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 8^th 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:

• Labour market transitions, skills and lifelong learning;

• New forms of employment and the future of social protection;

• Diversity and inclusion;

• Ageing, caring and wellbeing;

• Work organisation, technology and job quality;

• Governance, labour administration and social dialogue

• Work and the environment;

• 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

EFES NEWSLETTER - APRIL 2019

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Subscribe  /  Unsubscribe  /  Membership                                                        EFES NEWSLETTER - APRIL 2019 New Record Year for Employee Share Ownership in Europe JUST RELEASED The new "Annual Economic Survey of Employee Share Ownership in European Countries" is just released More information   in partnership with New Record Year for Employee Share Ownership in Europe New record year for employee share ownership in Europe, with nearly 400 billion Euro held by employees in their company or 3.11%. More and more European companies are organizing employee share plans. In 2018, 87.3% of all large European companies had employee share plans of all kinds, while 52.3% had "broad-based" plans for all employees. Their number increased by 3 to 4% on average each year since 2006, a solid growth. The rise is back for the number of employee shareholders, with 7.5 million people in large European companies; if we add one million employee shareholders in SMEs, the total figure reaches 8.5 million. However, the decline in the democratization rate of employee share ownership has still to be stopped. Following the crisis, some European countries (including the UK) had chosen for stronger incentive policies, promoting employee share ownership and long term savings as an investment for the future. Instead of that, some other countries (including France) had chosen to reduce public spending and to support household consumption, while incentives for long term savings and for employee share ownership were sacrificed. This had a strong impact on the democratization rate of employee share ownership in Europe (the proportion of employee shareholders amongst all employees), leading to a divorce between continental Europe and the UK. A sharp drop below 20% was observed on the continent. On the contrary, the democratization rate had risen to more than 25% in the UK. After the negative phase from 2009 to 2013, policy decisions are positive again in most European countries. This led to a rebound of the democratization rate to 38% in France  following the "Macron Law", illustrating the high elasticity of employee share ownership to fiscal incentives. However negative factors are still prevailing in some countries. Germany gives the picture of the dramatic impact of such policies on the democratization rate of employee share ownership, with less than 13%. On the other hand, the UK and France are the only European countries showing a recent but significant positive dynamics of the majority-employee-owned sector. The number of such companies increased from 36 in the UK in 2014 to 80 in 2018, mainly due to the impact of the new Employee Ownership Trust scheme implemented in 2014. In France, it is mainly due to the multiplication of combined Management and Employee Buy-Outs. Press Review We have a selection of 22 remarkable articles in 8 countries in March 2019: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom, USA. Belgium: EASI is employee-owned and for the fifth time in a row "Best Place to Work". Canada: Canadian government will cap the use of the preferential tax treatment on stock options. France: How the new "Pacte Law" will impact employee share ownership and savings schemes. Employee share ownership for start-ups. First employee share plan for Iliad. New workers co-operative linked to rescue plans. Germany: 300.000 employee shareholders for Siemens through free share awards. Italy: First employee share plan for Generali. Poland: New employee share plan for XTPL. UK: British Airways unions call for the re-introduction of an employee share ownership scheme. New firms sold to Employee Ownership Trusts. John Lewis cuts staff bonuses to lowest level in 65 years. USA: New companies sold to ESOPs. Colorado launches initiative to boost employee ownership of businesses, "looking to make Colorado the Delaware of employee ownership". The full press review is available on:               http://www.efesonline.org/PRESS REVIEW/2019/March.htm    Your support Why? Amount in Euro: 5.00 2.00 10.00 20.00 50.00 100.00 200.00 500.00 1000.00 A political roadmap for employee ownership in Europe The EFES needs more members. Download the EFES membership form What's new on the EFES website? EFES NEWS distribution: 200.000    With best regards         Marc Mathieu Secretary General EFES - EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP FEAS - FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DE L'ACTIONNARIAT SALARIE Avenue Voltaire 135, B-1030 Brussels Tel: +32 (0)2 242 64 30 - Fax: +32 (0)2 791 96 00 E-mail: efes@efesonline.org Web site: www.efesonline.org EFES' objective is to act as the umbrella organization of employee owners, companies and all persons, trade unions, experts, researchers, institutions looking to promote employee share ownership and participation in Europe.

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 16^th 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)..

Programme

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.

17th April 2019

Register now for BUIRA 2019 confererence in Newcastle

Members are advised that registration is now open for the 2019 conference here and that accommodation can also now be booked through the following link here.

