The Association of Industrial Relations Academics in Australia and New Zealand are pleased to announce that the AIRAANZ 2020 Conference details have now been finalised. Next year, the conference will be held at Rydges, Queenstown, New Zealand from Tuesday 11 to Friday 14 February 2020. 

The theme of the conference is: "Doing things differently? IR practice and research beyond 2020".

This theme allows us to explore all manner of employment related topics, and ask ourselves: what will be our focus in practice and research in the uncertain times ahead? 

The call for conference abstracts and papers are now open. We will welcome any papers that explore work, industrial relations and human research management to be submitted to this conference. Papers can take a local, national or global perspective. 

Labour and Industry: A journal of the social and economic relations of work is the AIRAANZ ‘house’ journal. Each year, Labour and Industry publishes the best AIRAANZ conference papers in a special issue.

The theme of the 32nd Annual AIRAANZ Conference in 2018 was Jobs and Change in Uncertain Times. All conference papers are welcomed as submissions for consideration for this special issue, whose guest editors are the AIRAANZ organising team of Professor Andrew Stewart, Associate Professor Deb King and Emeritus Professor Eileen Willis. Additionally, this issue will comprise a section on Gender and Diversity, with guest editors Dr Sue Ressia and Dr Shalene Werth. If you would like to submit your conference paper for consideration, please note the deadline:

• Paper submission deadline – 30 June 2018

Submit your work to the Labour and Industry journal website

Papers will be reviewed over July and August 2018, with a view to finalising and publishing them in September 2018. Please note: submissions must have been papers presented at the 2018 AIRAANZ conference.

If you have any queries about the submission process for this special issue, please email Jane Halteh

The AIRAANZ Conference Committee are pleased to announce the details for the 2019 Conference, to be held in Melbourne, Australia. 

AIRAANZ Key Dates 2019

• Now open – Call for streams
• Friday 11 May – Stream proposals due
• Friday 1 June – Confirmation of streams
• Monday 4 June – Abstract and paper submissions open
• Friday 31 August – Full paper submissions close
• Monday 24 September – Notification of full paper submissions
• Friday 28 September – Abstract submissions close
• Monday 15 October – Revised refereed papers due
• Monday 5 November – Notification of abstracts and revised refereed papers
• Friday 7 December – Early Bird Registration closes

Full conference details will be available on this website soon. 

AIRAANZ is calling for applications from members to fund symposia, workshops and events in 2018 that promote IR scholarship and the role of AIRAANZ, in both Australia and New Zealand

Download the flyer for full details.

The Australian Basic Wage, National Wage Case and Safety Net decisions and orders of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration and its successors 1907-2016 are now available online.  These decisions and orders established and varied the Australian minimum wage.  They can be accessed at:
https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/archives/exhibitions/minwage/exhibitionpaper-100yrsminwage.pdf

​Alternatively the hyperlink can be found at www.fwc.gov.au, Cases Decisions & Orders, Historical Cases.  It can also be found on the Waltzing Matilda and the Sunshine Harvester website, which can be accessed under the History section in About Us at www.fwc.gov.au. The hyperlink is (The history of the Australian minimum wage).

​Labour and Industry: A journal of the social and economic relations of work is the AIRAANZ ‘house’ journal. Each year,Labour and Industry publishes the best AIRAANZ conference papers in a special issue.
 
For 2018, the theme of the 32nd Annual AIRAANZ Conference is “Jobs and Change in Uncertain Times”. We welcome all conference papers as submissions for consideration for this special issue, whose guest editors are the AIRAANZ organising team of Professor Andrew Stewart, Assoc-Professor Deb King and Emeritus Professor Eileen Willis. Additionally, this issue will comprise a section on “gender and diversity”, with guest editors Dr Sue Ressia and Dr Shalene Werth. If you would like to submit your conference paper for consideration, please note the following activity deadline:
 

•         Paper submission deadline – 30 June 2018

(submit your work to the Labour and Industry journal website at: http://www.edmgr.com/rlab/default.aspx)
 
Papers will be reviewed over July and August 2018, with a view to finalising and publishing them in September 2018. Please note: submissions must be papers presented at the AIRAANZ conference.
 
If you have any queries about the submission process for this special issue, please email Jane Halteh (jane.halteh@gmail.com)

Dear colleagues

This is a reminder that the deadline for submission of articles to the Journal of Industrial Relations' special issue on Migration and Work is 1 October 2017. 

The Call for Papers is at the following link

Regards,

Guest Editors:

Stephen Clibborn - stephen.clibborn@sydney.edu.au

Chris F Wright - chris.f.wright@sydney.edu.au

Pre-ISA 2018 World Congress Workshop, York University, Sunday 15 July

Dear Colleagues

I would like to draw your attention to a workshop we plan to hold in conjunction with York University immediately before the 2018 ISA. This is being organized by Professor Michele Ford, Dr Michael Gillan and Professor Dimitris Stevis with the University of Sydney and York University co-sponsors.

This one-day consists of 4 sessions, featuring structured conversations rather than papers, on the following themes:

• The Global Unions and their Organizational Logics
• Emerging Repertoires of Action
• Environment
• Migration

For more information including guiding questions for the sessions contact Michele Ford (michele.ford@sydney.edu.au).

The workshop will be catered, and involves no registration costs. We do not have the resources to support travel, but we have scheduled it so that participants can build it into their ISA schedule. The workshop is being organized in conjunction with three panels at the ISA 2018:

• Assessing the Supranational Strategies of International Labour Movement Organizations
• Labor and the Forces of Nature: Prospects, Paradoxes and Perspectives
• Labor and Nature: Breadth, Depth and Worker Agency (integrative session)

Mike, Dimitris and I would be delighted if you were interested in participating in the workshop or one of the panels. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Michele Ford (michele.ford@sydney.edu.au)

RC44 (Research Committee on Labour Movements) is running an exciting program of sessions at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Toronto, Canada, July15-21, 2018.
 
AIRAANZ members are invited to propose a paper for any of the sessions.
 
LIST OF SESSIONS (RC44)
Program Coordinator:
Bridget KENNY, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, Bridget.Kenny@wits.ac.za
Sessions:
 
International Labour Solidarity in the Americas: Exploring New Research and Developments
 
Labour Movements Under Rekindled Nationalism
 
Academic Labour in Times of Authoritarianism, Violence and Injustice
 
Assessing the Supranational Strategies of International Labour Movement Organizations
 
Authors Meet Critics
 
China’s Labor in Global Services and Transnational Production
 
Connections Between Indigenous Peoples’ Movements and Labour Movements
 
Free Trade, Labour Movements and the Search for Alternatives
 
Informal and Precarious Worker Organizing Under Global Capitalism
 
Labour and Populism: Trajectories, Dilemmas, and Opportunities
 
Labour and the Forces of Nature: Prospects, Paradoxes and Perspectives
 
Learning from Migrant Labour Struggles: Innovative Initiatives of Precarious Workers
 
Organizing in a Gig Economy: Atomized Work and the Labor Movement
 
Precarious Labour, Life and Urban Struggle
 
RC44 Roundtable
 
The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario (Joint Session with RC44 Labour Movements)
 
Trade Unions in Transformation: Acquiring and Applying Power Resources
 
Xenophobia, Anti-Migrant Politics, and Workers’ Movements
 
 
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The call for papers is open until September 30.  To access the call for abstracts, please go to our website and follow the links. You will need to upload an abstract to the specific Session.
http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-networks/research-committees/rc44-labor-movements
 
Or follow the links from the ISA main page for the Congress:
http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts

Labour and industry now has a LinkedIn Group aiming to provide a social platform for like-minded researchers and practitioners to discuss issues related to work, people and employment relations. The Editorial Team of the Journal will also announce journal related news within the group. Please join the social space by visiting on LinkedIn.