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ERU and @wiserd-research.bsky.social will be hosting the launch of the Handbook on the Sociology of Work, 13:00 on 15 April 2026, in Cardiff University. Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Deadline fast approaching! Submit now to BUIRA annual conference. Please share widely!

BUIRA 2026 *** submissions deadline extended to 27th March *** due to many requests. Details below. Please share: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...

Deadline very close! Submit to BUIRA 2026 before 8th March! 🎉🎉🎉 Details below

*** deadline extended to 8 March *** Submit your abstracts to BUIRA annual conference - details below 🎉🎉🎉

🔶New issue of Futures of Work. This issue explores how borders shape workers’ lives, treating them not as neutral lines but as contested and ideological forces. The articles show how bordering practices structure labour mobility and inequality. futuresofwork.co.uk

My contribution to this great new issue of Futures of Work: "The constitutive and discursive role of borders in neoliberal settler-colonialism" - futuresofwork.co.uk/2026/01/27/t...

BUIRA Annual Conference 2026: Regulation in a Time of Disruption, 23-25 June, Essex University. Call for papers now open: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...

Superb new book on the 1926 General Strike in this 100th anniversary year @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/product/revi...

Our Handbook on the Sociology of Work is out! With Chris Rees, @odulbozkurt.bsky.social and Stephanie Limoncelli, and many truly wonderful chapter authors: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

Anyone interested in attending the LERA May 2026 conference in Minneapolis & doing work on homecare? I'm maybe putting together a panel proposal. www.leraweb.org/call-2026-minn

BUIRA History of IR study group seminar: The Marriage Bar in the UK - Case Studies from the BBC and Teaching. 2 Dec 17:30-19:15 with Kate Murphy and Harriet Samuels www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-marria...

ERU is delighted to start the year with a panel on Digital Work, in collaboration with @cusocsci.bsky.social, featuring Agnieszka Rydik @agnirydzik.bsky.social and Mattia Dessi @mattiadessifrau.bsky.social, Nov 12 at 12:00, @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England] phys.org/news/2025-10...

Save the date!! BUIRA 2026 conference will be held on 23-25 June in the Wivenhoe campus of Essex University

Prof Peter Turnbull gives the presidential address at BUIRA 2025, held at the University of Exeter, Cornwall campus - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP9p...

⏰ Deadline for abstract submission extended until 28 February ⏰ Submit your 500 word abstract via the BUIRA website: www.buira.net/conferences/...

@buiraonline.bsky.social Assessing ‘Fair Work' Scotland’: Scot Gov declared in 2016 Scotland would be ‘fair work’ nation by 2025. This event looks at what has/hasn’t been achieved & why, does Employment Rights Bill change situ & do we still need devolved employment law? www.buira.net/2025/02/05/e...

@buiraonline.bsky.social December 2024 UK strike statistics out this morning: 52,000 days not worked in 64 strikes involving 6,000 workers. Well down on the beginning of 2024 and about the same since August 2024 onwards. What will 2025 bring as stagflation is in prospect?

@buiraonline.bsky.social 1 May 2025 event: Assessing Scotland as a ‘Fair Work Nation’, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow - see range of speakers and other details www.tickettailor.com/events/briti...

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. www.buira.net/conferences/...

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/...