4th 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:

• Education, skills and lifelong learning;

• New forms of employment and the future of social protection;

• Diversity and inclusion;

• Ageing, caring and wellbeing;

• Work organisation, technology and job quality;

• Governance, labour administration and social dialogue

• Work and the environment;

• 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 20^th, 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 21^st 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 19^th 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 31^st 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

Vacancy at UCD

For more information see:

http://www.ucd.ie/adastrafellows/

29th March 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

14th March 2019

Norwich Business School University of East Anglia Lecturer in Human Resource Management (ATS856)

14th March 2019

EFES NEWSLETTER - MARCH 2019

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Subscribe  /  Unsubscribe  /  Membership                                                        EFES NEWSLETTER - MARCH 2019 Congratulations from the Irish Parliament The Irish Parliament likes this newsletter, he let us know by letter. Every month, this newsletter highlights the significant facts of employee share ownership worldwide, as well as European policies. The monthly press review is a fabulous source of information. It sheds light on proven facts and helps sort out fake news, delivering a story full of novelties and twists. The progress and benefits of employee share ownership are becoming more and more evident. Letter from the Irish Parliament Press review We have a selection of 21 remarkable articles in 5 countries in February 2019: France, Ireland, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA. France: Employee share ownership is spreading in Intermediate Size Businesses. The coming "Pacte Law" will fail to provide employee shareholders with financial advisory solutions. New employee share plan for Total, for Schneider Electric. Employee buy-outs for Securimut, for Handi-Wagala. Ireland: Fears grow over Brexit threat to Irish staff share schemes. South Africa: The ANC's election manifesto endorses employee share ownership. UK: British Airways unions call for the re-introduction of an employee share ownership scheme. New Employee Ownership Trusts for Wales' leading TV production company. USA: ESOPs increase optionality for business owners. Publix supermarket is the largest employee-owned company in the world. Allowing employees to own company shares is a powerful retention tool.  The full press review is available on:               http://www.efesonline.org/PRESS REVIEW/2019/February.htm    Your support Why? Amount in Euro: 5.00 2.00 10.00 20.00 50.00 100.00 200.00 500.00 1000.00 A political roadmap for employee ownership in Europe The EFES needs more members. Download the EFES membership form What's new on the EFES website? EFES NEWS distribution: 200.000    With best regards         Marc Mathieu Secretary General EFES - EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP FEAS - FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DE L'ACTIONNARIAT SALARIE Avenue Voltaire 135, B-1030 Brussels Tel: +32 (0)2 242 64 30 - Fax: +32 (0)2 791 96 00 E-mail: efes@efesonline.org Web site: www.efesonline.org EFES' objective is to act as the umbrella organization of employee owners, companies and all persons, trade unions, experts, researchers, institutions looking to promote employee share ownership and participation in Europe.

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 1^st September, 2019

Papers finalised and sent to the publisher 1^st 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.

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 1^st September, 2019

Papers finalised and sent to the publisher 1^st 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.

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

ILERA announcement – 5 March 2019

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 20^th 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 7^th 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

Employee voice from different perspectives

7th February 2019

PhD Scholarship: Digitalisation and the Future of Work: Platforms, Networks, and Workers

PhD Scholarship: Digitalisation and the Future of Work: Platforms, Networks, and Workers

This PhD scholarship offers three years’ funding, including tuition fees and a stipend of approximately £15,000 per year for candidates wishing to commence their studies in September 2019. The successful candidate will also receive a generous research support and conference allowance. You will also have access to a robust doctoral research training programme, dedicated research resources, training in transferable skills, visiting speaker seminar programme, and associate with existing research centres and groups.

The Project

The gig economy and platform-based working is increasingly being debated as an illustration of the impact of technology on the future world of work. This project will investigate platform-based working as a form of work organisation and investigate working practices and experiences. The focus will be on the under-researched area of intermediary firms, who have emerged to provide a bridge between workers and clients, filtering work requests to the platform. These emerging networks create long supply chains, many of which contain the features of fragmented and globally dispersed production. The research will adopt a case study approach to enable an in-depth exploration of the key issues. Research will involve the network itself as well as the experiences of workers in order to study the interaction and complex links between the two. Detailed research will enable an appreciation of the complex social units in terms of organising and operational principles, governance issues, power and social relations, and working conditions.

The candidate will be supervised from within the Work and Equalities Institute (WEI), alongside the Institute’s broader research interests concerning the future of work.

