Industrial Relations Journal

1981 - 2026

Current editor(s): Peter Nolan

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Volume 57, issue 2, 2026

Why and How Workers Choose Less Work for Less Money: A Mixed‐Methods Study on a Working Time Reduction Scheme in Germany pp. 127-139

Thiago Guimarães, Miklós Antal and Benedikt Lehmann

Tracks of Solidarity: Public Opinion and Railway Worker Strikes pp. 140-149

Steven David Pickering and Martin Ejnar Hansen

Devolution and Power: Employment Rights, Bargaining and Risk pp. 150-159

Jean Jenkins, Helen Blakely and Rhys Davies

Sensemaking, Inequity and Agency in a Precarious Transnational Workspace: The Case of International Seafarers pp. 160-169

Nick Bailey and Nik Winchester

A Racialized Capitalism Perspective on the Work and Employment of Black and Minoritized Ethnic Workers Living With Sickle Cell Disorder pp. 170-180

Anne‐marie Greene, Maria Berghs, Karl Atkin and Simon Dyson

The Scottish Industrial Relations System: A Hybrid System Shaped by State Policy in Nation Building to Challenge the UK Liberal Market Economy Approach pp. 181-189

Melanie Simms

Where's the ‘Human’ in Human Resource Management? Managing Work in the 21st Century By Michael Gold and Chris Smith, Bristol University Press,2023. 452 pp. £39.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐52‐921380‐5 pp. 190-191

Tony Dobbins

Volume 57, issue 1, 2026

Enterprise Bargaining as a Lens to Understand the Relationship Between Union Leaders and Members: A Case Study of an Australian Frontline Workers' Union pp. 3-19

Jessica Borg, Justine Ferrer, Timothy Bartram, Patricia Pariona Cabrera, Hannah Meacham and Peter Holland

Do Labor Action Plans Work? Evidence From the U.S.–Colombia Labor Action Plan and Union Rights Violations pp. 20-31

Eduardo Mendoza Montoya and Carlos Eduardo Mendoza Leal

Losing Unequally: Financialisation, Productivity and the Finance Wage Premium pp. 32-46

Giorgos Gouzoulis and Iris Nikolopoulou

Revaluation of Essential Work: The Example of Elderly Care in Germany pp. 47-58

Gerhard Bosch and Michaela Evans‐Borchers

Financialisation and the (De‐)Unionisation of Workers in Portugal pp. 59-74

Ricardo Barradas

‘Equal Pay or we Walk Away’: Litigation and Industrial Action in the Glasgow City Council Equal Pay Dispute pp. 75-86

Frances C. Galt

Apprenticeships and Firm Performance an Empirical Investigation Using “Big Data” for All English Businesses pp. 87-101

Stefan Speckesser and Lei Xu

Platform Work in a High‐Crime City: Navigating Violence and Gendered Safety Strategies Among Uber Drivers in Johannesburg pp. 102-110

Percyval Bayane

The Methodological Challenges of Measuring the Duration of Strikes: Insights From Canada 1960–2024 pp. 111-124

Andy Hodder

Volume 56, issue 6, 2025

Explaining the Autonomy‐Control‐Paradox With the Rise of Remote Work pp. 427-440

Nina‐Sophie Fritsch, Wyatt Sophia and Bernd Liedl

Hard‐to‐Reach Insider Actors on Light‐Touch Labour Market Regulation in the UK: Compliance, Deterrence, and Intelligence? pp. 441-450

Ian Clark

‘Good Workers’ and the Moulding of Employee Voice and Silence in Big 4 Firms pp. 451-460

Brendan McCarthy, Michelle O'Sullivan, Elaine Doyle and Joan Ballantine

Timing is Everything: Lessons From a Trade Union Campaign for a ‘Right to Disconnect’ pp. 461-471

Caroline Murphy

Devolution and Industrial Relations: An Overview pp. 472-481

Edmund Heery

Devolution and Employment Relations in Northern Ireland pp. 482-491

Niall Cullinane

The Value of Industrial Relations: Contemporary Work and Employment in Britain By Andy Hodder and Stephen Mustchin (eds.), Bristol University Press, 2024. 158 pp. £27.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐52‐923695‐8 pp. 492-493

Peter Prowse

Volume 56, issue 5, 2025

‘I Can Just Do Work I'm Paid to Do’: Hybrid Work and Tertiary Labour Time Gains pp. 339-352

Lila Skountridaki and Oliver Mallett

Serf‐ing the Net: Contrasting Uber Workers in the United Kingdom With Uber Neo‐Villeins in Ontario pp. 353-362

Geraint Harvey, Naveena Prakasam and Refat Shakirzhanov

A Decade of Industrial Relations Research in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda pp. 363-381

Desmond Tutu Ayentimi, Albert Amankwaa and John Burgess

The Sea Change in UK Strike Statistics, Implications for Public Policy, and Misrepresentation of the 2022–2023 Strike Surge pp. 382-396

Dave Lyddon

Trade Unions, the Right to Strike and the Political Economy of Labour: The Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 pp. 397-410

Paul Smith

Pathways to Substate Variation in the UK's Employment Relations: The Case of the Welsh Government pp. 411-418

Leon Gooberman and Marco Hauptmeier

Concise Introduction to Employment Relations By Richard Hyman, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025. 148 pp. £21.56. ISBN: 978‐1‐80‐220749‐1 pp. 419-421

Manuela Galetto

Volume 56, issue 4, 2025

Vertical New Knowledge Transfer and the Revival of Multi‐Employer Collective Bargaining pp. 279-290

Søren Kaj Andersen and Chris F. Wright

Academic Capitalism and Precarity in the Neoliberal University: Job Insecurity and Stress in Two Liberal Market Economies pp. 291-300

Sean O'Brady, Greg J. Bamber and Brian Cooper

Right‐to‐Work Laws and Firm Productivity in U.S. Firms pp. 301-321

Mohamed Shaker Ahmed and Charilaos Mertzanis

German Trade Unions and Decarbonisation: A Transition to Green Growth, A‐Growth or Degrowth? pp. 322-333

Vera Trappmann, Dennis Eversberg and Felix Schulz

Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working Class Hero By Gall, G., Manchester University Press, 2024 pp. 334-335

Niall Cullinane

Volume 56, issue 3, 2025

The Incomplete Leap: On the Transition From Union Registration to the First Collective Agreement pp. 189-203

Vincent Jerald Ramos and Edgar Antonio Suguitan

Co‐Producing Employee Engagement Approaches in a Workplace Partnership: A Route to Partial Success in Public Health Workplaces pp. 204-213

Patricia Findlay, Colin Lindsay and Robert Stewart

Frames of Reference: Dynamics of Change and Frame Misalignment Between Employers and Unions pp. 214-225

Andrea Signoretti and Adrian Wilkinson

Current Trends of German Codetermination by Works Councils: On Path Dependencies, Erosion and Innovation pp. 226-235

Thomas Haipeter

Did COVID‐19 Level the Playing Field or Entrench It? Comparing Patterns of Homeworking by Ethnicity, Gender and Migration Status, Before, During and After COVID‐19 in the UK pp. 236-250

Heejung Chung and Shiyu Yuan

Work Intensification, Work–Life Conflict and Turnover Intentions in the Teaching Profession: Evidence From School Teachers in Quebec, Canada pp. 251-259

Sarah Nogues and Diane‐Gabrielle Tremblay

Fighting “Internal Erosion” Through Social Pacts? Collective Bargaining in Spain From the Great Recession to the Covid‐19 Crisis pp. 260-275

Luis Cardenas del Rey and Javier Arribas

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 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