Industrial Relations Journal

1981 - 2025

Current editor(s): Peter Nolan

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Volume 56, issue 2, 2025

Working at Home and the Gender Wage Gap pp. 125-144

Elisa Birch and Alison Preston

Company‐Based Measures Securing Employment During the Pandemic in Germany pp. 145-157

Toralf Pusch and Hartmut Seifert

Financialisation, Underemployment and the Disconnected Greek Capitalism pp. 158-172

Giorgos Gouzoulis, Panagiotis (Takis) Iliopoulos and Giorgos Galanis

Towards Better Understanding of Party‐Union Relationship: An Empirical Analysis pp. 173-181

Paweł Kamiński and Szczepan Czarnecki

Trade Unions and the Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg By Peter Ackers, London: Routledge, 2024, 239 pp, £13500 pp. 182-185

Richard Hyman

Volume 56, issue 1, 2025

Repeated short‐term sickness absence: A problem to be handled or a symptom to be prevented? A qualitative case study pp. 3-21

Tanja Kirkegaard, Vita Ligaya P. Dalgaard and R. Grytnes

The sectoral consequences of private equity acquisitions: Spillovers in wages and employment pp. 22-45

Konstantinos Eleftheriou, Geoffrey Wood, Marilou Ioakimidis, Iliya Komarev and Dimitrios Thomakos

Measuring the 2022–2023 strike wave in Britain: ballots, participation and methodological implications pp. 46-74

Andy Hodder and Stephen Mustchin

Governance of labour relations in the platform economy. The cooperation between YouTubers Union and IG Metall pp. 75-96

Patrick Witzak and Markus Hertwig

The potential for a union default to convert nonunion workers into union members: The effects of beliefs about unions' consequences, free‐riding and social customs pp. 97-121

Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall and Margaret Wilson

Volume 55, issue 4, 2024

The union default: Free‐riding solutions pp. 267-284

Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall and Margaret Wilson

Differing industrial relations: The public and the private sector in Germany pp. 285-302

Werner Schmidt and Andrea Müller

Dancing at the crossroads: Lessons from Ireland on collective labour law reform pp. 303-325

Alan Eustace

Volume 55, issue 3, 2024

The effects of the socio‐demographic factors on judgement building in arbitration pp. 185-204

Maziar Jafary and Jules Carrière

Electronic monitoring of working time and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Brazil pp. 205-221

Ísis F. Lira, Laura de Carvalho Schiavon and Ricardo da Silva Freguglia

Trade unions, refugees and immigrant labour: Has the attitude changed? The stance of Swedish blue‐collar trade unions as evidenced by sentiment analysis pp. 222-239

Aliaksei Kazlou, Lin Lerpold and Örjan Sjöberg

Against the tide: A case of industrial relations transformation in the Indian coal sector pp. 240-263

Surendra Babu Talluri, Girish Balasubramanian and Santanu Sarkar

Volume 55, issue 2, 2024

Ad hoc decisions as latent strategies: How do firms use nonstandard employment contracts? pp. 81-99

Stef Bouwhuis, Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Mauricio Garnier‐Villarreal and Wendy Smits

Never cross the red line? Analysing employment relations practices and the behaviour of front‐line managers in Chinese McDonald's stores pp. 100-118

Wei Wei

Earnings inequality and the expansion of care services in the United States, 1985–2019 pp. 119-140

Leila Gautham, Nancy Folbre and Kristin Smith

The unlikely success of coordinated bargaining in a liberal market economy: The case of Ireland pp. 141-161

Valentina Paolucci and William K. Roche

Employee well‐being outcomes from individual‐level mental health interventions: Cross‐sectional evidence from the United Kingdom pp. 162-182

William J. Fleming

Volume 55, issue 1, 2024

Short‐term fix or remedy for market failure? Immigration policy as a distinct source of skills pp. 3-19

Chris F. Wright and Colm McLaughlin

Impacts of racial diversity and firm size on union voting behavior in Alabama pp. 20-32

Robert Armstrong, Michael Floren, Jason Imbrogno and Keith Malone

Ethnicity disparities in job control in the United Kingdom pp. 33-53

Mark Williams, Senhu Wang and Maria Koumenta

Missing voices: Office space discontent as a driving force in employee hybrid work preferences pp. 54-77

