Practitioner-led research in #JIR shares what nearly 2,000 Australian federal public servants think about AI at work. By Osmond Chiu and Katie Higgins (ACPSU) doi.org/10.1177/0022... #Labor #PublicSector #AIatWork #UnionResearch #IndustrialRelations #FutureOfWork @futureofwork.bsky.social

Study of 666 Reykjavik #Marathon runners finds: the deeper your involvement, the higher your well-being. Allegiant runners scored stronger in positive emotion, meaning, & accomplishment. Running = more than fitness. #Running #Wellbeing #perma doi.org/10.1080/0022...

What is working-class power? . Watch Masoud Movahed to know more - “Working-class structural power, associational power, and income inequality” #industrialrelations doi.org/10.1177/0022... 📽️ youtu.be/IXdcuV4ol1Q @labornotes.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @lawcha.bsky.social

Call for nominations - UPCOMING DEADLINE 🗓️ Closing date: 6 November 2025 Send your suggested articles (must have been published in JIR within the past two years) 📩 to [email protected] journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD... #IndustrialRelations #JIR #LaborStudies #WorkAndEmployment #ResearchAwards

How can govts use AI responsibly—with safeguards, training & consultation? Survey of ~2,000 APS staff finds optimism but major worries: lack of input, poor training, unclear rules, #risks to #trust #AIGovernance @designtrustnyc.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Last week, our Co-Editor-in-Chief, Prof Lucy Taksa, represented the #JIR at the 2025 #ALERA Conference in Brisbane, where she chaired a panel addressing the question: Will workplace relations become artificially intelligent? #industrialrelations #AI #employmentrelations #conference #ALERA2025

New research by Judith S. Zhu & Michael Barry offers a historical review of Employer Associations (EAs) in China, showing how their capacity to act independently depends heavily on the political regime @ilr-rit.bsky.social @naceweb.org @foreignpolicy.com doi.org/10.1177/0022... #JIR2025

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS As part of its 65th anniversary in 2024, the Journal of Industrial Relations (ALERA Sage) launched two awards to honor outstanding scholarship in the field: 🏅 The JIR Fran Hayes Award 🌍 The JIR Joe Isaac Award 📩 to [email protected] 🗓️ Closing date: 6 November 2025

Visit the #JIR YouTube channel—it’s full of content perfect for classroom use or professional practice. You’ll find interviews with renowned scholars, case studies, and more. www.youtube.com/@JournalofIn... #videoabstracts #JIR #industrialrelations

In this clip, Australia’s government history of climate action is framed as inertia—not bold reform. Adaptation must proceed, not stall. 📹 youtube.com/clip/UgkxM1Y... @350.org @clientearth.bsky.social #JIR #industrialrelations #Australia #climateaction ,

Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne examine how trade unions in the UK and Norway influence digitalization in food and drink manufacturing --> union presence at the workplace matters 💯 doi.org/10.1177/0022... #JIR2025 #digitalization #TradeUnions @etuc-ces.bsky.social @cfdt.fr @cgt.fr @tuc.org.uk

Read the review by Nathan Burke of Fulfilling the Pledge: Securing Industrial Democracy for American Workers in a Digital Economy by Roger C. Hartley here doi.org/10.1177/0022... #MIT #bookreview #industrialrelations

New article "argues that the increased autonomy afforded to employees by remote work is paradoxical. Many interviewees worked longer hours and experienced work intensification, as well as an unwelcome blurring of the work and home spheres" 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0022... #psychosocialworkplacehazards

Peter Turnbull’s review on Richard Hyman’s Concise Introduction to Employment Relations (Edward Elgar) is now available on the Journal of Industrial Relations 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0022... #bookreview #industrialrelations

What can workers do to fight and reduce climate emissions and global warming youtube.com/clip/UgkxKDV... 📄 #JIR article Legal obstacles and possibilities for environmental bargaining in Australia. doi.org/10.1177/0022... @350.org @insideclimatenews.org @keertigopal.bsky.social #climateaction

J. Mijin Cha and Hunter Moskowitz's new article doi.org/10.1177/0022... explains how recent union support for green policies is defined by intra-labor coalitions, i.e. alliances focused on securing good jobs and labor standards in the renewable energy sector. #ClimateJobs #Unions

Journal of Industrial Relations #JIR New Volume! Volume 67 Issue 4, September 2025 journals.sagepub.com/toc/JIR/curr... @sagepub.com @deakinuniversity.bsky.social @bjireditor.bsky.social @gigeconomypodcast.bsky.social

This piece by Miguel Martínez Lucio and Martí Lopez-Andreu www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/06/clos... argues that labor market intermediaries (like agencies and platforms) play a hidden but powerful role in sustaining inequality. #genderpaygap #workplacejustice @workequalities.bsky.social

What happens when climate change collides with labor law & workplace safety? Eugene Schofield-Georgeson and I discuss our recent articles from @jirjournal.bsky.social on how frameworks are adapting—or failing to adapt—to the realities of climate disruption youtu.be/-Vh17Whrygs?...