31st January 2019

Title: Event: 150 Years of the Trades Union Congress: The Future of Work and the Future of Unions

Title: Event: 150 Years of the Trades Union Congress: The Future of Work and the Future of Unions

On Monday 11^th February, we are holding an event to launch of a special issue of Employee Relations co-edited by Dr. Andy Hodder (University of Birmingham) and Paul Nowak (Deputy General Secretary, TUC). The special issue of the journal reflects on 150 years of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and examines the challenges facing trade union movements today.

A roundtable of key academic figures in the field of industrial relations will consider: the relationship between the decline in collective bargaining and the rise in wage inequality; the UK’s productivity problem and the extent to which this may be resolved through the introduction of the new technologies of artificial intelligence; various new forms of institutional experimentation to regulate the employment relationship and strengthen employment protections; the TUC’s efforts to embed organising in the trade union movement.

The event will include a drinks reception and a question and answer session.

Location

Alan Walters Building: 223 Harvard Theatre, Harvard Lecture Theatre

Date

Monday 11th February 2019 (18:00-20:00)

For more information and to register, see here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/business/events/2019/01/the-future-of-work-and-the-future-of-unions.aspx

31st January 2019

Public Sector Pay and Employment

31st January 2019

Industrial Relations Research Unit / OHRM Warwick Business School University of Warwick Seminar Series

Industrial Relations Research Unit / OHRM
Warwick Business School University of Warwick
Seminar Series
Seminars are held from 2.00 to 3.30pm with refreshments to follow
TERM 2 2018/19:
Wednesday 6th February Matthew Amengual – University of Oxford
‘Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains:
Do Buyers Respond to Factory Audits?’
Room: 2.214, Warwick Business School
Wednesday 13th March Chunyun Li – London School of Economics and Political Science
‘From Insurgency to Movement:
An Embryonic Counterhegemonic Labor Movement in South China’
Room: 2.214, Warwick Business School
TERM 3 2018/19:
Wednesday 1st May Heather Connolly – University of Leicester
‘Representing Precarious Workers in Europe’
Room: TBC, Warwick Business School
Wednesday 22nd May Maria Gavris – University of Warwick
‘Changes in National Systems of Labour Administration’
Room: TBC, Warwick Business School
Wednesday 5th June Ana Lopes – Newcastle University
‘Women’s Participation in Trade Unions’
Room: TBC, Warwick Business School

31st January 2019

**Abstract submission deadline extended to 28th January 2019**

16th January 2019

Work and Equalities Institute, The University of Manchester Seminar series January to May 2019

Work and Equalities Institute, The University of Manchester

Seminar series January to May 2019

Dr Emily Yarrow, University of Edinburgh Business School

‘An unequal opportunity? Female academics’ experiences of research evaluation in the UK'

Date:              Wednesday 16^th January 2019

Time:              15:30 – 17:00 Hrs (coffee/tea at 15:15)

Venue:          Alliance Manchester Business School East B7

Dr Edward Yates, Sheffield University Management School

Young workers and local economic development strategies in Greater Manchester

Date:              Wednesday 6^th February 2019

Time:              15:30 – 17:00 Hrs (coffee/tea at 15:15)

Venue:          Alliance Manchester Business School 3.008

Dr Jean Jenkins, Cardiff Business School

Title to be confirmed

Date:              Wednesday 13^th March 2019

Time:              15:30 – 17:00 Hrs (coffee/tea at 15:15)

Venue:          Alliance Manchester Business School 3.008

Prof Irena Grugulis, Leeds University Business School

Title to be confirmed

Date:              Wednesday 8^th May 2019

Time:              15:30 – 17:00 Hrs (coffee/tea at 15:15)

Venue: Alliance Manchester Business School 3.008

11th December 2018

The School of Management at Swansea University are recruiting

he School of Management at Swansea University are recruiting in the area of People and Organisations:

Lecturer in People & Organisations: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php?nPostingID=29518&nPostingTargetID=44292&option=52&sort=DESC&respnr=1&ID=QHUFK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NXD&LOV4=7813&LOV5=9450&JOBADLG=UK&Resultsperpage=20&lg=UK&mask=suext

Senior Lecturer in People & Organisations: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php?nPostingID=29538&nPostingTargetID=44313&option=52&sort=DESC&respnr=1&ID=QHUFK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NXD&LOV4=7813&LOV5=9450&JOBADLG=UK&Resultsperpage=20&lg=UK&mask=suext  

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Geraint Harvey (g.harvey@swansea.ac.uk).