Lila Skountridaki, W. Victoria Lee and Lilinaz Rouhani

Volume 54, issue 6, 2023

Would you like to become a union leader? Analysing leadership intentions through a generational lens pp. 425-444

Christopher Gordon Smith, Tingting Zhang, Lorenzo Frangi and Linda Duxbury

It takes two to tango: Reconceptualizing union power and union effectiveness in a relational perspective pp. 445-470

Grégory Jemine

Disruption of the Ghent effect: Disentangling structural and institutional determinants of union membership decline in Sweden, 2005–2010 pp. 471-494

Jesper Prytz and Tomas Berglund

Volume 54, issue 4-5, 2023

Changing face of public agencies in workplace conflict resolution: A six country study pp. 281-303

Ariel C. Avgar, Alexander J. S. Colvin, Harry C. Katz, William Roche and Paul Teague

A fragmented and heavily privatized dispute resolution system: The United States pp. 304-320

Ariel C. Avgar, Alexander J. S. Colvin, Harry C. Katz and Katrina G. Nobles

Custodians of contemporary pluralism? Acas' evolving role in addressing conflict during a time of economic and regulatory flux pp. 321-340

Deborah Hann, Paul Latreille, David Nash and Richard Saundry

The changing face of public dispute resolution in New Zealand pp. 341-358

Erling Rasmussen and Danaë Anderson

Still central: Change and continuity in Australia's major industrial tribunal pp. 359-376

Mark Bray and Johanna Macneil

Status quo among fragmentation and consolidation: Public dispute resolution agencies in Ontario, Canada pp. 377-400

Dionne Pohler and Bradley R. Weinberg

Leadership and innovation by professionals: The changing face of public workplace conflict resolution in Ireland pp. 401-422

William K. Roche, Paul Teague and Denise Currie

Volume 54, issue 3, 2023

Is job quality better or worse? Insights from quiz data collected before and after the pandemic pp. 203-222

Rhys Davies and Alan Felstead

Breaking the deadlock: How union and employer tactics affect first contract achievement pp. 223-241

John Kallas, Dongwoo Park and Rachel Aleks

The effectiveness of international framework agreements as a tool for the protection of workers' rights: A metasynthesis pp. 242-260

Marc‐Antonin Hennebert, Isabelle Roberge‐Maltais and Urwana Coiquaud

Trade union strategies to tackle labour market insecurity: Geography and the role of Sheffield TUC pp. 261-277

David Etherington, Bob Jeffery, Peter Thomas, Martin Jones and Ben Ledger‐Jessop

Volume 54, issue 2, 2023

Civil society organisations in and against the state: Advice, advocacy and activism on the margins of the labour market pp. 117-131

Stephen Mustchin, Mathew Johnson and Marti Lopez‐Andreu

The union default: Effects and implications of regulated opting‐out pp. 132-149

Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall and Margaret Wilson

Covid‐19 and the work of trade unions: Adaptation, transition and renewal pp. 150-166

Tom Hunt and Heather Connolly

‘You see similarities more than differences after a while’. Communities of Practice in European industrial relations. The case of the hospital European Sectoral Social Dialogue pp. 167-185

Manuela Galetto, Sabrina Weber, Bengt Larsson, Barbara Bechter and Thomas Prosser

Towards rebuilding collective bargaining? Poland in the face of contemporary challenges and changing European social policy pp. 186-200

Łukasz Pisarczyk

Volume 54, issue 1, 2023

‘They tell us after they've decided things’: A cross‐country analysis of unions and digitalisation in retail pp. 3-19

Jonathan Payne, Caroline Lloyd and Secki P. Jose

Technological changes in the era of digitalization: What do collective agreements tell us? pp. 20-39

Véra‐Line Montreuil and Roland Foucher

Mutual interests management with a purposive approach: Evidence from the Turkish shipyards for an amorphous impact model between (subjective) well‐being and performance pp. 40-70

Surhan Cam and Serap Palaz

What do indebted employees do? Financialisation and the decline of industrial action pp. 71-94

Giorgos Gouzoulis

Can group identity explain the gender gap in the recruitment process? pp. 95-113

Igor Asanov and Maria Mavlikeeva