🔶New issue of Futures of Work.

This issue explores how borders shape workers’ lives, treating them not as neutral lines but as contested and ideological forces. The articles show how bordering practices structure labour mobility and inequality.

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My contribution to this great new issue of Futures of Work: "The constitutive and discursive role of borders in neoliberal settler-colonialism" - futuresofwork.co.uk/2026/01/27/t...

BUIRA Annual Conference 2026: Regulation in a Time of Disruption, 23-25 June, Essex University. Call for papers now open: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...

Superb new book on the 1926 General Strike in this 100th anniversary year @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social

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Our Handbook on the Sociology of Work is out! With Chris Rees, @odulbozkurt.bsky.social and Stephanie Limoncelli, and many truly wonderful chapter authors: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

BUIRA History of IR study group seminar: The Marriage Bar in the UK - Case Studies from the BBC and Teaching.
2 Dec 17:30-19:15 with Kate Murphy and Harriet Samuels
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“Protected profit” and value sharing to boost non-interfering investment, employee ownership and democratic businesses:
Guy Major and I continue to develop our model for external investment while retaining full worker control to promote democratic business.
www.emerald.com/jpeo/article...

ERU is delighted to start the year with a panel on Digital Work, in collaboration with @cusocsci.bsky.social, featuring Agnieszka Rydik @agnirydzik.bsky.social and Mattia Dessi @mattiadessifrau.bsky.social, Nov 12 at 12:00, @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social

Save the date!! BUIRA 2026 conference will be held on 23-25 June in the Wivenhoe campus of Essex University

Prof Peter Turnbull gives the presidential address at BUIRA 2025, held at the University of Exeter, Cornwall campus - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP9p...

A timely investigation into democracy and trade unionism by @assafbondy.bsky.social - I suspect we'll be seeing more of this kind of study as democracy appears ever more under threat
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How do internal borders shape and control noncitizen workers? That's the question at the heart of my recent article, Internal Borders and the Shaping of Noncitizen Workers in the Context of Ethnonational and Territorial Conflict: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Dr Maha Sabbah-Karkabi, Montague Burton visiting scholar @erucardiffu.bsky.social presenting her work on barriers to employment for Palestinian Arabs in Israel: a fascinating and very important topic in Israel's complex and painful sociopolitical reality

ERU is delighted to be hosting Dr Maha Sabbah-Karkabi (Sociology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), who will present her work on barriers to employment for Palestinian Arabs in Israel, on 12th March @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social @haupti.bsky.social @jonathanpreminger.bsky.social

Today at @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social it's happening! Fantastic scholars on Agents and Agency in the Implementation of Tech at Work, with Kendra Briken @unistrathclyde.bsky.social Dean Stroud and Caroline Lloyd @cusocsci.bsky.social
Looking forward to it 🎉🎉🎉

"Agents and agency in the implementation of tech at work" - ERU/SOCSI panel with Kendra Briken, Dean Stroud and Caroline Lloyd, Wed 5th: looking forward to it!

BUIRA Annual Conference 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place – The Geographies of Good Work

Call for papers!

June 25-27 2025 | PhD Day: June 24
University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall

www.buira.net/conferences/...