11th December 2018

Doctoral program in Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University (USA

11th December 2018

The Emerging Industrial Relations of China’, edited by William Brown and Chang Kai

The Emerging Industrial Relations of China’, edited by William Brown
and Chang Kai, published by Cambridge University Press, is now available
in paperback at £22.99.
Described as a ‘first-rate volume’ by Bruce Kaufman in Relations
Industrielles/Industrial Relations: ‘The major paradox they draw
attention to is that China and its government leaders have opted for a
policy of greater collective organization of industrial relations in
reaction to intensified market pressures and worker dissatisfaction,
while most other nations of the world have gone in the opposite
direction of deregulation and individualization of employment relations.’

11th December 2018

ILERA 12th European Congress 2019

In September 2019 the International Labor and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) will hold its 12th European Congress in Düsseldorf, Germany. The theme of the congress will be “Perspectives of Employment Relations in Europe” and thematic tracks will focus on issues such as equality & poverty, the regulation of labor, industrial democracy & workers’ voice as well as the quality of work & digitalization. The congress website and call for paper can be accessed at www.ilera2019.eu .

11th December 2018

BUIRA Conference 2019 Uncertain Futures/Fractured Worlds

BUIRA Conference 2019

Uncertain Futures/Fractured Worlds:

The future of employment regulation and rights after Brexit.

Newcastle University Business School, 1-3 July 2019

Call for papers now open

As the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union occurs only months prior to our conference next year, a major question we need to discuss will be around the uncertain future of employment legislation and regulation post Brexit. 

A substantial amount of UK employment legislation is grounded in EU law.  Does this mean that the withdrawal from the EU will mean UK employment rights currently guaranteed by EU law would no longer be so guaranteed?  Theresa May had confirmed that workers’ existing legal rights will be guaranteed during her period in office – but her position has looked untenable for some time now, even more so recently.  A post-Brexit government could seek to amend or remove any of these.  Of course, what would be amended or removed is a much more open question, since it is affected by the political ideology of a future Government. We are fully aware of previous Conservative administrations’ long-standing opposition to many EU social rights.

What then, could be the effect on individuals who rely directly on EU law (i.e. the right to equal pay, agency workers, working time rights)?

Empirical (both quantitative and qualitative), analytical, conceptual and methodological papers are all welcome. We would particularly appreciate submissions from early career researchers and doctoral students. Papers concerning topics under the following headings will be particularly welcome:

• Migrant workers from the EU and their position
• Challenges for Trade Unions
• Implications for Equality and Diversity
• The EU and the (future of the) Social Dimension

Submission details

Abstracts of papers should be submitted via https://www.buira.org/admin/submissions/create

Deadline for submission of abstracts: Monday, 14^th January 2019.

Abstracts are refereed anonymously by BUIRA Executive Committee members.

23rd November 2018

BUIRA 2019 Stream/ Panel Event – Progressive Employers and Positive Employment Relations.

BUIRA 2019 Stream/ Panel Event – Progressive Employers and Positive Employment Relations – Newcastle – 1-3 July 2019.

Current trends in radical and pluralist industrial relations tend to emphasise employee organizing from below and trade unions as independent social movements, on the one hand; or state regulation from above, on the other (see Heery 2016). In the latter spirit, the 2017 Labour Party manifesto promised to 'roll out sectoral collective bargaining'. The missing link is these narratives is the progressive employer, or what Hyman (2015) has termed, 'good capitalism'. Even the large Partnership literature (see Johnstone 2015), has tended to focus on trade union behaviour.

Organized workers need stable employer recognition for unions to thrive (Simms 2013), something it's almost impossible for the state to impose without substantial employer support. As Ackers (2015) argues, trade union legitimacy power rests on a diamond of stakeholders: employees, the state (political parties), public opinion and employers. Arguably, the last play an important role in shaping the others. More widely, good working conditions and policies to counter the spread of cut-price employment policies like zero-hour contracts, depend on labour market leadership by progressive employers, unionised and non-union.

Progressive employers, such Lever and Cadbury, played a central role in the C20th rise of joint regulations (Clegg et al 1964, Clegg 1985, 1994). British 'Paternalists' not only championed good stable working conditions and employee welfare, but as 'sophisticated moderns' (Fox 1974) promoted and spread trade unions and pluralist IR among the 'standard modern' mainstream. Public employers also spread good employment practice.

This stream/ panel (depending on numbers) invites papers on any aspect of the progressive employer, past, present or future. We are particularly interested in examples of active agency in Developing Positive Employment Relations ((Johnstone & Wilkinson 2016), which challenge the current picture of employers as passive receivers of employment rules. Any employer that promotes good employee working conditions will qualify!

Peter Ackers & Stewart Johnstone

The organisers are happy to discuss ideas for potential submissions peter.ackers1@virginmedia.com; stewart.johnstone@ncl.ac.uk

23rd November 2018

Is whistleblowing the new normal?

