📆Call for Papers for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA): Please join us at Queen Mary, University of London on July 16-19. ➡️ 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 buira.net/conferences/... (Deadline Feb 14)

📆Call for Papers for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA): Please join us at Queen Mary, University of London on July 16-19. ➡️ 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 buira.net/conferences/... (Deadline Feb 14)

LAWCHA/Labor Research Grant - $2000 to support research on labor and working-class history by contingent faculty, independent scholar, or community college faculty @lawcha.bsky.social@contingent-mag.bsky.social

Excited to be co-organizing the 2024 Comparative Labor Workshop with Bluesky-less Danny Daneri! We aim to bring scholars working on labor issues across subfields and methods orientations into conversation Please apply with an abstract by Dec. 8 for March 8-9, 2024: forms.gle/8LDewfTw4a1N...

My team at GESIS is looking for a new PhD student to work on a Horizon Europe project on delivering evidence based policy suggestions based on harmonized survey data. We are cool, and this is interesting: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

Hey all! We want to introduce you to our new LABOR Team! Our first Team Member Highlight is Julie Greene, the new editor of LABOR! She is prof. of labor & immigration history at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Thanks very much James!

📝My latest piece in New Political Economy: I argue that rising household indebtedness is linked to the decline in trade union membership and analyse the cases of Sweden, Japan, & South Korea over the period 1965-2018. ▶️Link to the #openaccesswww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Employers (both unionized or not) have been used to a labor market where worker leverage has been on the wane since 1980s. This means managerial practices emerged and grew in an environment quite different from the present one. This disjuncture contributes to labor relations failures and strikes.

Happy to share my new piece in the Journal of International Economic Law. I use negotiations w/in the International Labor Organization (ILO) to show how the hardening of soft law standards in binding trade agreements undermines consensus on new standards at the ILO. academic.oup.com/jiel/article...

Integrating non-binding labour standards in binding trade agreements: The ILO’s feedback loop

ABSTRACT. Much attention has been placed on how trade agreements integrate and benefit from a non-binding International Labour Organization (ILO) declaration. T