Industrial Relations Journal

1981 - 2025

Current editor(s): Peter Nolan

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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

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 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