BJIR

Published in conjunction with the London School of Economics & Political Science

Edited by:
Carola Frege

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 2/15 (Industrial Relations & Labor)
Impact Factor: 1.295

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BJIR (British Journal of Industrial Relations) is an influential and authoritative journal which is essential reading for all academics and practitioners interested in work and employment relations. It is the highest ranked European journal in the Industrial Relations & Labour category of the Social Sciences Citation Index.

TopNews and Announcements

Call for Papers
BJIR International Symposium on the Government Regulation of Occupations
Submission deadline: 27th October 2008

BJIR Best Paper Award 2007
The winner of our first best paper award is Peter Ackers "Collective Bargaining as Industrial Democracy: Hugh Clegg and the Political Foundations of British Industrial Relations Pluralism", BJIR, 2007, Vol 45(1), 77-101.

Ackers' paper provides a highly sophisticated, well-balanced intellectual biography of Hugh Clegg and his wide-ranging influence on employment research in Britain. The strength of the paper is in trying to look at the intellectual origins of some key normative and political ideas that underwrite the British approach to industrial relations issues, in particular the emphasis on collective bargaining and union independence and ambivalence toward worker participation.

BJIR is ranked "A*" in the Business and Management category of the Australia Business Deans Council journal rankings

Latest Special Issue
45:2 Political Economy of Migration

Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our OnlineEarly feature before the print edition of this journal is published. Browse BJIR OnlineEarly articles.

TopHighlights

Featured free articles
BJIR Best Paper Award 2007: Collective Bargaining as Industrial Democracy: Hugh Clegg and the Political Foundations of British Industrial Relations Pluralism
Peter Ackers

We Provoked Business Students to Unionize: Using Deception to Prove an IR Point 
Daphne Taras and Piers Steel

Highly accessed papers
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Highly cited papers
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Special and Symposium issues
2007
Political Economy of Migration

2006
Special Edition on New Actors in Industrial Relations
Edited by Edmund Heery , Carola Frege

2005
Symposium on The Embedded Corporation by Sanford Jacoby
Edited by Carola Frege and John Logan

Symposium on the Quality of Work Life

2004
Special Edition on Changing Contours of Employment and New Modes of Labour Regulation
Edited by Linda Dickens and Edmund Heery

2003
Special Edition on Politics and Employment Relations
Edited by Steve Ludlam, Stephen Wood, Edmund Heery, Andrew Taylor
 
Special Edition on the ESRC Future of Work Programme
Edited by Peter Nolan, Stephen Wood

TopEndorsements

"The BJIR is one of the world's preemminent journals in employment relations. It has long been at the leading edge of research in this field, generating new ideas and attracting contributions from leading international scholars. It is an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners and policy makers who wish to understand current and emerging issues in the world of work and employment relations."
Russell Lansbury, University of Sydney and President, International Industrial Relations Association

"Embracing a wide definition of its field and applying consistently rigorous acceptance criteria, the BJIR remains a 'must see' journal for employment relations academics and students."
Professor Linda Dickens, Warwick Business School