The latest news from BUIRA
Newly published via Palgrave: 'Employment Relations in Financial Services: An Exploration of the Employee Experience After the Financial Crash' by Professor Gregor Gall, University of Bradford
See http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137395375
Synopsis: This book describes and analyses the impact of the 2007-2008 financial crisis upon the working conditions of employees in the financial services sector in Britain. It tells the story of workers being made to pay the price for a crisis that was not of their own making, but nevertheless caused a deleterious impact on their employment security, remuneration and working conditions. Evidence of fighting back against this has been sparse so that the response of employees is best characterised as ‘fright’ (grudgingly working harder and longer), ‘flight’ (leaving the sector through redundancy), and ‘falling in line’ (accepting the diktat of performance managements systems). Through this book we learn the reasons behind this acquiescence, with its detailed attention to topics such as the stunted development of labour unionism, the prevalence of union-management partnerships, and the occurrence of employment insecurity and labour shedding. Providing a valuable insight into the effects of the financial crash, Employment Relations in Financial Services will be useful to academics, students and also trade unionists.
Please consider ordering a copy for your library.
21st July 2017
At the AGM it was agreed that BUIRA would become a member of the Academy of Social Sciences. For more information about the Academy see https://www.acss.org.uk/
The June newsletter can be accessed below.
https://www.acss.org.uk/academy-ebulletin-june-2017/
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21st July 2017
NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS
The BUIRA Executive Committee will have 4 vacancies as from July 2017.
As discussed and agreed at the AGM in Leeds 2016, the voting system for vacancies on the Executive Committee will be conducted differently.
As from this year we now invite all members to forward their interest in becoming a member of the BUIRA Exec Committee to BUIRA admin through admin@buira.org
All members are welcome to apply regardless of career stage i.e. early, senior etc
Please include a short biography of no more than 300 words and your reasons for applying for the vacant position.
2nd May 2017
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TEAMWORKING 21: PUTTING
KNOWLEDGE INTO TEAM DESIGN
Trondheim, Norway, 7 and 8 September 2017
Call for papers
Teams remain important building blocks in organization design, and are set up to perform a wide variety of functions and tasks. IWOT aims for cross-disciplinary interaction and welcomes papers that deal with all aspects of team working from different theoretical perspectives and methodologies.
For IWOT 21 we particularly welcome papers on the following themes:
1. Creating knowledge through teamwork: The creation of knowledge, fundamental to organizational learning and innovation, is a collective activity. Knowledge creation may happen spontaneously as people from different backgrounds come together, or may be planned for by establishing parallel team structures and providing the necessary infrastructure and support. We welcome papers on both knowledge creation processes and how knowledge-creating teams are embedded in the wider organization.
2. Team working in knowledge-intensive organizations: Knowledge-intensive organizations face an environmental complexity that demands cross-functional teams, multi-teams and/or virtual collaboration across loose organizational boundaries. These organizations should be flexible and find ways to support and regulate teams' autonomy contingent on environmental demands and limitations. The multi-team context implies that there are dependencies to other teams, while the distributed context incurs that the teams must deal with geographical dispersion of team members, teams or units.
3. Team working in industry: Ideas about team working have had a major impact on shop-floor work organization through concepts such as socio-technical design, lean production and continuous improvement. In the modern industrial organization, teams are also widely used to perform additional functions such as product design, product development and R&D. Furthermore, project teams are set up to deal with non-routine tasks and complex problem solving such as implementing new technology or exploring new business opportunities. We welcome theoretical reflections and empirical studies on both classical topics and new developments, for instance on how digitalization creates new possibilities for interaction or how calls for sustainability increase the number of team stakeholders and issues that need to be taken into account.
Deadlines and submission
Abstracts should be no more than 750 words. Please forward abstracts to jonas.ingvaldsen@iot.ntnu.no
Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 1
Decisions on acceptance/reject: May 15
Submission of full paper: August 15
About the workshop
For more information about the workshop, please see our web site at: https://iwotblog.wordpress.com/
8th February 2017
I would like to ask to include the announcement of this call for paper in the next BUIRA News:
Call for Papers – Special Issue of ‘Economic and Industrial Demcoracy’ on Trade Unions and Democracy, in memory of Giulio Regeni
The Special Issue is edited by Lucio Baccaro, Chiara Benassi and Guglielmo Meardi. Contributions from/on non-western countries and from early-career researchers are particularly welcome.
For details:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/research/irru/hp-contents/call_for_papers-regeni.pdf
Guglielmo, Lucio and Chiara
3rd February 2017
We would like to invite you to participate in the 2017 European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference, which will bring together many distinguished researchers.
Research Network 17 of the ESA on Work, Employment and Industrial Relations organizes panels and sessions on various topics, themes and debates in the field of work, employment and industrial relations at the ESA 2017 conference.
The conference will be held in Athens (Greece) from 29th August to 1st September 2017.
See the conference website: www.esa13thconference.eu
Participants will find a good opportunity for presenting new research, exchanging information and discussing current issues in the field of Work, Employment and Industrial Relations.
Although we encourage submissions on the general theme of the 2017 ESA conference "(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities", other submissions from the research network field - theoretical or empirical - are highly encouraged.
