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This volume focuses on the intersections between institutions and actors in shaping innovative workplace conflict management practices, featuring scholarship centered on various countries, including Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Ireland, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The intention of the volume is to synthesize a global body of research into conflict management undertaken by labor and employment relations scholars and also to assess the current state of employment relations research in this area. In doing so, the volume seeks to provide a road map for where research in this area has been and where it should now be headed.Contributors: Ariel Avgar (Cornell University); Greg J. Bamber (Monash University); Martin Behrens (WSI/Hans Böckler Foundation); Yashika Chandhok (Auckland University of Technology); Denise Currie (Queen's University Belfast); Bernadine Van Gramberg (Swinburne University of Technology); Gaye Greenwood (New Zealand Dispute Resolution Centre); Deborah Hann (Cardiff University); Ryan Lamare (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Paul Latreille (University of Sheffield); Fatima Maatwk (University of Westminster); David Nash (Cardiff University); Rita Neves (University of Sheffield); Katrina Nobles (Cornell University); Erling Rasmussen (Auckland University of Technology); William Roche (University College Dublin); Richard Saundry (University of Westminster); Paul Teague (Queen's University Belfast); Julian Teicher (Central Queensland University); Peter Urwin (University of Westminster)

Traditional industrial relations theories of organizing, employment relations, and economic democracy are cloaked in the language of color-blindness, with conceptualizations of justice and class identity viewed through the lens of dominant social identity groups. This has led to theoretical distortions and incomplete notions of worker justice--consistent with systemic biases that reinforce and perpetuate discrimination.This research volume takes a different approach. Through the counternarratives of our contributors--artists, activists, union organizers, and scholars with academic and lived expertise within the world of work--we bring forth a racial reckoning in industrial relations theory and praxis. Specifically, the collection of voices presented here embrace the traditions and tenets of critical race theory and intersectionality (CRT/I) to acknowledge and deconstruct the false realities that thrive in traditional identity-neutral approaches to understanding industrial relations systems and the greater social systems that govern the relationships between actors.Consisting of traditional chapters, commentary pieces, dialogues between practitioners and scholar-activists, and art and graphic illustrations, this volume challenges the traditional hierarchies of knowledge production in academia. It uplifts the diversity of voices and possibilities for storytelling and issues concrete calls to action to the industrial relations academic and movement power brokers (gatekeepers). At a time of historic racial uprising, innovative labor contestations, and global crises amplified by structural oppressions, it offers a path forward with crucial implications for the future of work and worker mobilization.Contributors: Vicko Alverez, independent author; Valery Alzaga, Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum; Nicole Burrowes, Rutgers University, Department of History; J. Mijin Cha, Cornell University, Occidental College/Worker Institute; Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Rutgers University, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO) and Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations; Harmony Goldberg, Grassroots Policy ProjectHaven Media, Inc.; Tamara L. Lee, Rutgers University, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations; Austin McCoy, Auburn University, Department of History; Javier Morillo, Rutgers University, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO) Fellow; Kasi Perreira, Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO; Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham, Texas Woman's University, Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies; Sanjay Pinto, Cornell University, The Worker Institute; Salil Sapre, Michigan State University, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations; Erica Smiley, Jobs With JusticeMaite Tapia, Michigan State University, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, WILL Empower; Naomi R Williams, Rutgers University, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations; Larry Williams, Jr., UnionBase.org

How can we build a future of work that meets pressing challenges and delivers for workers? Contemporary societies are beset by interrelated ecological, political, and economic crises, from climate change to democratic erosion and economic instability. Uncertainty abounds about the sustainability of democratic capitalism. Yet mainstream debates on the evolution of work tend to remain narrowly circumscribed, exhibiting both technological and market determinism.This volume presents a labor studies perspective on the future of work, arguing that revaluing work--the efforts and contributions of workers--is crucial to realizing the promises of democracy and improving sustainability. It emphasizes that collective political action, and the collective agency of workers in particular, is central to driving this agenda forward. Moreover, it maintains that reproductive work--labor efforts from care to education that sustain the reproduction of society--can function as a crucible of innovation for the valuation and governance of work more broadly.Contributors: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; J. Mijin Cha, Occidental College; Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University; Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Rutgers University; Victor G. Devinatz, Illinois State University; Alysa Hannon, Rutgers University; William A. Herbert, Hunter College; David C. Jacobs, American University; John McCarthy, Cornell University; Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University; Heather A. McKay, Rutgers University; Michael Merrill, Hudson County Central Labor Council; Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers University; Saul A. Rubinstein, Rutgers University; Erica Smiley, Jobs With Justice; Marilyn Sneiderman, Rutgers University; Joseph van der Naald, City University of New York; Michell Van Noy, Rutgers University; Naomi R Williams, Rutgers University; Joel S. Yudken, High Road Strategies LLC; Elaine Zundl, Harvard Kennedy School