17th GLU Conference Call for Abstracts
Globally and nationally an unprecedented polycrisis threatens to overwhelm societies’ capacities to achieve sustainable and fair solutions. The rapid deterioration of the environment, increasing geopolitical tensions, the rise of popular authoritarianism, a potential global debt crisis, and a shift from corporate globalization towards economic nationalism require responses beyond the usual business of avoiding an immediate crisis by postponing it. Societies need to make fundamental choices.
The 17th GLU conference in 2026 aims to bring together scholars, labour leaders and activists, policymakers and practitioners from across the world to explore and discuss the potential and possibilities of the labour movement to shape these choices.
The conference call for abstracts is now open until 30 January 2026