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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · 5h

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
As part of its 65th anniversary in 2024, the Journal of Industrial Relations (ALERA Sage) launched two awards to honor outstanding scholarship in the field:

🏅 The JIR Fran Hayes Award
🌍 The JIR Joe Isaac Award

📩 to [email protected]
🗓️ Closing date: 6 November 2025

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · 1d

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

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#videoabstracts #JIR #industrialrelations

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · 7d

In this clip, Australia’s government history of climate action is framed as inertia—not bold reform. Adaptation must proceed, not stall.

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@350.org @clientearth.bsky.social #JIR #industrialrelations #Australia #climateaction ,

Clip Inertia in transformed times: Work health and safety amid climate change

Clip from #videoabstract https://doi.org/10.1177/00221856241295497

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · 17d

Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne examine how trade unions in the UK and Norway influence digitalization in food and drink manufacturing --> union presence at the workplace matters 💯

doi.org/10.1177/0022...
#JIR2025 #digitalization #TradeUnions

@etuc-ces.bsky.social @cfdt.fr @cgt.fr @tuc.org.uk

Digitalisation, unions and ‘country-effect’: Does union strength at the workplace matter?

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · 24d

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

#MIT #bookreview #industrialrelations

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Sep 9

@elgarpublishing.bsky.social #bookreview

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

👉 doi.org/10.1177/0022...
#psychosocialworkplacehazards

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑥, 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑧𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

#bookreview #industrialrelations

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

#climateaction

✂️ Eugene

60 seconds · Clipped by Journal of Industrial Relations · Original video "Climate, Law & Labor: A Conversation on Work Health and Safety in a Warming World #...

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 25

@climatenews.bsky.social @mongabay.com @carbonbrief.org @heatmap.news @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @eeb.org @bjerknes.uib.no @wwattribution.bsky.social @mightyearth.org @landclimate.bsky.social @democracynow.org

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

#ClimateJobs #Unions

The emergence of intra-labor organizing: A case study analysis of the Climate Jobs National Resource Center movement in the USA

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 23

Journal of Industrial Relations #JIR New Volume!
Volume 67 Issue 4, September 2025

journals.sagepub.com/toc/JIR/curr...

@sagepub.com @deakinuniversity.bsky.social @bjireditor.bsky.social @gigeconomypodcast.bsky.social

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

#genderpaygap #workplacejustice @workequalities.bsky.social

Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Why Intermediaries Matter - Social Science Space

Despite decades of reform, gender pay gaps (GPGs) remain a stubborn and unjust feature of labour markets globally. On average, women are […]

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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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Climate, Law & Labor: A Conversation on Work Health and Safety in a Warming World #videoabstract

YouTube video by Journal of Industrial Relations

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

#Industrialrelations #conferences

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

#GigEconomy #IndustrialRelations #FutureOfWork

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

How are Saudi firms managing rising female labor power? doi.org/10.1177/0022... reveals tensions, shifts, & new HR practices emerging as women reshape the workplace

#GenderWork #SaudiArabia #HR #FeministStudies @openDemocracy.bsky.social @dissentmag.bsky.social @feministreview.bsky.social

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 16

Journal of Industrial Relations (2025, Vol. 67, Issue 3) now out!
journals.sagepub.com/toc/JIR/current

#LaborStudies #IndustrialRelations #TransnationalOrganizing #PlatformWork #UnionResearch #WorkplaceEquity #SocialDialogue #GigEconomy #JIR

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 14

Why has income inequality surged in so many countries—even where unions still exist?

This doi.org/10.1177/0022... by Masoud Movahed compares 50+ years of data across postindustrial countries to find out.

#IndustrialRelations #FutureOfWork @jacobinmag.bsky.social @workplacefairness.bsky.social

Working-class structural power, associational power, and income inequality

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 9

Could welfare improve not just workers’ lives, but productivity too?
Read Debasree Dhar's doi.org/10.1177/0022...

#IndustrialRelations #JIR2025 #CoalMines #LaborHistory #IndianHistory #WorkplaceEquity #PublicHealth #IndustrialRelations @lawcha.bsky.social‬ @employmentblawg.bsky.social‬

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

fairwork.bsky.social gigworkerscollective.bsky.social

Exploring the voice and representation mechanisms of platform workers and implications for decent work in the Nigerian gig economy

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Jun 23

Insights on psychosocial workplace hazards #scholars 👥 #practitioners

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#employmentrelations #industrialrelations #JIR

Insights on psychosocial workplace hazards #employmentrelations #industrialrelations #shorts

This special issue explores: 💼 Burnout and toxic workloads in academia and contact centres 🩸 The weaponisation of menstruation in employment contexts 🏡 Th...

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Jun 16

🌟 Excited about the future of work and Industry 5.0? The program for the **Industry 5.0 Conference** is now live!

🌍💡 🔗 Check it out! workplaceinnovation.eu/event/advanc... Irish College, Leuven, Belgium 📅 16th-17th June 2025 -

Advancing Industry 5.0 Conference

Advancing Industry 5.0: Building Skills, Enhancing Employee Voice and Driving Workplace Innovation 16th June and 17th June

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Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

#ILC2025 #IndustrialRelations #FutureOfWork #JIR

Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social · Jun 10

👉 What happens when workplaces harm our mental and emotional health?
Watch the presentation youtu.be/hcUD3rIWOTQ

📣 Special Issue Launch
Psychosocial Workplace Hazards
📘 Read the full issue: journals.sagepub.com/home/JIR

#IndustrialRelations #WorkHealthAndSafety

👉 What happens when workplaces harm our mental and emotional health?

🧠 What are psychosocial workplace hazards—and why should we care?A powerful new special issue in the Journal of Industrial Relations brings together researc...

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