Politics of Equality at Work

Presentations and talks

Industrial Relations in a Changing World of Work (IREC) conference, Chambre des Salaries, Luxembourg. 17 September 2025

Presentation title: Silences and Closures in Workplace Equality: A Comparative Perspective on France, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.


Holly Smith,

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International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) conference, University of Durham, UK. 11 September 2025

Presentation title: On how traditions, cultural practices, and memories shape trade union responses to labour migration: the case of Spain.


Holly Smith,

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Work, Employment and Society conference, University of Manchester, UK. 9 September 2025

Presentation title: The silence around race in the discourse of equality and inclusion in the labour market.


Holly Smith,

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Regulating Decent Work conference, Geneva, Switzerland. 4 July 2025

Presentation title: Comparing Labour Relations and Equality Regimes: The Role of Context, Change, and Temporal Dynamics in the Politics of Equality at Work.


Holly Smith,

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Work and Equalities Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester – workshop, 28 March 2025

Workshop title: The silence around race in the discourse of equality and inclusion in the labour market.


Holly Smith,

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Work and Equalities Institute Fairness at Work conference, University of Manchester, 22 January 2025

Presentation title: The municipal lineages of equality: the new left as innovators of inclusion


Holly Smith,

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Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) conference, University of Limerick, 29 June 2024

Presentation title: The municipal lineages of equality: the new left as innovators of inclusion


Holly Smith,

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AISRI Early Career Conference, Dipartimento di Management-Venice School of Management Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia,13 June 2024

Presentation title: ‘The space between’? On the dialectical nature of collective representation in research on inclusion


Holly Smith,

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Industrial Relations in Europe (IREC) conference, Durham University Business School, 18 September 2023

Presentation title: The politics of equality at work - a bibliographic scoping exercise


Holly Smith,

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British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) conference, University of Bristol, 4 July 2023

Presentation title: The space between? Being sensitive to the dialectical nature of collective representation in research and writing about trade unions


Holly Smith,

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