AIRAANZ Conference 2019

The Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand is pleased to invite you to attend the 2019 Conference, to be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia from Tuesday 12 February to Thursday 14 February 2019.

The conference theme is Global Work, Quality Work?

This theme invites us to consider the dilemmas arising from growing disparities in the quality of jobs and from fragmentation of employment, especially in the context of the rapidly changing landscape of global capitalism, labour regulation, labour migration and labour movements.

The contributions of industrial relations scholarship and practice to understanding and responding to the challenges of growing inequalities in employment, pressures on job quality and poor labour market outcomes for diverse groups of workers will set the direction for the conference. Papers that engage with innovative responses to the challenges and issues of regulation, labour organisation and labour movements are of particular interest.

Along with contributions that address the conference themes a wide range of papers are invited, drawing on industrial relations, human resources, sociology of work and labour rights scholarship and from local, regional and global perspectives.

The Association of Industrial Relations Academics in Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) was officially constituted in 1983. In 2019 AIRAANZ is holding its 33rd conference.

About AIRAANZ

The Association of Industrial Relations Academics in Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) was officially constituted in 1983. In 2019 AIRAANZ is holding its 33rd conference.

Key contacts for the 2019 Conference Organising Committee are:

• Fiona Macdonald, RMIT University (fiona.macdonald@rmit.edu.au)
• Annie Delaney, RMIT University (annie.delaney@rmit.edu.au)
• Sara Charlesworth, RMIT University (sara.charlesworth@rmit.edu.au)

Other key contacts for AIRAANZ 2019 are Mandy Winter, Conference Solutions (airaanz@con-sol.com) and Diane Holland, (diane.holland@rmit.edu.au) 

Other members of the organising committee are: 

• RMIT University: Cathy Brigden, Ruth Barton, John Burgess, Karen Douglas, Peter Fairbrother, Pauline Stanton.
• Australian Catholic University: Nic Kimberley

Conference Host and Sponsor

The AIRAANZ Conference 2019 is hosted by the School of Management, RMIT University, and supported by Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and the National Tertiary Education Union.