industrial conflicts and alternative form of the representation of collective interests The theoretical and methodological challenges in the field of work, employment and industrial relations Provocative, innovative and critical answers to the challenges we are facing nowadays are welcome in order to stimulate new, controversial and alternative ideas. We expect to receive theoretical and empirical (both qualitative and quantitative) papers.