ELRR are delighted to announce the award of the Nevile/Plowman Prize for the best article published in the journal in 2020. Recipients were:
Wright, Chris F and Stephen Clibborn, S. for their article ‘A guest-worker state? The declining power and agency of migrant labour in Australia’ (link to: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1035304619897670 The Economic and Labour Relations Review 31(1): 34–58.
Background
In 2019 the Editorial Board of Economic and Labour Relations Review approved the establishment of a cash prize, the Nevile-Plowman Prize, for the best article published in a volume of ELRR or in OnlineFirst in any one year, beginning in 2020.
The Prize was named after the journal’s founding editors, Professor John Nevile (please link to https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/elra/24/2) and Professor David Plowman (please link to https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1035304614523883), deeply respected scholars in economics and industrial relations respectively. Professor Plowman died in 2013, and today Professor Nevile is the ELRR Patron.
In early 2021, nominations were called, together with reasons for recommendations. Seven nominated papers comprised the shortlist for the 2020 Prize:
While all the nominated papers were judged to be of exceptionally high quality, the winning article was ultimately selected as Chris F Wright and Stephen Clibborn’s ‘A guest-worker state? The declining power and agency of migrant labour in Australia’.