HE UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH UNIT /
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON EMPLOYMENT AND WORK
 
 Is whistleblowing the new normal?
 
Wednesday 12^th December 2018
TIME: 15.00 – 18.00
 
VENUE:  Room HH102, Hamilton House, Park Vista, Greenwich SE10 9LZ
 
In the context of whistleblowing, policy-makers have recently started to shift the focus from the person of the whistleblower towards the recipients of whistleblowing, i.e. those whom whistleblowers call upon to stop wrongdoing. Increasingly, organisations are implementing speak-up policies through procedures, training, and in-house or outsourced hotlines. Is this a new form of managerialism? Is it, as some voice scholars wrote recently (Barry & Wilkinson, 2016 BJIR), "pro-social or pro-management"? On the other hand, research shows that external whistleblowing is most often a result of badly managed internal whistleblowing. Hence, the way organisations institutionalise whistleblowing warrants our attention. This seminar discusses the institutionalisation of whistleblowing, around four pieces of recent research.

Dr Erik Mygind du Plessis, Copenhagen Business School.
"Speaking truth through power: Conceptualizing internal hotlines using Foucault's dispositive."

Prof David Lewis, Middlesex University.
"What information about whistleblowing do the FTSE top 100 firms post on their website?"

Dr Mahaut Fanchini, University of Paris-Dauphine.
“The co-construction of whistleblowing: How expectations of the recipient frame ‘acceptable’ whistleblowing narratives."

Arron Phillips, University of Greenwich.
"Do trade union members blow the whistle differently? Exploring data from a UK whistleblower advice line."

 
Chaired by Dr Wim Vandekerckhove, University of Greenwich

Speakers:
 
Erik Du Plessis is assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. His research explores ways in which whistleblowing is institutionalised. Previous studies include whistleblowing in the context of Danish trade unions.

David Lewis is Professor of Employment Law at Middlesex University. He is the convenor of the International Whistleblowing Research Network. He is head of the Whistleblowing Research Unit at Middlesex University, and has published widely on the topic of whistleblowing since the mid-1990s.

Mahaut Francini is Assistant Professor in Organisation Studies at the University of Paris-Dauphine. Her research focuses on understanding practices and discourses related to the reception of whistleblowing episodes.

Arron Phillips is a WERU/CREW PhD student at the University of Greenwich. His current research focuses on the role of trade unions in the whistleblowing process.

Wim Vandekerckhove is Reader in Business Ethics at the University of Greenwich, and WERU/CREW member. He has provided expertise on whistleblowing to various stakeholders, including Council of Europe, Transparency International, ACCA, British Standards Institute, Financial Conduct Authority, Department of Health, and Public Concern at Work. He is currently the convenor of the ISO working group (TC309/WG3) developing an international standard on internal whistleblowing systems.
 
This is a free seminar, open to the public and all are invited, but please can you inform us if you are planning to attend from outside the University of Greenwich by registering your interest at:   Business School Events with your name, job title and organisation to attend. Or email Dr Ruth Ballardie on R.T.Ballardie@greenwich.ac.uk

HOW TO FIND US:
Hamilton House, 15 Park Vista, Greenwich, London SE10 9LZ
Telephone: +44 20 8331 9083 E-mail: i3centre@gre.ac.uk

21st November 2018

2018 CIPD Applied Research Conference

Dear colleague,

We still have places available for the 2018 CIPD Applied Research Conference taking place at Nottingham Business School on 5-6 December.

Improving the world of work rests on quality research feeding into employment policy and practice. Now in its 4^th year, the Applied Research Conference exists for this purpose, strengthening links between research and practice. Come and be a part of it!

Information on the programme, bookings and previous years’ conferences is available at www.cipd.co.uk/arc

I hope to see you there. Please share this email with any colleagues you think may be interested.

21st November 2018

Massey University, NZ - vacancy for Head of School

Massey University, NZ - vacancy for Head of School

Massey Business School is one of New Zealand’s (NZ) leading and largest business schools, and is ranked in the top 2% business schools globally. The School of Management is a large academic unit based at Auckland and Palmerston North, with particular strengths in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations.

The Head of School of Management will provide effective academic leadership and management, within the strategic framework of Massey Business School and wider University. You will be a dynamic, innovative and effective academic leader, who possesses a clear and compelling vision to shape the future direction, academic development and research achievements of the School. Proven management and financial planning skills, along with superior human resource management abilities, are also essential for this role. This role will offer you an outstanding opportunity to further develop a well-established and internationally recognised School, with the flexibility to be based in either the Auckland campus in Albany, or the Manawatu campus in Palmerston North.