Abstract submission deadline: 1st February 2017
Abstract submission platform: www.esa13thconference.eu
If you have further questions on the conference, please visit the conference website or contact us directly:
Bernd Brandl, University of Durham (Email: bernd.brandl@durham.ac.uk)
Valeria Pulignano, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (Email: valeria.pulignano@soc.kuleuven.be)
We are looking forward to seeing you in Athens in 2017.
11th January 2017
Labor and Employment Relations Association Call for Symposia & Paper Proposals LERA 2018 Winter Meeting, Philadelphia, PA January 5-7, 2018 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)
For full information: https://lera.memberclicks.net/2018-call-for-proposals-lera-winter-meeting
" Robust Labor Markets and Employment Relationships: Policy and Research"
Submission Deadline: Submit to the LERA website by March 9, 2017 (without exception)
In an era of growing inequality, long-term unemployment, and widespread low-wage work, the LERA Program Committee seeks proposals offering original and high-quality research related to the theme, Robust Labor Markets and Employment Relationships: Policy and Research for its winter meeting held in conjunction with the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA). We also welcome proposals on a broad range of other topics, including labor and employment relations, labor market regulation, social insurance, economic justice, technology and work organization, human resource studies, and organizational practices (such as pensions, health insurance, and work-life balance), as well as topics of current interest or related more generally to the mission of LERA. We encourage submissions from multiple academic disciplines and from the perspectives of multiple stakeholders, including workers, managers, and unions.
Proposed sessions should include a total of 7 participants with either 1 chair, 3 presenters, and 3 discussants OR 1 chair, 4 presenters, and 2 discussants. The Committee also accepts individual paper proposals, although preference is given to session submissions.
In order to give a paper at a LERA session, presenters must be current in their LERA membership. (Join LERA http://www.LERAweb.org/join-lera.) Proposals that include participants with diverse gender, ethnic, institutional and geographic backgrounds will be favored.
Papers presented in LERA symposia at the 2018 LERA Winter Meeting will be invited to be published in the LERA Proceedings. Visit the LERA website for complete information about our Proceedings and submission requirements.
To submit an online proposal, visit https://lera.memberclicks.net/2018-call-for-proposals-lera-winter-meeting. To give the program committee an understanding of the proposed panel, we request that symposia organizers provide:
Proposals must be submitted or reach the LERA Office no later than March 9, 2017. Contact LERAoffice@illinois.edu with questions.
LERA Program Committee for the LERA 2018 Winter Meeting in Conjunction with ASSA/AEA
Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Co-Chair, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Susan Houseman, Co-Chair, W.E. Upjohn Institute; Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland; Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School for Social Research; Barry T. Hirsch, Georgia State University; Alex Mas, Princeton University; Larry Mishel, Economic Policy Institute; Samuel L. Myers, University of Minnesota; Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley; Till Von Wachter, UCLA; William Spriggs, AFL-CIO and Howard University; and Sanford Jacoby, Co-Chair, University of California, Los Angeles (ex officio)
21st December 2016
The cataloguing of the Wedderburn Papers is progressing well. See:
https://warwickmrc.wordpress.com/
BUIRA members contributed generously (the largest single group of individuals - in numbers and money raised) but the appeal is ongoing as the target was not reached. Anyone wishing to contribute can contact the Modern Records Centre directly or me at: paulsmithblist@hotmail.co.uk
25th November 2016
The relationship between migration and work has been transformed in recent decades, most notably through growth of temporary and employer-sponsored visa schemes, the introduction and expansion of cross-border labour mobility zones, and geographical shifts in the main sources and destinations of migration. These changes have produced major challenges for governments, business and labour to balance the perceived disruptive impacts of labour migration with the potential benefits.
The Journal of Industrial Relations (JIR) is publishing a special issue on ‘Migration and Work’ in 2019. Potential contributors are strongly encouraged to present their research at one of the symposia that will be organised to provide feedback and assist in the paper development process prior to submission. The first of these symposia will be held in Sydney in February hosted by the University of Sydney Business School’s Migrants@Work Research Group. We expect that a second symposium will take place in Europe in July 2017 (TBC).
The deadline for online submission of papers to the special issue is 1 October 2017.
Full details regarding the Journal of Industrial Relations special issue is available at:
http://jir.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/JIR_SI.CfP_Migration%20and%20Work.pdf
Questions related to the content and logistics of the symposium should be directed to the organisers, Dr Stephen Clibborn (stephen.clibborn@sydney.edu.au) and Dr Chris F Wright (chris.f.wright@sydney.edu.au).
28th October 2016
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19th September 2016
New BUIRA Study Group: Equality and Diversity in Work and Employment
New BUIRA Study Group: Equality and Diversity in Work and Employment
The BUIRA AGM approved the creation of a new BUIRA study group dedicated to Equality and Diversity in Work and Employment. The group will be jointly convened by Ana Lopes (Newcastle University) and Jenny Rodriguez (University of Manchester).
This dedicated study group aims to be a forum for BUIRA members and associates to discuss issues related to equality and diversity in work and employment, as well as cognate topics (e.g. intersectionality, inclusiveness) and collectively shape the research agenda in this area within the field of industrial and employment relations. The group is looking to develop and sustain a network of academics and practitioners with an interest and work in the area of equality and diversity in work and employment. We invite BUIRA members and associates interested in these topics to join the group’s mailing list, and to send ideas and suggestions for future activities. To join the study group’s mailing list, please e-mail ana.lopes@ncl.ac.uk and jenny.rodriguez@manchester.ac.uk.
21st July 2017