Professor Ruth Milkman of the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (Sociology) gave the BJIR Annual Lecture on 21st January 2013. The lecture was chaired by Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of the LSE.

The title of the lecture was 'U.S. Labour in the New Gilded Age’. Against the background of the relentless decline of union density and power, and the growth of inequality and precarious forms of work, Professor Milkman explored the recent proliferation of new forms of labour organization, with illustrations from the United States, and the challenges these forms of organization are facing.

Please note Prof Milkman Lecture will be published as an article at the BJIR. More informaiton to come.

10th European Conference of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA)|

Imagining new employment relations and new solidarities

20-22 June 2013

Amsterdam

BJIR Annual Lecture 2011 with Professor Nancy Folbre|

Professor Nancy Folbre gave the 2011 Annual Lecture on the 29th of November 2011. Her lecture was titled: 'For Love and Money: The Distinctive Features of Care Work.'

The event took place at LSE, in the Sheikh Zayed Threatre, from 6:30 to 8:00pm, followed by a drinks reception.

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BJIR Annual Lecture 2010 with Professor Michael Piore

Professor Michael Piore, David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), gave a lecture entitled Whither Industrial Relations: Does it have a Future in Post-Industrial Society?

BJIR Conference and Special Issue on Outsourcing/Offshoring of Service Work

BJIR hosted the conference at LSE on 17th and 18th of November 2010, a selection of chosen papers were presented.

Tribute for Ben Roberts (1918-2011)

Ben Roberts, who started his working life as a milkman founded the LSE Industrial Relations Department in 1962. A year later Professor Roberts became Founding Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations. Ben was an expert on the British scene, but also hugley knowledgeable about the US and Europe. He had excellent links with firms, unions and policy-makers.

His Monday evening seminars - jointly with Henry Phelps Brown - were legendary: always heavyweight speakers and robust discussion. Ben was not part of the Oxford-Warwick-Donovan Report consensus. He believed strongly that the law has an important role to play in regulating employee relations and he promoted his view tirelessly via his activity with the Institute for Economic Affairs. He was also an early critic of the 1970s toxic mix of enhanced union power and lax monetary policy. He was right on both these major issues. Finally, Ben Roberts played an important role in the governance of the LSE. He was a safe pair of hands which helped LSE navigate the turmoil in 1968.

David Metcalf, June 2011

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