Pandemics, politics, and the resilience of employment relations research

The Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly altered people’s experiences of work around the world. In doing so, crisis appeared to change public narrative on and employment, consequently highlighted continued relevance value employment relations as a field study, in terms both policy research. this paper, we reflect implications outbreak for relations. We argue that current resilience relations, reminding us its critical academic interest (although how long is another matter). However, can only be understood context broader dynamics issues facing study. outline challenges faced by academics practitioners working area build upon new found attention ensure remain central research, teaching policy.