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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
On Monday 11th 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
The Centre for Research in Employment and Work (CREW) is holding a symposium on Public Sector Pay and Employment on Wed 20th March 2019 from 1-6 pm at Hamilton House, The University of Greenwich.
This seminar comes at a critical time for the public sector. The details are below. Could you advertise this to your members?
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.
31st January 2019
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
16th January 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 16th 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 6th 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 13th 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 8th May 2019
Time: 15:30 – 17:00 Hrs (coffee/tea at 15:15)
Venue: Alliance Manchester Business School 3.008
11th December 2018
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
11th December 2018
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
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:
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:
Submission details
Abstracts of papers should be submitted via https://www.buira.org/admin/submissions/create
Deadline for submission of abstracts: Monday, 14th 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 – 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
HE UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH UNIT /
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON EMPLOYMENT AND WORK
Is whistleblowing the new normal?
Wednesday 12th 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
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 4th 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 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
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 21st 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 21st century
As you may know the Conference is organized by the International Labour Office (ILO) in collaboration with:
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
Wednesday 12th 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
DIVERSITY IN THE WORK-LIFE INTERFACE
For this special issue, the editors are interested in papers presenting research that takes intersecting strands of diversity in exploring the work-life experiences of minority, marginalized, and/or under-researched groups of workers. These may include transgender individuals, other members of the LGBT community, ethnic or religious minority employees, workers with disabilities, low income workers, and men. Other under-researched groups include workers in non-Western contexts, and those with nontraditional family formations. We encourage new insights, new possibilities, and new reflections, inspired by interdisciplinary approaches. Both empirical and theoretical approaches focused on diverse cultural and international settings are welcome.
Guest editors:
T. Alexandra Beauregard, Birkbeck, University of London – a.beauregard@bbk.ac.uk
Maria Adamson, Middlesex University Business School – m.adamson@mdx.ac.uk
Aylin Kunter, Middlesex University Business School – a.kunter@mdx.ac.uk
Lilian Miles, Middlesex University Business School – l.miles@mdx.ac.uk
Ian Roper, Middlesex University Business School – i.roper@mdx.ac.uk
Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2019
Please do not submit until January 1, 2019
For more info please go to EDI journal http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=7863
22nd October 2018
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
Feminist Library Appeal
Colleagues may be aware of the London Feminist Library’s recent struggles – there is some news and an appeal below. The Library is a vital resource for anyone interested in the history and present of women’s experience of work, employment and economic life.
The Feminist Library has finally found a new home - but we now need your support more than ever. We urgently need to raise at least £30,000 to be able to fund our move to the new space, and we need to leave our current premises in Spring 2019.
After our long struggle against eviction (read more about our struggle to save the Library here.), the move is actually quite unexpectedly exciting! We’ll have a new, (much needed!) bigger space, based within a community centre in Peckham, and named after a woman abolitionist and feminist - Sojourner Truth! The bigger space will allow us to expand our collections and run even more and bigger exciting community events.
Yet we have no choice but to leave our current premises with little notice and next to no funds, and need to fundraise for the new space urgently - we need to raise at least £30,000 in order for us to be able to move.
Please help us protect this vital community resource! Help save the Feminist Library! Donate to our crowdfunding campaign and read more about it here:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/help-the-feminist-library-build-its-new-home/
16th October 2018
Fair Work Commission Wales
The Welsh Government has set up an independent Fair Work Commission to make recommendations to promote and encourage fair work in Wales.
A five week call for evidence opens on 12 October. The research of many BUIRA members will be of relevance to the work of the Commission and they are encouraged to submit evidence via the Fair Work Commission website http://beta.gov.wales/fair-work-commission
The Commission comprises a small independent panel of experts appointed by the First Minister in July 2018. It is chaired by Professor Linda Dickens. The other Commissioners are: Sharanne Basham-Pyke, Professor Edmund Heery and Sarah Veale. Professor Alan Felstead is independent expert adviser to the Commission.
The Terms of Reference of the Commission are:
“On the basis of evidence and analysis the Commission is to make recommendations to promote and encourage fair work in Wales.
The Commission will develop indicators and measures of fair work and Identify data sources to help monitor progress. It will consider whether measures to promote fair work currently available to the Welsh government could be taken further and identify what new or additional steps might be taken, including new legislation, and make recommendations.”
