Jamshedpur | Jharkhand
To mark 75 years of our labour and industrial relations research and education, we at XLRI Xavier School of Management in Jamshedpur, India with Leeds University Business School, Leeds, the UK and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), New Delhi, India have organised a two-day International Industrial Relations Conference at XLRI in Jamshedpur from 08-09 January 2024.
The two-day conference on a contemporary theme – changing world of labour and work in the global south has a participation of 60 delegates from disciplines such as industrial relations, law, economics, sociology, psychology, political science, history, labour geography, and anthropology who have produced a range of evidence-based empirical, conceptual and theoretical research to advance theory and contribute to policy-making.
These participants drawn from 40 institutions from 10 different countries including the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, Argentina and so on will present 42 research papers in 12 parallel sessions spread across the two days. These sessions are chaired by nine different session chairpersons drawn from different nations including the UK, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and so on. There are two keynote speeches delivered by Prof. Mark Stuart of the Leeds University Business School and Mr. Amitav Mukherjee, the CHRO of ITC Ltd. Besides the delegates in the conference have two workshops on academic writing where they meet the editors of top ranked journals in management.
Talking about the conference, Prof. Santanu Sarkar, who is a professor of labour relations at XLRI and also the chairperson of the conference shared that it took almost a year of careful planning and deliberation from receiving the submissions, reviewing them and finally having the authors of the scholarly works during the conference to present their work. He feels that the conference is the first of its kind in XLRI that will allow scholars across border to interact with each other and appreciate the diversity of thoughts and ideas. Prof. Sarkar with Prof. Andy Charlwood have worked with their colleagues from other universities in Europe, America and Asia in picking up research that addresses issues such as:
1. Employment and labour market effects of the current global crises
2. Technology innovation, work and employment
3. Flexibility, autonomy and labour process
4. Gender, equality and work
5. Labour and social movements, trade unions and collective bargaining
6. Pandemic, care work and Global South
7. Labour movement strategies and policies to mitigate the unequal effects of crises
8. Comparative institutional perspectives on regulations that are effective in mitigating the effects of crises on the working class
9. Modern-day slavery and migrant workers
10. Sustainable and green work.
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