Appointment will be on a permanent (tenured) basis, with the role as Head of School being an initial term of five years, after which time a further term may be available. Preference is for candidates appointable at Professorial level, although Associate Professor may be considered for the right candidate.

Applications close on 13 January 2019.

Details available at http://massey-careers.massey.ac.nz/10588/head-of-school-of-management

Further enquiries should be directed to: Professor Stephen Kelly Pro Vice-Chancellor, Massey Business SchoolS.J.Kelly@massey.ac.nz

21st November 2018

Work and well-being in the 21st century

The Regulating for Decent Work Organizing Committee is delighted to announce the Call for Abstracts for its 2019 RDW Conference.

The Conference is on the theme  Work and well-being in the 21^st century and will be held at the International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland from 8–10 July 2019. The conference is organised around four tracks:

·         Transitions and transformations in the world of work

·         Rethinking capitalism

·         Well-being in the world of work

·         Building and renewing institutions: a social contract for the 21^st century

As you may know the Conference is organized by the International Labour Office (ILO) in collaboration with:

• Amsterdam Institute for Labour Studies / Hugo Sinzheimer Instituut (AIAS-HSI) – University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law (CELRL) – University of Melbourne, Australia
• Centre for Informal Sector and Labor Studies (CISLS) – Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
• Durham Law School (DLS) – University of Durham, UK
• Institut für Arbeit und Qualifikation (IAQ) – University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) – Brasilia, Brazil
• Korea Labor Institute (KLI) – Seoul, Republic of Korea
• Work and Equalities Institute (WEI) – University of Manchester, UK

Please circulate the Call for Abstracts, among your colleagues and networks. The link for submissions of abstracts and other details can be found at the conference website at: http://www.ilo.org/rdw2019.

20th November 2018

David Winchester

David Winchester 

Sadly David Winchester - BUIRA member who taught at the LSE (1970-78) and then Warwick (1978-2001) - died on October 23. His funeral will be on Friday November 16 and in the afternoon (from 1 p.m.) friends, family and colleagues are getting together to celebrate his life. This will be at The Orangery, Goldney Hall, University of Bristol, Lower Clifton Hill, Bristol BS8 1BH. 

Please email stephanietailby@gmail.com for further detail. 

2nd November 2018

Applications are invited for a fixed-term temporary Lecturer in Human Resource Management/Employment Studies.

Applications are invited for a fixed-term temporary Lecturer in Human Resource Management/Employment Studies.

Vacancy HUM-12990/Lecturer in Human Resource Management/Employment Studies[Lecturer in Human Resource Management/Employment Studies], 

https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=16343

The closing date is 15/11/2018.

2nd November 2018

Call for papers and special issue expressions of interest

Call for papers and special issue expressions of interest

Labour and Industry: A journal of the social and economic relations of work is published by Taylor and Francis and is the official journal of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ). The journal was recently ranked ‘2’ by the UK Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) and retained its ‘B’ in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) list.

The journal is increasingly international and multi-disciplinary in focus. We welcome high-quality submissions that develop understanding of employment relations, human resource management and the sociology of work. We are also keen to receive proposals for special issues. For further information please consult our website (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rlab20/current) or contact our editorial team:  Professor Jim Arrowsmith (j.arrowsmith@massey.ac.nz); Dr Noelle Donnelly (Noelle.Donnelly@vuw.ac.nz); or Professor Jane Parker (j.parker@massey.ac.nz).

2nd November 2018

BUIRA History of Industrial Relations Study Group

BUIRA History of Industrial Relations Study Group

The German Revolution 1918: Industrial Relations and Social Change

Wednesday 7 November 2018: 15.30-17.30 (tea/coffee from 15.00)

Room C379, University of Westminster Business School, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS (opposite Madame Tussauds and nearly opposite Baker Street tube)

For further details or to reserve a place, please e-mail

Michael Gold (m.gold@rhul.ac.uk) or Linda Clarke (clarkel@wmin.ac.uk).

Programme:

3.00-3.20pm: Tea/ coffee/ refreshments

3.20pm: Welcome and introductions: Michael Gold and Linda Clarke (Chairs)

3.30-4.00pm: Ralf Hoffrogge

Shop Stewards and Revolution: From Workers´ Councils to Works Councils (1916-1920)

In German industrial relations, works councils, established in 1920 and re-introduced into West German labour law in 1952, guarantee representation of employees independently of trade-union membership or recognition. This long standing institution of German corporatism evolved out of the council movement during the Revolution 1918/1919. Usually, the councils are identified with icons such as Rosa Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, but their specific origins lay in the mass strikes organized by rebellious shop stewards since 1916. This presentation outlines the history of the so-called Revolutionary Shop Stewards, a network organizing anti-war mass strikes between 1916 and 1918 and a backbone of the council movement during the German Revolution of 1918-1919. Over this period, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards managed to become a synthesis of an avant-garde group and grassroots organization, pushing the masses forward but never failing to maintain a mode of democratic representation. However, the presentation also traces its dissolution, which started in 1919.

4.00-4.30pm: James Muldoon

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Kautsky on the Prospects for a Socialist Democracy

The emergence of workers' and soldiers' councils across Germany during 1918 brought an end to the reign of the Kaiser and opened the possibility of radical social and political transformation. With conservative and reactionary groups temporarily obstructed and overwhelmed, the Executive Council of the Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils declared itself the highest political authority of the Socialist Republic of Germany and ordered that the councils’ power ‘must be secured and expanded so that the achievements of the revolution will benefit the entire working class’. Various political theorists and actors within the council movement developed different, sometimes competing, conceptions of how Germany could be transformed into a socialist or workers' democracy. This paper analyses two visions for the future of German politics and contrasts the different strategies, institutions and goals of revolutionary struggle in the political writings of Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg in order to shed new light on what is at stake for contemporary politics.

4.30-5.00pm: General discussion

5.00pm: Close (followed by drinks until 5.30pm)
 

The speakers:

James Muldoon is a lecturer in political science at the University of Exeter. He is editor of Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics; Trumping the Mainstream: the Conquest of Mainstream Democratic Politics by the Populist Right; and the forthcoming The German Revolution and Political Theory. He is also the author of Hegel’s Philosophy of Drives.

Ralf Hoffrogge is postdoctoral researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and has published widely on German labour history. His special interest is in biographies, German-Jewish relations within the Labour movement and German Communism during the Weimar Republic. He is currently working on a historical comparison of the German metalworkers’ union Industriegewerkschaft Metall and the British Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU).

2nd November 2018

Vale Dr Sandra Cockfield, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Vale Dr Sandra Cockfield, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

It is with great sadness that we share the news that our Australian industrial relations colleague, Dr Sandra Cockfield, passed away peacefully on 21 October 2018. She had attended more than one BUIRA conference. If you knew her and will be in Melbourne on 9 Nov. 2018, you might consider attending a Celebration of the Life of Sandra. If you wish to do so, please RSVP at:   

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/celebration-of-the-life-of-dr-sandra-cockfield-registration-51863861205     RSVP only if you wish to attend. Thanks.

Sandra was an exceptional woman – witty, generous and caring, she leaves us much too young following a battle with cancer. She had an extensive knowledge of politics, and was passionate about justice and fairness in her personal and academic life. She leaves behind her a life full of achievements and legacies and will be greatly missed by family, friends, colleagues and students.
Sandra’s higher education was at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She was subsequently a valuable and well-read Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne. Sandra was a dedicated teacher who specialised in the areas of industrial relations and negotiations. Sandra was highly regarded, especially across the Australian industrial relations community. She was an approachable teacher and friend who saw the positive in people and was inclusive of others. 
Her research on industrial relations had a particular focus on union organisation and strategy, and her thinking was influential in Australia and internationally. Her contributions to the field of research and student learning relating to these topics is substantial and significant. Sandra had a passion for understanding and contributing to sustainability and had also researched and published on sustainable small-scale farming in India. 
Sandra was committed to providing service to governments and other organisations. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) awarded Sandra Life Membership, a rare honour, which recognised her great service to workplace relations at Monash University and beyond. This included being on the NTEU Enterprise Bargaining Team at Monash for twelve years. 
Sandra built a valuable professional reputation and was a co-organiser of activities, for example, with two of her Australian professional societies, the Industrial Relations Society, and the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. She also contributed as Co-Director, Australian Consortium for Research in Employment and Work, Monash University.

Her contribution to all these organisations will be greatly missed and will remain her legacy long into the future. Sandra was a dear friend to many. Times shared with Sandra talking politics and current affairs were very special. All those who knew her are deeply saddened by her passing, but take comfort and will find joy in the memories of great times shared together. Sandra was an avid traveller. We are very sad to lose her and extend our sincerest condolences to her family.

Instead of sending flowers, a fund will be established to facilitate a lasting tribute to Sandra. For more details, please ask the undersigned. Thanks again.

