International Labour Review
@ilr-rit.bsky.social
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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The article by Debra Howcroft & Claire Mumford is published in our Issue 3 for 2025.
🔗 Read the full article: bit.ly/4hcSKwV
The article by Debra Howcroft & Claire Mumford is published in our Issue 3 for 2025.
🔗 Read the full article: bit.ly/4hcSKwV
Platforms as inequality regimes: Researching legal services
This article examines how inequalities in traditional labour markets shape experiences and outcomes on platform work. The research applies Acker’s framework of inequality regimes, with a focus on gend...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Want the full picture behind these findings? 📘
The article by Debra Howcroft & Claire Mumford is published in our Issue 3 for 2025.
🔗 Read the full article: bit.ly/4hcSKwV
The article by Debra Howcroft & Claire Mumford is published in our Issue 3 for 2025.
🔗 Read the full article: bit.ly/4hcSKwV
💬 “Women averaged £48 an hour… men £99.”
Claire Mumford (@unilancashire.bsky.social) shows how gendered assumptions of value shape platform earnings, with men leveraging past career advantages while women face persistent pay gaps. ⚖️📊
Claire Mumford (@unilancashire.bsky.social) shows how gendered assumptions of value shape platform earnings, with men leveraging past career advantages while women face persistent pay gaps. ⚖️📊
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
💬 “Women averaged £48 an hour… men £99.”
Claire Mumford (@unilancashire.bsky.social) shows how gendered assumptions of value shape platform earnings, with men leveraging past career advantages while women face persistent pay gaps. ⚖️📊
Claire Mumford (@unilancashire.bsky.social) shows how gendered assumptions of value shape platform earnings, with men leveraging past career advantages while women face persistent pay gaps. ⚖️📊
💬 “Platforms operate in the shadow of the traditional labour market… inequalities are amplified.”
Debra Howcroft (@manchester.ac.uk) reminds us that gendered constraints don’t disappear online; they follow workers onto legal service platforms. ⚖️📲✨
Debra Howcroft (@manchester.ac.uk) reminds us that gendered constraints don’t disappear online; they follow workers onto legal service platforms. ⚖️📲✨
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
💬 “Platforms operate in the shadow of the traditional labour market… inequalities are amplified.”
Debra Howcroft (@manchester.ac.uk) reminds us that gendered constraints don’t disappear online; they follow workers onto legal service platforms. ⚖️📲✨
Debra Howcroft (@manchester.ac.uk) reminds us that gendered constraints don’t disappear online; they follow workers onto legal service platforms. ⚖️📲✨
🔖 Read the full article published in our Issue 3 for 2025, now #OA and available in English, French & Spanish.
👉 bit.ly/3XEb74Q
👉 bit.ly/3XEb74Q
The joint impact of global value chains and technological exposure on job quality and wages in Europe
We use a micro-level dataset for workers from 22 European countries to assess whether technological exposure affects the relationship between global value chains (GVCs) and working conditions, quantif...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🔖 Read the full article published in our Issue 3 for 2025, now #OA and available in English, French & Spanish.
👉 bit.ly/3XEb74Q
👉 bit.ly/3XEb74Q
🌐 Dagmara Nikulin shares insights from 22 🇪🇺 countries to explain the current limits of technological transformation in the world of work 👇
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🌐 Dagmara Nikulin shares insights from 22 🇪🇺 countries to explain the current limits of technological transformation in the world of work 👇
💬 Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz explains: “We challenge the notion that 🇪🇺 integration into global production or rapid adoption of AI will automatically upgrade working conditions”
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
💬 Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz explains: “We challenge the notion that 🇪🇺 integration into global production or rapid adoption of AI will automatically upgrade working conditions”
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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
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.
How did collective bargaining protect essential workers during COVID-19? Jill Rubery, Isabel Távora, @abbiewinton.bsky.social, Eva Herman & Alejandro Castillo (@workequalities.bsky.social @officialuom.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social) show how unions voiced their concerns.
🔗 bit.ly/43iVgfl
🔗 bit.ly/43iVgfl
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
How did collective bargaining protect essential workers during COVID-19? Jill Rubery, Isabel Távora, @abbiewinton.bsky.social, Eva Herman & Alejandro Castillo (@workequalities.bsky.social @officialuom.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social) show how unions voiced their concerns.
🔗 bit.ly/43iVgfl
🔗 bit.ly/43iVgfl
The limits of reform: 🇦🇷’s Economic and Social Council offered lessons on coordination and institutional design.
