All news: International Labour Review
International Labour Review Blog
Legitimacy without members? Hungary's lessons on trade union representativeness
This blog, drawn from research published in the International Labour Review, explores how representativeness rules interact with declining union density in Hungary, offering lessons for labour law reform in low-unionisation environments.
International Labour Review Blog
Are green jobs better jobs? Lessons from the French labour market
This blog post, drawn from research published in the International Labour Review, explores the quality of green jobs in France, finding important variation across and within skill levels and occupational groups that has implications for labour and...
International Labour Review Blog
Automation, recessions, and jobs: What Okun’s Law tells us
Drawing on International Labour Review research, this blog reassesses how automation influences employment over the business cycle, with implications for debates on job losses, jobless recoveries and labour market policy.
International Labour Review Blog
Beyond employees and contractors: Mapping China’s platform-based gig workers
This blog, drawn from research published in the International Labour Review, explores how digital labour platforms in legal services reproduce long-standing gendered inequalities, despite appearing less hierarchical than traditional firms.
International Labour Review Blog
Legal services on platforms: How inequality is reproduced
This blog, drawn from research published in the International Labour Review, explores how digital labour platforms in legal services reproduce long-standing gendered inequalities, despite appearing less hierarchical than traditional firms.
International Labour Review Blog
Do Global Value Chains and new technologies improve job quality in Europe?
Drawing on micro-level data from 22 European countries, this blog from the International Labour Review examines how global value chains and digitalisation affect wages and job quality, highlighting their uneven impact across countries, occupations,...
International Labour Review Blog
Can local industrial relations improve working conditions in global supply chains?
Based on research recently published in the International Labour Review, this blog draws on data from the Better Work programme in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Haiti, Indonesia, Jordan, Nicaragua and Viet Nam to show how unions and collective bargaining...
International Labour Review Blog
Is technology fueling self-employment – or forcing it?
This ILR Blog explores how AI and automation are reshaping self-employment across Europe. It shows that while technology can create new opportunities for some, it also risks pushing others – especially low-paid workers – into precarious solo work.
International Labour Review Blog
Can sustainable work be decolonized? Lessons from mining-affected communities
Drawing on new insights from the International Labour Review’s Special Issue, this blog examines how alternative understandings of work in mining‐affected communities challenge mainstream sustainability paradigms and suggest fresh pathways to social...
International Labour Review Blog
What does sustainable work really mean? New perspectives from the International Labour Review
Drawing on the latest special issue of the International Labour Review, this blog explores why rethinking the role of work is key to advancing social justice, decent employment, and environmental sustainability in today’s changing world.
International Labour Review transitions to open access
The International Labour Review, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to open access with the Open Library of Humanities.