The Commission is to report by March 2019.
The call for evidence is aimed at organisations and individuals across the public, private and third sectors. The Fair Work Commission wishes to tap into a wide range of experience, views and research relevant to its terms of reference. It is not a consultation on developed proposals but rather an early stage request for input to help the Commission formulate its proposals and shape the recommendations it will make to ministers.
The Commission is holding a number of engagement meetings and is planning to convene an academic workshop in mid January 2019.
Professor Linda Dickens
Chair, Wales Fair Work Commission
Email. fairworkcommission@gov.wales
http://beta.gov.wales/fair-work-commission
16th October 2018
| Central Arbitration Committee |
There is an advert out on the Public Appointments website for new CAC Deputy Chairs. Linda Dickens and Lynette Harris both recently retired from the CAC
https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/appointment/deputy-chairs/
16th October 2018
There is an advert out on the Public Appointments website for new CAC Deputy Chairs. Linda Dickens and Lynette Harris both recently retired from the CAC
https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/appointment/deputy-chairs/
16th October 2018
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).
15th October 2018
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
3rd October 2018
HE UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH UNIT
THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT REGULATION: A MANIFESTO FOR LABOUR LAW?
WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 2018. 15.00 – 18.00
VENUE: ROOM HH102, HAMILTON HOUSE, PARK VISTA, GREENWICH, SE10 9LZ
This seminar will look at the future of collective bargaining and trade union recognition. Over the past 30 years the extent of collective bargaining in the UK has been significantly reduced and, despite union recognition law being passed by the previous Labour Government, union membership has also declined. Since 2010 the impact of the economic recession and Government austerity policies have not improved this situation. In 2016 a group of legal experts put forward a proposal to increase collective bargaining in the private sector by extending sectoral or industry bargaining, underpinned by strong trade union rights. This was published by the Institute of Employment Rights as ‘A Manifesto for Labour Law’. Professor Keith Ewing of Kings College London and Professor Sonia McKay, Visiting Professor at the University of Greenwich, were both co-authors of the report and they will both speak at the seminar. Our other speakers will be Sarah Veale, previously Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC, and Alastair Hatchett, previously head of pay research at IDS (both are Visiting Fellows at the Work and Employment Research Unit).
Professor Keith Ewing is Professor of Public Law at Kings College London. Professor Ewing joined The Dickson Poon School of Law in 1989. Prior to this he was Visiting Professor at the University of Western Australia (1992); at the University of Alberta (1987-88) and at Osgoode Hall Law School (1982). He has also held positions at the University of Edinburgh, 1978-83 and at the University of Cambridge, 1983-1989.
Professor Sonia McKay Sonia McKay is a visiting Professor of European Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Greenwich as well as the University of the West of England. She was previously at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University where she headed a number of research projects, mainly focusing on discrimination, migration and collective organisation at both national and EU level. She holds a law degree from Queens University, Belfast and a Ph.D in employment law from Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Dr Sarah Veale was Head of Equality and Employment Rights at the TUC between 2003 and 2015, when she retired. Since then Sarah has been a Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, a member of the Regulatory Policy Committee, an Executive Committee member of the Institute for Employment Rights and Vice Chair of the Equality and Diversity Forum. Previously Sarah was a member of the ACAS Council and the Health and Safety Executive Board.
Alastair Hatchett has been a visiting fellow at the University of Greenwich since 2013, having retired from his post of head of pay and research at Incomes Data Services in 2012. He has an extensive knowledge of pay systems and pay bargaining after 30 years of research at IDS. He has led a wide range of pay research projects for the Low Pay Commission, the Pay Review Bodies, many different trade unions, the TUC and the CIPD and was a regular speaker at seminars and conferences. His current research is focussed on public sector pay, the future of collective bargaining and the changing structure of the labour market.
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
1st October 2018
Interdisciplinary research seminars on WORK, first semester 2019, to mark the 100th
anniversary of the ILO (1919-2019), organised by the Contact Group FNRS– Work and social
emancipation (Belgium)
Can the Future of Work become its past?
Call for papers
Texts should not be longer than 5 pages (2500 words). They can be
written in English or French, working languages of the study days.
The aim of these texts should be to encourage the debate, on the basis
of specific data and observations or of a broader synthesis, and not the present descriptive
literature reviews.
