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Cultivating dispersed collectivity: How communities between organizations sustain employee activism

Anna Stöber and Verena Girschik

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Conversation

Read our conversation with the authors of the recently published paper: ‘Fifty years of fighting sex discrimination: Undermining entrenched misogynies through recognition and everyday resistance and find out more about how the paper developed.

Calls for Papers and Proposals

Annual Call for Special Issue Proposals opens on 1st September and runs to 31st December 2026.

Call for Papers for Special Issue: Polarization and the Changing World of Organizations – New Challenges and Perspectives opens on 1st May 2027 and runs to 31st May 2027.

 

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Join us on 1st September, at Durham University. This workshop is an opportunity for mature PhD students and Early Career Researchers to submit work in progress and receive feedback from Editors and Associate Editors of Human Relations.

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Join us on 16th September, at RMIT University. An opportunity to submit work in progress and receive developmental feedback from Associate Editors of Human Relations.

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Reviewer of the Year 2025

The Human Relations Editors-in-Chief have awarded Reviewer of the Year status to Dr TingTing Chen of Lingnang University, Hong Kong, China.

Paper of the Year 2025

Our Paper of the Year 2025 has been awarded to Roya Derakhshan, Vivek Soundararajan, Pankhuri Agarwal & Andrew Crane for their paper Coping with personhood limbo: Personhood anchoring work among undocumented workers in Italy.