The Executive and Convenors of the 26th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference invite papers for the forthcoming Conference to be held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Surfers Paradise during 8-10 February 2012. 

SHORT EXTENSION FOR REFEREED PAPERS  

The call for papers has now closed.

CONFERENCE THEME: RE-ORGANISING WORK  

What do we mean when we say the theme is Re-Organising Work? Some aim to re-organise work by revising how they supervise work within the enterprise. Some even aim to individualise. Others see this as polarising and instead aim to collectivise, perhaps even to democratise. Some say work is being hybridised, even as the post-industrialised workforce is increasingly feminised it is marginalised, perhaps through being privatised, and so re-organised really means dis organised. For others the term means mobilised, sometimes as unions professionalise. They argue over whether to organise is to institutionalise or to humanise. Do our laws seek to compartmentalise, should they aim to harmonise? Our aim is not to agonise over the limits of the term re-organise, because we recognise that all around us work is being re-organised. And we realise that’s what you want to talk about.  

Papers are invited around these broad themes and associated debates. Of course, international perspectives are always welcome, as are more historical and comparative papers, be they country specific cross-temporal analysis or contemporary cross-national analysis (e.g. comparing Australia with New Zealand).

The conference organising committee reserves the right to allocate the length of time speakers have in which to deliver their papers. We will make a decision on durations only after all suitable papers have been accepted.

15 October 2011: Referees’ reports returned to authors

1 December 2011: Final deadline for re-submission of refereed papers, and for abstracts and non-refereed papers

Stream proposals are welcome. Stream organisers will simply need to publicise the conference (and the stream) amongst their networks to encourage the offer of papers. The conference committee will organise refereeing of papers, in conjunction with the stream chair.
Offered streams to date are:

The Globalization of Work and Labour
Bob Russell: bob.russell@griffith.edu.au

Work, Labour and Employment in South Asia  
Samanthi Gunawardana:s.gunawardana@griffith.edu.au
 
The Challenge of Climate Change for Work and Labour
Carla Lipsig-Mumme and Suzanne Young: carlalm@yorku.ca
 
Metaphor, Symbol and Legend in Industrial Relations
Maree Boyle and Amanda Roan: m.boyle@griffith.edu.au and a.roan@uq.edu.au
 
Governance and CSR: Implications for Labour
Suzanne Young: S.H.Young@latrobe.edu.au

Ageing and Work
Kate Shacklock: k.shacklock@griffith.edu.au

Creative Workers and Cultural Industries: Work and worker organisation
Scott Fitzgerald and Al Rainnie: scott.fitzgerald@gsb.curtin.edu.au 

Collaboration, Cooperation and Conflict in 21st Century Industrial Relations
Keith Townsend and John Burgess: k.townsend@griffith.edu.au

Labour History
Cathy Brigden and Lucy Taksa: lucy.taksa@mq.edu.au and cathy.brigden@rmit.edu.au

New Forms of Labour Organising: Exploring organisation and disorganisation
Rosaria Burchielli, Annie Delaney and Maree Keating: r.burchielli@latrobe.edu.au, 
annie.delaney@vu.edu.au and maree.keating@vu.edu.au

Re-Organising Our Work: Universities today
Glenda Strachan: g.strachan@griffith.edu.au 

Re-Organising the Community Sector: the impact on work, workers and unions
Kaye Broadbent, Sara Charlesworth, Al Rainnie: k.broadbent@griffith.edu.au, 
Sara.Charlesworth@unisa.edu.au and al.rainnie@gsb.curtin.edu.au

Restructuring in Health
Nigel Haworth, Jonathan Winterton, Francoise Le Deist: 
n.haworth@auckland.ac.nz, j.winterton@esc-toulouse.fr and f.ledeist@esc-toulouse.fr

Responses to Labour Migration
Donella Caspersz: donella.caspersz@uwa.edu.au   

Equality Bargaining in Australia
Sue Williamson, Marian Baird and Rae Cooper
S.Williamson@econ.usyd.edu.au 

In addition, we would encourage papers to be submitted on the following topics:

- Re-organising labour markets and state institutions 
- Re-organising ‘political labour’ in Australia and New Zealand 
- Divergence, continuity, patterns and trends in industrial relations 
- Diversity and equity 
- Fairness, rights, labour standards and worker entitlements 
- Inequality, discrimination and marginalised groups of workers 
- Interaction between the workplace, the family and the community 
- New models of work organisation and their implications 
- Relationships between labour markets, product markets and capital markets 
- Social policy, industrial relations and paid work 
- The evolving role of unions, collective representation and good faith bargaining

Publication
Refereed papers will be published in the edited conference proceedings, available electronically, which it is expected will be issued with an ISBN.
 
‘Opting Out’
Paper authors can choose to ‘opt out’ of having their full paper published in the conference proceedings. If you select this option, only the abstract of your successful submission will be included in the proceedings. Paper submission and refereeing/revision processes will remain unchanged. Please advise at the time of submission if you wish to ‘opt out’ of publication.
 
Refereeing
All papers submitted will be subject to editorial consideration by the Convenors and organising committee to ensure that they meet the appropriate standards (e.g. DEWR) of an international academic conference of significance.
 
Each paper will be ‘blind’ refereed by two referees, drawn from the Convenors, the AIRAANZ Executive and others selected by the conference organising committee. The authors of submitted papers may be asked to act as referees.