Lowell Turner, Professor and Chair of ILR's International & Comparative Labor department, recently presented at the plenary session of the European Congress: International Industrial Relations Association in Manchester, England.

The conference focused on the dynamics of European employment relations in relation to four specific themes:

• Restructuring work: new approaches to pay and working time
• Voice at work: new challenges, new forms
• Regulating employment: towards multi-level governance
• Public sector restructuring: between state and market

Lowell's presentation, Beyond the Workplace: The Politics of Labor and Society, focused on unions moving beyond the workplace into a broader engagement with society. Full text available here (pdf).