By Juan Federico von Zeschau (@universidadgranada.bsky.social) & Marcial Sánchez-Mosquera (@unisevilla.bsky.social)
🔗 bit.ly/3KLmncN
By Juan Federico von Zeschau (@universidadgranada.bsky.social) & Marcial Sánchez-Mosquera (@unisevilla.bsky.social)
🔗 bit.ly/3KLmncN
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The limits of reform: 🇦🇷’s Economic and Social Council offered lessons on coordination and institutional design.
By Juan Federico von Zeschau (@universidadgranada.bsky.social) & Marcial Sánchez-Mosquera (@unisevilla.bsky.social)
🔗 bit.ly/3KLmncN
By Juan Federico von Zeschau (@universidadgranada.bsky.social) & Marcial Sánchez-Mosquera (@unisevilla.bsky.social)
🔗 bit.ly/3KLmncN
🏡 Conscientious, open workers thrive in remote work.
Extroverts, not so much. Research from @nicogavoille.bsky.social & Mihails Hazans explores work-from-home productivity.
🔗 bit.ly/47r2VdU
Extroverts, not so much. Research from @nicogavoille.bsky.social & Mihails Hazans explores work-from-home productivity.
🔗 bit.ly/47r2VdU
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🏡 Conscientious, open workers thrive in remote work.
Extroverts, not so much. Research from @nicogavoille.bsky.social & Mihails Hazans explores work-from-home productivity.
🔗 bit.ly/47r2VdU
Extroverts, not so much. Research from @nicogavoille.bsky.social & Mihails Hazans explores work-from-home productivity.
🔗 bit.ly/47r2VdU
In 🇰🇷, economic growth always ≠ better jobs.
Sangwon Lee (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social) & Francis Green (@ucl.ac.uk) find mixed trends: less overwork, but weaker prospects and skills use.
🔗 bit.ly/3J1VXCY
Sangwon Lee (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social) & Francis Green (@ucl.ac.uk) find mixed trends: less overwork, but weaker prospects and skills use.
🔗 bit.ly/3J1VXCY
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
In 🇰🇷, economic growth always ≠ better jobs.
Sangwon Lee (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social) & Francis Green (@ucl.ac.uk) find mixed trends: less overwork, but weaker prospects and skills use.
🔗 bit.ly/3J1VXCY
Sangwon Lee (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social) & Francis Green (@ucl.ac.uk) find mixed trends: less overwork, but weaker prospects and skills use.
🔗 bit.ly/3J1VXCY
👩👧👦 The motherhood penalty hits low-wage workers hardest. Abhijit Sharma, Stefano Grillini (@huddersfielduni.bsky.social) & Richard Woodward (@tudublin.bsky.social) find inequality shifts across income levels.
🔗 bit.ly/3KXkglY
🔗 bit.ly/3KXkglY
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
👩👧👦 The motherhood penalty hits low-wage workers hardest. Abhijit Sharma, Stefano Grillini (@huddersfielduni.bsky.social) & Richard Woodward (@tudublin.bsky.social) find inequality shifts across income levels.
🔗 bit.ly/3KXkglY
🔗 bit.ly/3KXkglY
⚖️ Platforms aren’t neutral. Debra Howcroft (@officialuom.bsky.social) & @claremumford.bsky.social show how digital platforms replicate gendered inequalities from law firms.
🔗 bit.ly/4hcSKwV
🔗 bit.ly/4hcSKwV
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
⚖️ Platforms aren’t neutral. Debra Howcroft (@officialuom.bsky.social) & @claremumford.bsky.social show how digital platforms replicate gendered inequalities from law firms.
🔗 bit.ly/4hcSKwV
🔗 bit.ly/4hcSKwV
🤖 Do AI & global value chains improve job quality?
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Aleksandra Parteka & Dagmara Nikulin show GVCs can slightly improve working conditions but reduce wages.
🔗 bit.ly/43gMU7X
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Aleksandra Parteka & Dagmara Nikulin show GVCs can slightly improve working conditions but reduce wages.
🔗 bit.ly/43gMU7X
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🤖 Do AI & global value chains improve job quality?
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Aleksandra Parteka & Dagmara Nikulin show GVCs can slightly improve working conditions but reduce wages.
🔗 bit.ly/43gMU7X
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Aleksandra Parteka & Dagmara Nikulin show GVCs can slightly improve working conditions but reduce wages.
🔗 bit.ly/43gMU7X