Greg Bamber, Professor, Monash University, in consultation Sandra’s family and close friends: gregbamber@gmail.com

1st November 2018

Call for Papers Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations (GRDO) Strategic Interest Group European Academy of Management, June 26-28, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Papers
Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations (GRDO) Strategic Interest Group
European Academy of Management, June 26-28, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2019

GRDO SIG Chairwoman: Beverly Metcalf
GRDO SIG Program Chair: Hamid Kazeroony, hamid.kazeroony2@mail.waldenu.edu 

For detail submission requirements please see SIG 05: Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations (GRDO)

T05_02 - Disability equality, fact or fiction? Future directions for workplace integration.

Globally equality legislation has promoted the rights of persons with disabilities (PWD), however, these rights remain elusive in practice. PWD are the largest underutilised labour market group and face distinct disadvantage entering and inside the labour market. Where organisations promote equality and diversity through management practices, there remains a policy to practice implementation gap and weak legislative enforcement of rights. This stream will address the ableist environment which poses challenges to disability inclusion. It will consider key debates on legislative impact, workplace integration for PWD, policy implementation gaps and specific challenges and enablers in the workplace.

 Laura William, University of Greenwich, L.C.William@Greenwich.ac.uk​​

29th October 2018

Is whistleblowing the new normal?

Is whistleblowing the new normal?

Wednesday 12^th December 2018

TIME: 15.00 – 18.00

VENUE:  Room HH102, Hamilton House, Park Vista, Greenwich    SE10 9LZ

In the context of whistleblowing, policy-makers have recently started to shift the focus from the person of the whistleblower towards the recipients of whistleblowing, i.e. those whom whistleblowers call upon to stop wrongdoing. Increasingly, organisations are implementing speak-up policies through procedures, training, and in-house or outsourced hotlines. Is this a new form of managerialism? Is it, as some voice scholars wrote recently (Barry & Wilkinson, 2016 BJIR), "pro-social or pro-management"? On the other hand, research shows that external whistleblowing is most often a result of badly managed internal whistleblowing. Hence, the way organisations institutionalise whistleblowing warrants our attention. This seminar discusses the institutionalisation of whistleblowing, around four pieces of recent research.

Dr Erik Mygind du Plessis, Copenhagen Business School.

"Speaking truth through power: Conceptualizing internal hotlines using Foucault's dispositive."

Prof David Lewis, Middlesex University.

"What information about whistleblowing do the FTSE top 100 firms post on their website?"

Dr Mahaut Fanchini, University of Paris-Dauphine.

“The co-construction of whistleblowing: How expectations of the recipient frame ‘acceptable’ whistleblowing narratives."

Arron Phillips, University of Greenwich.

"Do trade union members blow the whistle differently? Exploring data from a UK whistleblower advice line."

Chaired by Dr Wim Vandekerckhove, University of Greenwich

Bios:

Erik Du Plessis is assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. His research explores ways in which whistleblowing is institutionalised. Previous studies include whistleblowing in the context of Danish trade unions.

David Lewis is Professor of Employment Law at Middlesex University. He is the convenor of the International Whistleblowing Research Network. He is head of the Whistleblowing Research Unit at Middlesex University, and has published widely on the topic of whistleblowing since the mid-1990s.

Mahaut Francini is Assistant Professor in Organisation Studies at the University of Paris-Dauphine. Her research focuses on understanding practices and discourses related to the reception of whistleblowing episodes.

Arron Phillips is a WERU/CREW PhD student at the University of Greenwich. His current research focuses on the role of trade unions in the whistleblowing process.

Wim Vandekerckhove is Reader in Business Ethics at the University of Greenwich, and WERU/CREW member. He has provided expertise on whistleblowing to various stakeholders, including Council of Europe, Transparency International, ACCA, British Standards Institute, Financial Conduct Authority, Department of Health, and Public Concern at Work. He is currently the convenor of the ISO working group (TC309/WG3) developing an international standard on internal whistleblowing systems.

This is a free seminar, open to the public and all are invited, but please can you inform us if you are planning to attend from outside the University of Greenwich by registering your interest at:   Business School Events with your name, job title and organisation to attend. Or email Dr Ruth Ballardie on R.T.Ballardie@greenwich.ac.uk

25th October 2018

Special issue call for papers from the journal Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

22nd October 2018

Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS): Nominations for Fellowships

BUIRA has recently become 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 now 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 NOVEMBER 16 2018.    This will allow the Executive to meet AcSS's next deadline of 30 November.

If you have any queries about the process, please contact the BUIRA Treasurer, Stephen Procter (stephen.procter@newcastle.ac.uk)

22nd October 2018

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