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  • A future for IR academics? 2018 AIRAANZ presidential address

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    Townsend, Keith
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    Townsend, Keith J.
    Year published
    2019
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    I began my career as an academic around 15 years ago, and the day-to-day working experience then was (according to my older colleagues and mentors) very different from the work people did 15 years prior to that, and the next 15 years will be very different again. As industrial relations, scholars we are not unfamiliar with uncertainty – and what lies ahead is a great deal of uncertainty. Reading the future though, is fraught with danger. Plenty of people predicted the age of leisure that we would all be living by the 1990s, sadly that has not eventuated. The paperless office may seem a step closer depending on your organisation, ...
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    I began my career as an academic around 15 years ago, and the day-to-day working experience then was (according to my older colleagues and mentors) very different from the work people did 15 years prior to that, and the next 15 years will be very different again. As industrial relations, scholars we are not unfamiliar with uncertainty – and what lies ahead is a great deal of uncertainty. Reading the future though, is fraught with danger. Plenty of people predicted the age of leisure that we would all be living by the 1990s, sadly that has not eventuated. The paperless office may seem a step closer depending on your organisation, but still seems out of reach. There are countless other failed attempts to predict our future, so it is with some trepidation that I embark upon this discussion of the future of industrial relations research and teaching when we add the variable of artificial intelligence (AI) in to the model. The only certainty is that these are uncertain times.
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    Journal Title
    Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work
    Volume
    29
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2018.1510301
    Copyright Statement
    © 2019 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Labour & Industry on 06 Feb 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2018.1510301
    Subject
    Business and Management
    Human Geography
    Policy and Administration
    Social Sciences
    Industrial Relations & Labor
    Business & Economics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/386778
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