Introduction to the AIRAANZ 2019 conference

What is it about?

The 2019 AIRAANZ Conference was held at RMIT University city campus located in central Melbourne. The broad theme of the conference was ‘Global Work, Quality Work’. At the conference there was over 140 presentations in addition to special roundtable discussions and two keynote addresses. As always the conference addressed the ‘big’ issues emerging in the world of work and a large number of conference streams were available including the public sector, health and social care; gender and work; diversity in employment; workplace flexibility and careers; the fourth industrial revolution; regulating work in transnational supply chains; segmentation, polarisation and skills; gender based violence; workplace rights, inclusivity and the effectiveness of regulation.

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Why is it important?

The conference included a special session for PhD scholars and the programme included, as it usually does, many contributions from PhD scholars and early career researchers. The sessions included a range of methodologies and approaches, representing the full range of industrial relations research including labour law, bargaining, trade unions, labour history, labour economics, and critical feminist research. The contributions ranged from the theoretical through to applied policy analysis and research methodology, and are selected here to reflect the range as well as the consistent quality of the contributions.

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