Return abstracts submissions (200-250 words): 15 October 2018
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Corinne GOBIN
Maître de recherche du FNRS à l'ULB
Directrice du GRAID
Institut de Sociologie
44, av. Jeanne
1050 Bruxelles
Tél.: 32-2-6504915
Fax.: 32-2-6503521
1st October 2018
Location: Caulfield campus, Melbourne
Employment Type: Continuing appointment
Remuneration: AUD $181,066 pa Level E (plus 17% employer superannuation)
Monash is full of thinkers and doers who are looking for their next challenge. So, if you’ve forged a rewarding career so far, this role provides the perfect platform to join us. You’ll have access to quality research facilities, infrastructure and teaching spaces to do exciting work, along with opportunities to collaborate internationally. You’ll be part of a university that’s made up of inspirational, challenging thinkers and doers – and continue doing work that makes a lasting impact.
The Monash Business School is one of the largest business education providers in Australia. The Monash Business School is based in Melbourne, which is ranked (by the Economist Intelligence Unit) as one of the world’s most liveable cities. Melbourne is well known for its coffee, restaurants, night-life and is the sporting capital of Australia. Melbourne is proud of its excellent healthcare, education, diverse culture and booming infrastructure; making it a welcoming and exciting place to work and to call home.
The Department of Management is comprised of influential, world-renown academics, mentoring the talent of future managers and leaders. Our commitment to excellence is proven through our world-class research outputs and contemporary and engaging teaching practices. The Department delivers quality and impactful research that influences industry and communities. We have a vibrant research culture, coupled with a research seminar and visitor program.
The Department is seeking to appoint a Professor who will continue to advance the department’s contribution to teaching and research. While we welcome applications from all disciplines, applications from human resources or organisational behaviour scholars are strongly encouraged. If you would like to be a part of our world-class department and help grow our vibrant and engaging culture, then we welcome your application.
This position is a continuing, full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.
Your application must address the selection criteria. Please refer to How to apply for a senior academic position:
Enquiries
Professor Véronique Ambrosini, Head of Department of Management, v.ambrosini@monash.edu
[ For an informal discussion, you would be welcome to talk with Professor Greg Bamber, greg.bamber@monash.edu ]
Position Description
http://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/582132/professor-in-management-business-and-economics
Closing Date
Wednesday 17 October 2018
1st October 2018
1st October 2018
BUIRA History of Industrial Relations Study Group
TUC: 150th Anniversary
Walter Citrine and the Changing International Environment, 1920-1945
Wednesday 17 October 2018
4.00pm for 4.20-6.30pm (Tea/ coffee from 4.00)
Room tbc, 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 email Michael Gold (m.gold@rhul.ac.uk) or Linda Clarke (clarkel@wmin.ac.uk).
Programme:
4.00-4.20pm: Tea/ coffee/ refreshments
4.20-4.30: Welcome: Michael Gold and Linda Clarke (Chairs)
4.30-5.00: Jim Moher
The TUC leadership and the Left after the General Strike - Citrine/Bevin - Cripps/Beavan
Walter (Lord) Citrine (1887-1983), General Secretary of the TUC in its heyday – from the General Strike to 1946 – has, largely, but undeservedly, been written out of the history of the Labour movement. He is remembered only for his ABC of Chairmanship, while his stewardship of the TUC, central role as President of the International Federation of Trade Unions (1928-1945) and huge influence on Labour Party policy in the 1930s and 1940s, has been downplayed or ignored. Citrine’s side has rarely been examined but can now be seen to have been far more substantial and significant as a contribution to the Labour movement.
5.00-5.30: Jonathan Davis
Searching for Truth in Russia: Walter Citrine’s Soviet Visits in the Interwar Years
The TUC General Secretary Walter Citrine went to the Soviet Union in 1925 and 1935. Touring the country to see how socialism was developing in a country that was seen by many as the vanguard of the international socialist movement, he found reasons to be both optimistic and pessimistic about the development of a left-wing alternative to capitalism. Yet Citrine’s visits have not had the attention they deserve. This talk will therefore consider what Citrine saw when he searched ‘for truth’ in Russia, and it will assess how it contributed to Labour’s socialist identity in the interwar years.
