Labnet: CFP: BJIR Conference 2009 in honour of Richard Hyman - deadline 16/01/09

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From: Rebecca Gumbrell gumbrell at gumbrell.f2s.com

Call for Papers

BJIR Conference 2009 in honour of Richard Hyman

New Submission deadline: 16th January 2009

BJIR is planning a conference and special issue in honour of Professor
Richard Hyman who is retiring in 2009 after a long and distinguished
career at the University of Warwick and, more recently, at the London
School of Economics.

Richard has been one of the most prominent figures in British and
European employment relations research for most of the past four
decades. He has written extensively on trade unions, industrial
conflict, and comparative industrial relations with his path-breaking
Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class, and
Society (2001) bringing these career-long interests together to great
effect. Yet Richard is, perhaps, best known for his theoretical
contributions with much of his early writing coming from a distinctive
Marxist perspective. Books such as Industrial Relations: a Marxist
Introduction (1975), Social Values and Industrial Relations (1975) and
The Political Economy of Industrial Relations (1989) encouraged
generations of students, researchers, and activists to view the
employment relationship in its wider social and political context. More
recently, Richard's work has moved in new directions with greater
emphasis on a more comparative and historically oriented approach to
trade unions, the state and employment relations. A tireless advocate of
the need for theory in an empirically driven field of study, Richard has
shown how the subject of employment relations can speak directly to
wider questions in the social sciences concerning power, efficiency, and
social inequality.

The BJIR is calling for papers which either engage with Richard Hyman's
own work or would add new value in his areas of interest. The main
themes include:

(i) Labour and employment relations theory;
(ii) Comparative European and international employment relations;
(iii) Trade union organization and strategy;
(iv) Strikes and industrial conflict;
(v) The relevance of history to employment relations research ;
(vi) Richard Hyman's contributions to employment relations and related
fields.

A selection of papers will be chosen for presentation at a special
conference to be held at the London School of Economics, in May 2009.
The papers presented at the conference will be included, subject to
BJIR's refereeing process, in a special issue of the journal which will
be published in 2010.

Those interested are invited to submit a one page abstract via Editorial
Express http://editorialexpress.com/bjir by 16th January 2009. If you
wish to discuss a proposed paper then please contact Carola Frege
(c.m.frege at lse.ac.uk) or Pat McGovern (p.mcgovern at lse.ac.uk).



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