Call for Papers: Special Issue of European Journal of Industrial Relations
Dear Colleagues
Please see below a call for papers which we hope will be of interest.
Best wishes
Anna Soulsby
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Call for Papers
European Journal of Industrial Relations
Work and Organization in the Age of Global Economic Crisis:
Industrial Relations in the Post-Socialist Societies of Europe
Guest Co-editors: Anna Soulsby, Graham Hollinshead, Thomas Steger
In this special issue, we invite comparative studies that examine growing
insecurities in the fields of work, organization and employment in Central and
Eastern Europe (CEE), including the effects of migration, in the context of the
international ‘crisis of capitalism’. We are interested in research that
investigates local responses (at the levels of the workplace, establishment or
industry) to the spread of uncontrolled market forces in the region and makes
connections to debates in the wider social sciences. We are particularly interested
in studies which analyse the latest phases of transition in CEE as subject to
contestation and negotiation by a plurality of groupings within economy and society,
and which bring to the fore the significance of class, gender and ethnicity. We
welcome submissions which capture the unevenness of developments since the financial
crisis through comparative analysis of changes in the institutional arrangements
impinging on work and employment. We also wish to explore whether, and how, the
particularly hostile environment for trade unionism in CEE is creating new avenues
for renewal and reinvention, and whether the resourcefulness and imagination
exhibited by trade unionists in the region offer real learning opportunities for the
international labour movement.
Key Dates and Contact Details:
Submission of extended abstracts (maximum 1000 words not including references):
29 December 2014.
Submission of full papers: 31 July 2015.
Please contact one of the guest co-editors, or the Editor, for any queries. The
abstract submission should be sent by e-mail attachment to the following:
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