5.30-6.00: General discussion
6.00: Close (followed by drinks until 6.30)
The speakers:
Dr Jim Moher is a former union national official (T&GWU and CWU) and Labour councillor, turned historian. He has published a chapter on Walter Citrine: A Union Pioneer of Industrial Cooperation in Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain (editors P. Ackers & A. Reid, Palgrave, 2017), as well as other pieces on Citrine. He is working on the first biography of the TUC leader and is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary British History, King’s College, London.
Dr Jonathan Davis is Senior Lecturer in History and Co-director of the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University. He has published widely on Labour and the Soviet Union and is co-editor of Labour and the Wider World (I. B. Tauris, 2008), Britain’s Second Labour Government, 1929-31: a reappraisal (MUP, 2011), and Labour and the Left in the 1980s (MUP, 2018). He is currently writing a global history of the 1980s for Routledge.
1st October 2018
The impact of the Trade Union Act 2016 on strikes and industrial action: Doing what it says on the tin? Come along to the next MIRS meeting with speaker Professor Gregor Gall: Visiting Professor of Industrial Relations, Leeds University Business School
Thursday 11 October 2018, 6pm http://www.mirs.org.uk
1st October 2018
Making Good Work: Policy, Practice and Research
Workshop Tuesday 30th October 2018
Science Gallery, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9GU
Improving the quality of jobs is a widely shared goal among the three communities of: policy makers; practitioners in companies and trade unions; and researchers. There is also widespread consensus that policy, practice and research could be improved if dialogue between these three specialist communities were better.
This workshop seeks to address this situation and improve engagement between the three communities, with specific reference to research, policy and practice around improving the quality of work.
In the morning session two presentations will explore the processes involved in
successful collaboration. In the afternoon, workshops jointly facilitated by academics,
policymakers and practitioners will discuss the practicalities of collaborative working.
Academics will be able to engage directly with policymakers and practitioners, as they, in their turn, will be able to engage directly with academics. We hope that this will help to establish an environment where professionals can meet and where all can learn from existing collaborations which produce high quality research that is collaborative and that has impact. This will also be an opportunity to exchange ideas which will lead to future collaborations to tackle bad jobs and improve job quality.
The fee to attend is £80, with lunch and refreshments provided.
PhD students and Early Career Researchers will be charged £30 and there may be
additional support available for them.
Please book online at:
https://store.leeds.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/leeds-university-business-school/research-
events/making-good-work-policy-practice-and-research
AGENDA
9.00
Registration and coffee
10.00
Welcome – Professor Stephen Bach, Dean of King’s Business
School
10.15 – 12.15
Professor Patricia Findlay (Strathclyde University), Grahame Smith
(General Secretary, Scottish TUC) and Linda Murray (Head
of
Strategy Services Scottish Enterprise).
Professor Monder Ram (Aston University) and Fuad Mahamed
(CEO Ashley Integrates).
12.15 – 13.15
Lunch break
13.15 – 14.15
Break out groups Session One
14.15 – 14.45
Coffee break
14.45 – 15.45
Break out groups Session Two
15.45 – 16.15
Debrief, Closing remarks
Workshop Organisers: Professor Irena Grugulis (Leeds), Professor Katie Bailey (Kings)and Professor Kevin Daniels (UEA)
Workshop Steering Group: Professor Paul Edwards (Birmingham), Dr Diane Burns
(Sheffield), Professor John Childs (Birmingham), Professor Anne-Marie Greene
(Leicester), Professor Ray Loveridge (Oxford), Professor Monder Ram (Aston), Kiran
Trehan (Birmingham), Professor Chris Warhurst (Warwick), Dr M Williams (Surrey)
24th September 2018
A History & Policy Trade Union and Employment Forum conference
Saturday 6th October 2018, 10am -5pm
Lecture Theatre 3, Bush House (North East Wing),
King’s College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG
In 1868, while suffering under major legal restrictions, the British
trade unions teamed up to found a central body to lobby for their
wider social and industrial aims and rights. Today, when unions are
again subject to severe legal disadvantage, it is timely to recall the
first Trades Union Congress (TUC) and unions’ achievements, and
to look forward on union prospects for the future.
