IIRC 2024:

To mark 75 years of our labor and industrial relations research and education, we at XLRI Xavier School of Management in Jamshedpur, India with Leeds University Business School, Leeds, the UK are calling on the academic and research fraternity to submit their chosen work to be presented at the two-day International Industrial Relations Conference at XLRI in Jamshedpur from 08-09 January 2024.

Our invitation is to scholars from disciplines such as industrial relations, law, economics, sociology, psychology, political science, history, labor geography, and anthropology who have produced a range of evidence-based empirical, conceptual, and theoretical research to advance theory and contribute to policy-making. 

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 

• Full papers: The submission of abstracts should comply with the following guidelines: Abstracts in English should be no longer than 500 words and cover research question(s), methodology, and findings with a maximum of four keywords
• As the changing world of work in the Global South has significant implications for labor, businesses, and society as a whole, we are particularly interested in research that addresses issues.

List of Topics

• Employment and labor market effects of the current global crises
• Technology innovation, work, and employment
• Flexibility, autonomy, and labor process
• Gender, equality, and work
• Labor and social movements, trade unions, and collective bargaining
• Pandemic, care work, and Global South
• Labor movement strategies and policies to mitigate the unequal effects of crises
• Comparative institutional perspectives on regulations that are effective in mitigating the
• effects of crises on the working class
• Modern-day slavery and migrant workers
• Sustainable and green work

Committees

Program Committee

• Fr. Sebastian George, S J
• Prof. Andy Charlwood
• Prof. Santanu Sarkar
• Prof. Arup Varma
• Prof. R K Premarajan
• Prof. Markus Helfen
• Prof. Takahiro Endo
• Prof. Meichun Liu

Venue

The conference will be held in XLRI Jamshedpur, India between 08-09 January 2024

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to irconference@xlri.ac.in and ssarkar@xlri.ac.in