The Economic and Labour Relations Review invites contributions for a Themed Collection, Indigeneity, Labour Relations and Work. 

The completed Themed Collection will be published in Volume 36/1 (March 2025) of The Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR), although individual articles may be published earlier as accepted in FirstView.

The Themed Collection aims to amplify Indigenous voices, knowledge, and perspectives. We encourage Indigenous researchers from across the world to consider contributing to this important collection.

Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2024. Successful authors will be notified shortly after this date.

Full paper submission deadline: COB 12 July 2024

Please do not hesitate to discuss your proposed articles with the Guest Editors.

Please see instructions for authors https://www.cambridge.org/core...

Guest Editors:

Sharlene Leroy-Dyer

s.leroydyer@uq.edu.au

Mark Jones

mark.jones@unimelb.edu.au

Diane Ruwhiu (TBC)

Context/Theoretical Framework

There has been a lack of Indigenous voices in academic literature on labour and workplace relations. The Themed Collection in ELRR will amplify Indigenous voices, knowledge, and perspectives, in labour relations and work.

Indicative topics that papers may address include: 

• Indigenous justice and human rights/labour standards;

• Indigenous participation in labour markets;

• Indigenous labour history;

• Indigenous stolen wages;

• The economic and employment risks and opportunities for Indigenous peoples;

• Indigenous employment equity (or lack of);

• Indigenous labour relations and public policy;

• Indigenous labour and unions;

• Indigenous labour supply;

• Protection of the working rights of Indigenous peoples;

• Colonial power and labour relations;

• Indigenous peoples and contemporary labour market;

• Indigenous labour market, discrimination, and exclusion;

• Settler colonialism and indigenous labour studies;

• Indigenous employment and business;

• Economic benefits of Indigenous labour;

• Indigenous employment policy and practice;

• Indigenous labour and disability;

• Reconciliation and Indigenous labour.