A kind reminder of some #ALERA2025 key dates! aleraconference.com.au #Industrialrelations #conferences

doi.org/10.1177/0022... by Tom Barratt M, Alex Veen, and Caleb Goods offers insights into what are some of the institutional and legal barriers to transforming precarious gig work into secure employment ⁉️ #GigEconomy #IndustrialRelations #FutureOfWork

How are Saudi firms managing rising female labor power? doi.org/10.1177/0022... reveals tensions, shifts, & new HR practices emerging as women reshape the workplace #GenderWork #SaudiArabia #HR #FeministStudies @openDemocracy.bsky.social @dissentmag.bsky.social @feministreview.bsky.social

Journal of Industrial Relations (2025, Vol. 67, Issue 3) now out! journals.sagepub.com/toc/JIR/current #LaborStudies #IndustrialRelations #TransnationalOrganizing #PlatformWork #UnionResearch #WorkplaceEquity #SocialDialogue #GigEconomy #JIR

Why has income inequality surged in so many countries—even where unions still exist? This doi.org/10.1177/0022... by Masoud Movahed compares 50+ years of data across postindustrial countries to find out. #IndustrialRelations #FutureOfWork @jacobinmag.bsky.social @workplacefairness.bsky.social

Could welfare improve not just workers’ lives, but productivity too? Read Debasree Dhar's doi.org/10.1177/0022... #IndustrialRelations #JIR2025 #CoalMines #LaborHistory #IndianHistory #WorkplaceEquity #PublicHealth #IndustrialRelations @lawcha.bsky.social‬ @employmentblawg.bsky.social‬

🇳🇬 New study: #Nigerian #platformworkers—like drivers & freelancers—are creating informal ways to be heard where laws & platforms fall short. 📖 doi.org/10.1177/0022... #Fairness #GlobalSouth #IndustrialRelations #GigEconomy #DecentWork #Nigeria fairwork.bsky.social gigworkerscollective.bsky.social

Insights on psychosocial workplace hazards #scholars 👥 #practitioners youtube.com/shorts/GkHTn... #employmentrelations #industrialrelations #JIR

🌟 Excited about the future of work and Industry 5.0? The program for the **Industry 5.0 Conference** is now live! 🌍💡 🔗 Check it out! workplaceinnovation.eu/event/advanc... Irish College, Leuven, Belgium 📅 16th-17th June 2025 -

As a journal committed to advancing research on the dynamics of work, employment, and industrial relations globally (see our aims and scope journals.sagepub.com/overview-met... ) 📣 #JIR is interested in updates and engaging with the themes of the 113th International Labour Conference in Geneva.

👉 What happens when workplaces harm our mental and emotional health? Watch the presentation youtu.be/hcUD3rIWOTQ 📣 Special Issue Launch Psychosocial Workplace Hazards 📘 Read the full issue: journals.sagepub.com/home/JIR #IndustrialRelations #WorkHealthAndSafety

Mark your calendars for the LERA 77th Annual Meeting 📅 taking place June 12-15, 2025, at the Westin Seattle in Seattle, WA! "Promoting Authentic Dialogue in Polarized Times," will explore critical conversations in today’s divided world 🗺️ buff.ly/4hUKWyT #IndustrialRelations #JIR #conferences

📵 What is the Right to Disconnect⁉️ Australia’s new right to disconnect, now embedded in the Fair Work Act, has sparked heated debate. Watch full interview youtu.be/vy5sTE00ppk 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/0022... #RightToDisconnect #FutureOfWork #WorkplaceWellbeing

My colleague @huwthomas.bsky.social on our Journal of Industrial Relations call for papers on the intersection between industrial relations and international relations. Extended abstracts due this week!

