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International Labour Review
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Peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and international journal in labour and employment studies, aiming to advance academic research on the world of work.
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We’re tearing down the paywalls! 🚀🔓

The International Labour Review is going Open Access—100+ years of world-of-work research, now free for all.

No barriers 🚧, no limits 🚀, just knowledge 📚✨

Proud to team up with @openlibhums.bsky.social to make this happen!

👀 More: ow.ly/e41850VuqAV
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La Reseña también está disponible en Español en Revista Internacional del Trabajo 144 (4): doi.org/10.16995/ilr...
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
📖 How did wage-employment institutions help France navigate the COVID-19 crisis?

Jean-Pascal Higelé reviews "Face au Covid, l’enjeu du salariat" (ed. Claude Didry) in our finale issue for 2025.

🌍 Read now in English, French & Spanish via @openlibhums.org
Published (in French) in @ilr-rit.bsky.social / Revue internationale du Travail > Jean-Pascal Higelé reviews "Face au Covid, l’enjeu du salariat", edited by Claude Didry: doi.org/10.16995/ilr...
<em>Face au Covid, l’enjeu du salariat</em>, edited by Claude Didry
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December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🌐 How do digital labour platforms shape inequality in legal services?

The latest #InsightsfromILR blog uncovers how gendered inequalities persist on platforms, even when they seem less hierarchical.

📉 Persistent gender pay gaps
👩‍💻 Women earning less & leaving sooner

🔗 Read: bit.ly/3XMHgr2
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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📢New article!

WEI members Eva Herman, Jill Rubery, Isabel Tavora and Alejandro Castillo along with colleague Abbie Winton (University of Leeds) have published a new article in the International Labour Review!

Have a read of the article here 👉 en.ilr-rit.org/article/pubi...
Bargaining on the front line: What role did collective bargaining play in protecting/advancing the interests of front-line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Drawing on 12 case studies across 10 countries of how trade unions and collective bargaining institutions supported front-line workers in healthcare, social care and food retail, this article finds th...
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August 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
‼️ A timely contribution from colleagues at @workequalities.bsky.social in our Issue 3 for 2025: A powerful analysis of how collective bargaining supported front line workers through the challenges of #COVID19.

An essential read for scholars working on labour institutions and worker voice 🏢📣
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🌍 How are global value chains and digital tech shaping work in Europe?

Our new #InsightsfromILR blog breaks it down.

📉 Lower wages
📈 Small gains in job quality
🤖 Tech exposure with limited impact

🔗Read the full blogpost: bit.ly/4oLwcGp
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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New publication in the @ilr-rit.bsky.social / International Labour Review: An incomplete double movement: Spain’s legislative strategy for platform courier reclassification by Tiago Vieira: doi.org/10.16995/ilr...
An incomplete <em>double movement</em>: Spain’s legislative strategy for platform courier reclassification
Digital labour platforms, which have long operated outside conventional employment frameworks, are now facing a regulatory drive. Spain seems to be at the forefront of this international effort, notab...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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I explore how Spain’s efforts to bring platform couriers into standard employment relations have affected their working and living conditions (#LeyRider but not only), and how workers’ representatives and public authorities have (not) been able to leverage the new right to #algorithmic transparency.
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Felicidades, Tiago! 🎉

Forthcoming in our final issue of 2025, this study conducted @eui-eu.bsky.social, helps understand 🇪🇸's efforts to re-embed platform couriers within standard employment relationships.

🌟 Supporting early-career scholarship remains central to our mission.

📚 Read: bit.ly/4nYk4kf
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
How do labour rights shape the economy? ⚖️📈

📖 In our final issue of 2025, César F. Rosado Marzán reviews Adrián Todolí-Signes’s (@uv.es) attempt to revisit the big question: Do employment rights boost economic performance?

🌍 Get early view now via @openlibhums.org
Published in @ilr-rit.bsky.social / International Labour Review > César F. Rosado Marzán reviews "Labour Law and Economic Policy: How Employment Rights Improve the Economy", by Adrián Todolí-Signes: doi.org/10.16995/ilr...
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🔖 Early view content via @openlibhums.org

Albert Berry (@utoronto.ca) reviews a book tracing nearly 50 years of economic change, artisan work and informality in Ecuador 🇪🇨

📖🌐 Forthcoming in our Issue 4 for 2025!
Published in @ilr-rit.bsky.social / International Labour Review: Albert Berry reviews The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms, by Alan Middleton: doi.org/10.16995/ilr...
Book review - The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms, by Alan Middleton
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November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Our latest issue dives into today’s defining labour challenges- from frontline bargaining during COVID-19 to automation, platform work, and gender inequality.

