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Me and Assaf S Bondy continue our efforts to understand employment relations in Israel/Palestine during conflict by analysing the political dynamics of inclusion/exclusion of noncitizen workers in Israel following October 2023, @wesjnl.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ERU and @wiserd-research.bsky.social will be hosting the launch of the Handbook on the Sociology of Work, 13:00 on 15 April 2026, in Cardiff University. Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book launch: Handbook on the Sociology of Work

You are warmly invited to join us for the launch of this Handbook. Please confirm your attendance for catering purposes.

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Deadline fast approaching! Submit now to BUIRA annual conference. Please share widely!

British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA)@buiraonline.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BUIRA 2026 *** submissions deadline extended to 27th March *** due to many requests. Details below. Please share: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...

BUIRA 2026 *** submissions deadline extended to 27th March *** due to many requests. Details below. Please share: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...

Deadline very close! Submit to BUIRA 2026 before 8th March! 🎉🎉🎉 Details below

British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA)@buiraonline.bsky.social · 6mo ago

*** deadline extended to 8 March *** Submit your abstracts to BUIRA annual conference - details below 🎉🎉🎉

*** deadline extended to 8 March *** Submit your abstracts to BUIRA annual conference - details below 🎉🎉🎉

British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA)@buiraonline.bsky.social · 7mo ago

BUIRA Annual Conference 2026: Regulation in a Time of Disruption, 23-25 June, Essex University. Call for papers now open: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...

🔶New issue of Futures of Work. This issue explores how borders shape workers’ lives, treating them not as neutral lines but as contested and ideological forces. The articles show how bordering practices structure labour mobility and inequality. futuresofwork.co.uk

Futures of Work

A space for radical critiques of the changing world of work

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My contribution to this great new issue of Futures of Work: "The constitutive and discursive role of borders in neoliberal settler-colonialism" - futuresofwork.co.uk/2026/01/27/t...

The constitutive and discursive role of borders in neoliberal settler-colonialism

The article argues that in Israel–Palestine borders function less as markers of sovereignty than as tools that manage, depoliticise and exploit Palestinian labour while sustaining the fiction of a …

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BUIRA Annual Conference 2026: Regulation in a Time of Disruption, 23-25 June, Essex University. Call for papers now open: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...

Superb new book on the 1926 General Strike in this 100th anniversary year @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/product/revi...

Our Handbook on the Sociology of Work is out! With Chris Rees, @odulbozkurt.bsky.social and Stephanie Limoncelli, and many truly wonderful chapter authors: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

BUIRA History of IR study group seminar: The Marriage Bar in the UK - Case Studies from the BBC and Teaching. 2 Dec 17:30-19:15 with Kate Murphy and Harriet Samuels www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-marria...

The Marriage Bar in the UK: Case Studies from the BBC and Teaching

BUIRA History of Industrial Relations Study Group in association with ProBE Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment

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“Protected profit” and value sharing to boost non-interfering investment, employee ownership and democratic businesses: Guy Major and I continue to develop our model for external investment while retaining full worker control to promote democratic business. www.emerald.com/jpeo/article...

“Protected profit” and value sharing to boost non-interfering investment, employee ownership and democratic businesses

Purpose. Employee ownership (EO) and profit sharing have numerous benefits. Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) are proliferating, but EO could grow faster by harnessing “non-interfering”, risk-sharing i...

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ERU is delighted to start the year with a panel on Digital Work, in collaboration with @cusocsci.bsky.social, featuring Agnieszka Rydik @agnirydzik.bsky.social and Mattia Dessi @mattiadessifrau.bsky.social, Nov 12 at 12:00, @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social

Save the date!! BUIRA 2026 conference will be held on 23-25 June in the Wivenhoe campus of Essex University

Prof Peter Turnbull gives the presidential address at BUIRA 2025, held at the University of Exeter, Cornwall campus - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP9p...

BUIRA 2025 Presidential Address - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s)

YouTube video by BUIRA Online

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A timely investigation into democracy and trade unionism by @assafbondy.bsky.social - I suspect we'll be seeing more of this kind of study as democracy appears ever more under threat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Workers for democracy? Trade unions and the struggle against democratic backsliding

As champions of workplace and economic democracy, as well as promoters of parliamentary (liberal) democracy, trade unions have an established historical link to democracy. Recent decades have seen ...

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How do internal borders shape and control noncitizen workers? That's the question at the heart of my recent article, Internal Borders and the Shaping of Noncitizen Workers in the Context of Ethnonational and Territorial Conflict: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Internal Borders and the Shaping of Noncitizen Workers in the Context of Ethnonational and Territorial Conflict - Jonathan Preminger, 2025

This article explores the role of internal borders in shaping conditions for noncitizen workers in the context of ethnonational and territorial conflict. Based ...

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Dr Maha Sabbah-Karkabi, Montague Burton visiting scholar @erucardiffu.bsky.social presenting her work on barriers to employment for Palestinian Arabs in Israel: a fascinating and very important topic in Israel's complex and painful sociopolitical reality

ERU is delighted to be hosting Dr Maha Sabbah-Karkabi (Sociology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), who will present her work on barriers to employment for Palestinian Arabs in Israel, on 12th March @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social @haupti.bsky.social @jonathanpreminger.bsky.social

Today at @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social it's happening! Fantastic scholars on Agents and Agency in the Implementation of Tech at Work, with Kendra Briken @unistrathclyde.bsky.social Dean Stroud and Caroline Lloyd @cusocsci.bsky.social Looking forward to it 🎉🎉🎉

"Agents and agency in the implementation of tech at work" - ERU/SOCSI panel with Kendra Briken, Dean Stroud and Caroline Lloyd, Wed 5th: looking forward to it!

BUIRA Annual Conference 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place – The Geographies of Good Work Call for papers! June 25-27 2025 | PhD Day: June 24 University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall www.buira.net/conferences/...

BUIRA 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place - The Geographies of Good Work - Buira

June 25-27 2025  |  Pre-conference PhD Day: June 24 University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall Submit your abstracts […]

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