Speakers and chairs including:
TUC
and senior political correspondent
Labour movement
Places are free but limited so booking is essential. Please
Email historyandpolicy@kcl.ac.uk
to advise of any disability or
access requirements.
the Eventbrite listing is up
here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/democracy-
at-work-150-years-of-the-tuc-tickets-49649947329
24th September 2018
24th September 2018
24th September 2018
The 2019 BUIRA conference will be held in Newcastle, 1-3 July 2019. Please mark the date in your diary. The call for papers will follow soon.
BUIRA
24th September 2018
James Moher: The Combination Laws and the Struggle for Supremacy in the Early Engineering Trades: The London Society of Journeymen Millwrights
Adrian Williamson: Lyons v. Wilkins and the Right to Peacefully Persuade
Andrew Perchard and Keith Gildart: ‘Run with the fox and hunt with the hounds’: Managerial Trade-Unionism and the British Association of Colliery Management, 1947–1994
Ewan Gibbs and Jim Phillips: Who Owns a Factory?: Caterpillar Tractors in Uddingston, 1956 to 1987
Roger Undy: The Making of UNITE the Union: The Dynamics of Amalgamation
Rebecca Zahn: The ‘European Social Model’ and the UK: From Europeanization to Anglicization
Bob Fryer and Steve Williams: Remembering and Honouring NUPE: A Response to Dave Lyddon’s Review Essay on Leadership and Democracy
David S. Rowbottom: A Contribution to the History of the National Union of Public Employees: A View from Cumbria, 1969–1979
Book Reviews
Paul O’Leary: Joe England, Merthyr: The Crucible of Modern Wales
Sheila Blackburn: Peter Ackers and Alastair Reid (eds), Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century
Colin Crouch: Werner Bonefeld, The Strong State and the Free Economy
Back-issues to no. 31/32 (2011) at a discount are available to subscribers.
10th September 2018
10th September 2018
Effort, Participation and Insecurity at Work in Britain:
First Findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017
Date: 1.00pm – 3.45pm, Wednesday 3 October 2018
Venue: Canada Water Culture Space, 21 Surrey Quays Rd, London SE16 7AR.
Dear Colleague,
The Skills and Employment Survey 2017 is the seventh in a series of surveys stretching back to the mid-1980s. A second set of results from the survey will be launched on Wednesday 3 October 2018 at Canada Water Culture Space, London (three further reports are available from www.cardiff.ac.uk/ses2017).
At this event the authors – Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, Francis Green and Golo Henseke – will present headline findings of the survey and outline policy implications relating to three themes:
· Work Intensity
· Participation
· Insecurity
The event will be chaired by Lesley Giles of the Work Foundation and Cara Maguire member of the Good Work team at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will offer some reflections on the results presented.
If you require any further information, please contact Katharine Buckle at the SES2017 Conference Desk on Tel: 020 7612 6566.
First Findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017
Date: 1.00pm – 3.45pm, Wednesday 3 October 2018
Venue: Canada Water Culture Space, 21 Surrey Quays Rd, London SE16 7AR.
Dear Colleague,
The Skills and Employment Survey 2017 is the seventh in a series of surveys stretching back to the mid-1980s. A second set of results from the survey will be launched on Wednesday 3 October 2018 at Canada Water Culture Space, London (three further reports are available from www.cardiff.ac.uk/ses2017).
At this event the authors – Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, Francis Green and Golo Henseke – will present headline findings of the survey and outline policy implications relating to three themes:
· Work Intensity
· Participation
· Insecurity
The event will be chaired by Lesley Giles of the Work Foundation and Cara Maguire member of the Good Work team at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will offer some reflections on the results presented.
If you require any further information, please contact Katharine Buckle at the SES2017 Conference Desk on Tel: 020 7612 6566.
10th September 2018
Dear Tony Dundon,
Congratulations on the publication of your book The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations.
Using the following unique link, you can share the book in its entirety.
Those you share the links with will be able to read the full book online and there are no restrictions on how many people you can send the link to, so please take this unique opportunity to share widely and get people talking about your work.
The links will expire 60 days from today, and whilst everyone will be able to explore the full book online, printing, copying, or downloading will not be available.
