2-day International Industrial Relations conference at XLRI Jamshedpur from 8th of January to 9th of January 2024
The conference, titled ‘Changing World of Labour and Work in the Global South’ features experts from various disciplines, including industrial relations, law, economics, sociology, psychology, political science, history, labour geography and anthropology, who have conducted evidence-based research to advance theory and policy-making.
Participants from 40 institutions from 10 countries will present 42 research papers in 12 parallel sessions over two days, chaired by nine different chairpersons from the UK, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland and Argentina. The sessions will be spread across two days.
Santanu Sarkar, a labor relations professor at XLRI, chaired a conference that took nearly a year to organise. The conference aimed to allow scholars across borders to interact and appreciate the diversity of thoughts and ideas. Santanu Sarkar and Andy Charlwood collaborated with colleagues from other universities to select research addressing various issues, which are:
- Employment and labour market effects of the current global crises
- Technology innovation, work and employment
- Flexibility, autonomy and labour process
- Gender, equality and work
- Labour and social movements, trade unions and collective bargaining
- Pandemic, care work and Global South
- Labour 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