Can #Facebook drive internal #democracy in unions? New research shows how online activism in Denmark forced unions to adapt—and innovate—strengthening union democracy from within. 👉 Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/0022... @jacobin.bsky.social @dataandpolitics.bsky.social #unions

📣 The Journal of Industrial Relations is offering a 2-year editorial mentorship for early-career researchers. ℹ️ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Get trained in peer review, shadow editors, and grow your academic network through direct editorial experience. 🗓️ Apply by June 1 📩 [email protected]

How do migration policy, ethnic networks, and subcontracted labor regimes shape the lives of Bangladeshi workers in Italian shipyards—and what does that tell us about the hidden forces behind global production? ‼️ doi.org/10.1177/0022... #IndustrialRelations #Migrantpolicy

🌍 Call for Papers: Workplace Geopolitics How are global tensions reshaping work? #CFP 📽️ youtu.be/YQF89iRzeI4 crimt.bsky.social globalworkers.bsky.social sociologypapers.bsky.social #IndustrialRelations #LaborStudies #WorkplaceGeopolitics #Geopolitics

Video of "Workplace Geopolitics" webinar with @crimt.bsky.social & @buiraonline.bsky.social, ft. @daliagf.bsky.social, @valepuligna.bsky.social, @huwthomas.bsky.social & more discussing @jirjournal.bsky.social CfP on industrial relations & international relations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bqf...

🎥 Just released: Video interview with Joseph Catanzariti AM, reflecting on 11 years as Vice President of Australia’s Fair Work Commission. Read the article ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/0022... Watch the video 🎬 youtu.be/swEMMOxJrho?... #FairWork #IndustrialRelations #Australia

🦋#skyscholars #JIR @jirjournal.bsky.social @sagepub.com deadline coming up!

📣 The Journal of Industrial Relations is offering a 2-year editorial mentorship for early-career researchers. ℹ️ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Get trained in peer review, shadow editors, and grow your academic network through direct editorial experience. 🗓️ Apply by June 1 📩 [email protected]

🧠⚙️ Launch of Special Issue Psychosocial Workplace Hazards and Industrial Relations 🕕 May 7, 2025 | ⏰ 6:00–7:30 PM (AWST) 🎟 FREE for Industrial Relations Society of Western Australia Members 📣 W/ Dr. Alexis Vassiley and contributors from across the field. journals.sagepub.com/toc/jira/0/0...

"Evidence suggests hazards are widespread although exposure/risk appears higher amongst some groups of service workers and the precariously employed." ➕ on this important research next 🗓️ May 7 | 6–7:30 PM AWST 📍 UWA Business School Register with #IRSWA www.linkedin.com/company/indu...

🧠⚖️ Psychosocial hazards are not just a health issue—they’re a matter of power, regulation, and justice at work. 🏛️📢💼 doi.org/10.1177/0022... Alexis Vassiley, Tom Barratt, Kantha Dayaram and John Burgess elations-association buiraonline.bsky.social cira.ca #IndustrialRelations

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 crimt.net/en/activites...

🚨 #JIR SPECIAL ISSUE 𝑷𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔: 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 doi.org/10.1177/0022... Alexis Vassiley , Tom Barratt, Kantha Dayaram and John Burgess #industrialrelations #hazards #workplace

📣 Call for Papers – Special Issue of the Journal of Industrial Relations Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations and International Relations journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

LERA 77th Conference ‼️ 🗓️ June 12–15, 2025 (Thurs–Sun) 📍 Westin Seattle, Seattle, WA Program is now live: leraoffice.org/php/program.php 🎟️ Early-bird registration deadline: March 25, 2025, register by May 30, 2025 #LERA2025 #FutureOfWork #IndustrialRelations #EmploymentRelations

Exploring Belgian Trade Unions’ Stance on Universal Basic Income 🔗 Read the full study doi.org/10.1177/0022... #UniversalBasicIncome #TradeUnions #SocialWelfare #LaborStudies #Belgium bien.bsky.social ilo.bsky.social etuc.bsky.social economicsecurity.bsky.social tuac.bsky.social

🧠⚙️ Launch of Special Issue Psychosocial Workplace Hazards and Industrial Relations 🕕 May 7, 2025 | ⏰ 6:00–7:30 PM (AWST) 🎟 FREE for Industrial Relations Society of Western Australia Members 📣 W/ Dr. Alexis Vassiley and contributors from across the field. journals.sagepub.com/toc/jira/0/0...