10th September 2018
Research Studentship on Climate Change, Labour and Work at Westminster Business School, University of Westminster
Three years, full time
£16,000 annual stipend plus fee waiver
A full-time University of Westminster PhD Studentship is available in the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE - https://www.westminster.ac.uk/probe) starting in January 2019. This PhD studentship is part of ProBE’s programme of research on Climate Change and Work, conducted in partnership with the York University, Toronto, funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), led by Professor Carla Lipsig Mummé and entitled Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces, an international perspective (ACW - http://www.adaptingcanadianwork.ca/). The programme explores the role of work and global warming and the role of organised workers as a force for adaptation. ProBE is responsible for the international dimension, with projects on green transition strategies and worker agency in Europe and the US, as well as in the built environment. The applicant is expected to have broad knowledge of the field and some experience of quantitative and qualitative research.
The closing date for applications is Thursday, 1st November, 2018
For further information on how to apply, please visit: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/research-degrees/research-areas/business/how-to-apply
When applying please ensure that you quote ‘WBS/ProBE Studentship’
Prospective candidates wishing to discuss an application informally should contact Professor Linda Clarke: clarkel@westminster.ac.uk
20th August 2018
Half day debate and discussion:
Celebrating and critiquing John Kelly’s Rethinking Industrial Relations
Wednesday 5 December 2018
Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC), University of Leeds
Eventbrite booking details
It was just twenty years ago that John Kelly’s Rethinking Industrial Relations (1998) was published. It is one of those rare books to be found on many of the bookshelves of people working in the field of industrial relations. To reflect on the book’s significance, we brought together a number of researchers and scholars to create a special issue of the journal, Economic and Industrial Democracy, to both celebrate as well as constructively critique the contribution Rethinking Industrial Relations has made to subsequent studies of union organising and mobilisation.
At its heart, Rethinking Industrial Relations is a forceful and robust critique of the employment relationship and employment relations under capitalism. The book adopts a radical and Marxist perspective––not from the school of academic Marxism––but from activist and political interventionist perspectives, which explains why its interest has spread beyond the academy.
We want to push forward the debate and discussion we started in the special edition – not by repeating what was said there by its contributors but rather by asking scholars and practitioners to comment on the papers and to provide questions for discussants (and the audience) to think about future application – both in the academic and in unions and social movements.
You are invited to take part in this event and join us for what looks like an enjoyable and thought-provoking day in Leeds in early December. If you would like a ticket for this event then please keep an eye out for a following email.
Gregor Gall and Jane Holgate
Wednesday 5 December 2018: Leeds
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12.00-12.05 |
Mark Stuart, CERIC director welcome |
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12.05-12.30 |
Why Rethinking Industrial Relations is worth celebrating and critiquing |
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12.30-1.45 |
12.30-1.45 Unions and social movements – can they ever be brothers and sisters in arms? |
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13.45-14.00 |
Break |
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14.00-15.15 |
What kind of ‘union organising’ is needed for union renewal? |
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15.15-15.30 |
Break |
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15:30-16:45 |
How do workers articulate their grievances in a period of strike quiescence? |
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16.45-18.00 |
Reflections on rethinking Rethinking Industrial Relations |
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18.00 |
Drinks |
Contributors
Gabriella Alberti, Associate Professor, Leeds University Business School
Heather Connolly, Associate Professor, University of Leicester
Ralph Darlington, Emeritus Professor, University of Salford
Gregor Gall, Visiting Professor, Leeds University Business School
Ian Greenwood, Associate Professor, Leeds University Business School
Jane Holgate, Professor, Leeds University Business School
Jean Jenkins, Reader, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University
John Kelly, Professor, Birkbeck, University of London
Eleanor Kirk, Research associate, University of Glasgow
Ian Manborde, Equality and Diversity Organiser, the Equity union
Miguel Martinez Lucio, Professor, Manchester Business School, Manchester University
Melanie Simms, Professor, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
Mark Stuart, Professor and CERIC director, Leeds University Business School
Charles Umney, Associate Professor, Leeds University Business School
17th August 2018
BUIRA History of Industrial Relations Study Group
TUC: 150th Anniversary
Walter Citrine and the Changing International Environment, 1920-1945
Wednesday 17 October 2018
4.00pm for 4.20-6.30pm (Tea/ coffee from 4.00)
Room tbc, 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 email Michael Gold (m.gold@rhul.ac.uk) or Linda Clarke (clarkel@wmin.ac.uk).