📖 Explore Volume 164, Issue 3 (2025)
👉 ilo.org/ilr
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🚨 Green ≠ always decent! 🚨

Forthcoming in our Issue 1 for 2026, @mathisbachelot.bsky.social & Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière from @univlille.bsky.social use 🇫🇷 data to show how green jobs can mean lower pay & less security for some. 📉👩‍🔧

#SustainableWork #GreenTransition
Excited to announce that, together with Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière, our article entitled "What is the quality of green jobs? An empirical investigation on French data" has been accepted in the @ilr-rit.bsky.social. The postprint is already available: lilloa.univ-lille.fr/handle/20.50...
October 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
✨ A glimpse of what’s coming in Issue 3 next month: unions and social dialogue were lifelines for frontline workers during the pandemic.

🔖 Read the early view article via @openlibhums.org ⬇️

#CollectiveBargaining #DecentWork #FrontlineWorkers #COVID19
August 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
🤖 Is tech giving workers more freedom… or boxing them in?

📊 Fresh in the International Labour Review, our new research dives into AI and automation’s real impact on self-employment in Europe.

The results might surprise you.

🔗 bit.ly/4fxBUbd

#FutureOfWork #AI #DecentWork #LabourRights
August 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
✨ Fresh from our latest issue: Can local industrial relations really raise labour standards in global supply chains?

💡📊 Based on a decade of #BetterWork data, this research shows change is possible even in challenging contexts.

🔗 bit.ly/3H2zaWL

#LabourRights #DecentWork #GlobalSupplyChains
August 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📢 Hot off the press: International Labour Review Issue 2/2025 is here! 🗞️🌍

From migration and mismatch to unions, tech and climate, this issue spans Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and global supply chains.

🧵 Highlights below ⬇️

🔗 bit.ly/4lmf2Oc

#ILR #LabourResearch #OpenAccess #DecentWork
July 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
’Tis the (conference) season! 🎓🌏

From📍 #RDW2025 in Geneva to📍 #LLRN7 in Bangkok, we connected with familiar faces in new cities to join dynamic conversations shaping the future of work ✊🗞️

#LabourResearch #OpenAccess #DecentWork
July 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
📢 It’s #DomesticWorkersDay!

To mark the day, we’re spotlighting our Special Issue on the formalization of paid domestic work 📝👩🏽‍🦱

Published in 2024, it brings together rich research from across the globe 🌍

🧵 Highlights below ⬇️

#ILR #LabourResearch #OpenAccess
June 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
👋 We talked peer review, publishing tips, and the future of work, what more could you want from a conference coffee break? ☕📖

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Meet the Managing Editor at #ILC2025!

Missed it? We’ve still got copies waiting for you at the Publications stand🗞️😉
June 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
📚 From the ILR shelves to the floor of #ILC2025!

We’re here at the International Labour Conference 🎤✨

Huge thanks to everyone who’s stopped by to grab their copy 🙌

Haven’t yet? Swing by the Publications stand & pick yours up! 🗞️💼

@aristeakoukiadaki.bsky.social @leovita-finzi.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
✨ We love to see labour research shine! ✨

🎉 Huge congrats to Leda Pérez & Andrea Gandolfi — @lasabluesky.bsky.social 🧠 Labour Studies section gave an honourable mention 🏅 to their ILR article on domestic workers & disformality in Peru!

🔍 Read the piece: bit.ly/3ZwPrsG
May 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🌍 Flavia Maximo calls for sustainability frameworks that centre communities facing the real costs of extraction.

Read how the latest ILR Special Issue brings decolonial thought to the heart of #SustainableWork:

🔗 bit.ly/4jEG7Ls

#Acasky #LabourResearch #OpenAccess #OA
May 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
📢 What if sustainability was redefined by those most affected by extractivism?

In our latest blog, Ania Zbyszewska imagines what #SustainableWork could mean when rooted in care, land, and community.

🔗 bit.ly/4jEG7Ls

#LabourResearch #OpenAccess #Acasky
May 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🗣️ Language matters. Access matters. History matters.

Dr Katherine Parker-Hay reflects on ILR's history and what’s next for our move to @janewayolh.bsky.social & @openlibhums.bsky.social: multilingual, equitable, and transparent publishing🌱
April 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM