Call for papers for a special issue of the EJIR: Industrial relations in the automotive sector and the twin transition

Bembič B (2025) Chinese investment in Central and Eastern Europe: studying the evolution of industrial relations after the takeover of a Slovenian company. European Journal of Industrial Relations 31(2): 09596801241284897.

Boewe J Schulten J (2023) The Transformation of the Global Automotive Industry. Trends, Interpretations, Socio-Ecological Strategies for Action: A Handbook for Trade Union and Political Practice. Vernier: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Geneva Office.

Bosch G (2023) Employment policy for a just transition–the example of Germany. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 29(3): 405–421.

Bosch G Schmitz-Kießler J (2020) Shaping Industry 4.0 – an experimental approach developed by German trade unions. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 26(2): 189–206.

Briken K Chillas S Krzywdzinski M , et al. (2017) The New Digital Workplace: How New Technologies Revolutionise Work. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Cetrulo A Nuvolari A (2019) Industry 4.0: revolution or hype? Reassessing recent technological trends and their impact on labour. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics 46: 391–402.

Cirillo V Rinaldini M Staccioli J , et al. (2021) Technology vs. workers: the case of Italy’s Industry 4.0 factories. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 56: 166–183.

Cirillo V Rinaldini M Staccioli J , et al. (2023) Trade unions’ responses to Industry 4.0 amid corporatism and resistance. PSL Quarterly Review 76(305): 91–120.

Clarke L Lipsig-Mummé C (2020) Future conditional: from just transition to radical transformation? European Journal of Industrial Relations 26(4): 351–366.

De Stefano V Doellgast V (2023) Introduction to the Transfer special issue. Regulating AI at work: labour relations, automation, and algorithmic management. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 29(1): 9–20.

Dupuis M (2024) Algorithmic management and control at work in a manufacturing sector: workplace regime, union power and shopfloor conflict over digitalisation. New Technology, Work and Employment 40: 81–101.

Dupuis M Greer I Kirsch A , et al. (2024) A just transition for auto workers? Negotiating the electric vehicle transition in Germany and North America. ILR Review 77(5): 770–798.

Flanagan F Goods C (2022) Climate change and industrial relations: reflections on an emerging field. Journal of Industrial Relations 64(4): 479–498.

Galgóczi B (2020) Just transition on the ground: challenges and opportunities for social dialogue. European Journal of Industrial Relations 26(4): 367–382.

Hancké B Mathei L (2024) Varieties of just transitions in the European car industry. Contemporary Social Science 19(1-3): 135–153.

Jürgens U Krzywdzinski M (2009) Changing East–West division of labour in the European automotive industry. European Urban and Regional Studies 16(1): 27–42.

Jürgens U Krzywdzinski M (2016) New Worlds of Work: Varieties of Work in Car Factories in the BRIC Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Krzywdzinski M Gerst D Butollo F (2023) Promoting human-centred AI in the workplace. Trade unions and their strategies for regulating the use of AI in Germany. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 29(1): 53–70.

Lloyd C Payne J (2025) Digitalisation, unions and ‘country-effect’: does union strength at the workplace matter? Journal of Industrial Relations.

Meardi G (2024) Capitalist crises and industrial relations theorizing. In Hodder A Mustchin S (eds). In: The Value of Industrial Relations. Bristol: Bristol University Press. pp 26-36.

Moro A Virgillito ME (2022) Towards Factory 4.0? Convergence and divergence of lean models in Italian automotive plants. International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management 22(2): 245–271.

Muench S Stoermer E Jensen K , et al. (2022) Towards a Green & Digital Future. Luxemburg: Publications Office of the European Union, European Commission: Joint Research Centre.

Pardi T (2019) Fourth industrial revolution concepts in the automotive sector: performativity, work and employment. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics 46: 379–389.

Pardi T (2022) Heavier, faster and less affordable cars: the consequence of EU regulations for car emissions. ETUI Research Paper-Report. Brussels: ETUI, 7.

Pavlínek P (2020) Restructuring and internationalization of the European automotive industry. Journal of Economic Geography 20(2): 509–541.

Pulignano V Hauptmeier M Frans D (2023) Determinants of union strategies towards the twin digital and green transitions in the German and Belgian automotive industry. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 29(1): 121–138.

Schmalz S Schneidemesser L Xu H (2025) An emerging ‘China-threat-corporatism’? CRRC’s acquisition of a German locomotive company and its impact on labour relations. European Journal of Industrial Relations 31(2): 09596801231226421.

Schröder M Mokudai T Holst H (2024) Industry 4.0 and lean augmentation? Digital transformation in the German and Japanese automotive industry. International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management 24(6): 1–27.

Stroud D Evans C Weinel M (2020) Innovating for energy efficiency: digital gamification in the European steel industry. European Journal of Industrial Relations 26(4): 419–437.

Szabó J Newell P (2024) Driving towards a just transition? The case of the European car industry. Energy Research & Social Science 115: 103649.

Thomas A Doerflinger N (2020) Trade union strategies on climate change mitigation: between opposition, hedging and support. European Journal of Industrial Relations 26(4): 383–399.

Trif A Bernaciak M Kahancová M (2023) Trade union revitalization in hard times: a mission impossible? European Journal of Industrial Relations 29(1): 3–6.

Vidal M (2022) Management Divided. Contradictions of Labor Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Zheng Y Smith C (2025) Mobility power and society: managing migrant workers among Chinese multinational companies in Europe. European Journal of Industrial Relations 31(2): 09596801241304089.