Programme:
4.00-4.20pm: Tea/ coffee/ refreshments
4.20-4.30: Welcome: Michael Gold and Linda Clarke (Chairs)
4.30-5.00: Jim Moher
The TUC leadership and the Left after the General Strike - Citrine/Bevin - Cripps/Beavan
Walter (Lord) Citrine (1887-1983), General Secretary of the TUC in its heyday – from the General Strike to 1946 – has, largely, but undeservedly, been written out of the history of the Labour movement. He is remembered only for his ABC of Chairmanship, while his stewardship of the TUC, central role as President of the International Federation of Trade Unions (1928-1945) and huge influence on Labour Party policy in the 1930s and 1940s, has been downplayed or ignored. Citrine’s side has rarely been examined but can now be seen to have been far more substantial and significant as a contribution to the Labour movement.
5.00-5.30: Jonathan Davis
Searching for Truth in Russia: Walter Citrine’s Soviet Visits in the Interwar Years
The TUC General Secretary Walter Citrine went to the Soviet Union in 1925 and 1935. Touring the country to see how socialism was developing in a country that was seen by many as the vanguard of the international socialist movement, he found reasons to be both optimistic and pessimistic about the development of a left-wing alternative to capitalism. Yet Citrine’s visits have not had the attention they deserve. This talk will therefore consider what Citrine saw when he searched ‘for truth’ in Russia, and it will assess how it contributed to Labour’s socialist identity in the interwar years.
5.30-6.00: General discussion
6.00: Close (followed by drinks until 6.30)
The speakers:
Dr Jim Moher is a former union national official (T&GWU and CWU) and Labour councillor, turned historian. He has published a chapter on Walter Citrine: A Union Pioneer of Industrial Cooperation in Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain (editors P. Ackers & A. Reid, Palgrave, 2017), as well as other pieces on Citrine. He is working on the first biography of the TUC leader and is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary British History, King’s College, London.
Dr Jonathan Davis is Senior Lecturer in History and Co-director of the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University. He has published widely on Labour and the Soviet Union and is co-editor of Labour and the Wider World (I. B. Tauris, 2008), Britain’s Second Labour Government, 1929-31: a reappraisal (MUP, 2011), and Labour and the Left in the 1980s (MUP, 2018). He is currently writing a global history of the 1980s for Routledge.
17th August 2018
Publication of a paperback edition of Trade Unions in Western Europe
Hard Times, Hard Choices by Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick and Richard Hyman, with an extensive Afterword which updates the analysis. £24.99. Details at
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17th August 2018
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19th September 2016
Employee voice from different perspectives
Employee voice from different perspectives
This workshop will introduce participants to a range of diverse perspectives from which voice and silence in organisations can be understood whilst acting as the inaugural event for the voice and silence community (VSC). An understanding of what encourages employees to voice is a fundamental concern for the HR professional and operational manager, yet preoccupations remain over how organisations can create conditions conducive to voice. Voice and silence scholars have traditionally focused on the role of the individual and the manager as main influences over voice and silence, yet contextual factors, as well as different types of voice have been shown to be highly influential. In the morning, the workshop will explore a number of contextual influences such as economic austerity, the presence of trade unions, the formality of voice mechanisms, and managerial processes. In the afternoon we will focus on one particular and topical form of voice, whistleblowing. To finalise the day, a workshop activity will discuss next steps for the voice and silence community, including subsequent events and collaborative opportunities.
Wednesday 6th March 9.30am - 4.30pm
This workshop will be of interest to scholars in the field of voice and silence as well as practitioners interested in how to harness the power of employees’ voices
Benefits of Attendance
• Increased awareness of diverse influences over voice and silence
• Networking opportunity
• Discussion around collaborations and subsequent events
Sheffield University Management School
Middleton Lecture Theatre
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
BAM Organisational Psychology SIG
Professor Jimmy Donaghey
Professor John Blenkinsopp
Professor Kate Kenny
Dr Rea Prouska
Dr Stewart Johnstone
Dr Sarah Brooks
For more information about this event, please contact Sarah Brooks: s.brooks@sheffield.ac.uk
For general enquires, please contact Linh Dang at the BAM Office at eventsofficer@bam.ac.uk, or on 02073837770
Students £15
BAM members £20
Non-BAM members £35
Registration Deadline: 5th March 2019
7th February 2019