The Economic & Labour Relations Review is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal that aims to bring together research in economics and labour relations in a multi-disciplinary approach to policy questions. The journal encourages articles that critically assess dominant orthodoxies, as well as alternative models, thereby facilitating informed debate. The journal particularly encourages articles that adopt a post-Keynesian (heterodox) approach to economics, or that explore rights-, equality- or justice-based approaches to economic or social policy, employment relations or labour studies.
As of 2026, all articles are published on an open access basis.

May Article of the Month

Our ELRR article of the month for May shines a timely spotlight on the legacy of Hyman Minsky. In this compelling analysis, Savvas Zachariadis revisits Minsky’s central insight that capitalist economies are inherently prone to cycles of boom, debt accumulation, and crisis, and explores why such a prescient framework was largely ignored until the shock of the 2008 global financial crisis. The article critically examines how the dominance of mathematically driven, equilibrium-focused models sidelined Minsky’s historically grounded and institutionally rich approach. By unpacking the intellectual, methodological, and political factors behind this neglect, Zachariadis argues for a renewed engagement with Minsky’s ideas particularly as contemporary economies grapple with instability, inequality, and financial risk. As the limits of conventional theory become increasingly apparent, this piece positions Minsky’s work as not only relevant, but essential reading for understanding today’s economic landscape.

Manhood, Money and Survival: Rethinking Child Soldiers in Somalia
08 April 2026, Dr Francesca Baldwin
Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…...

Common Ways to See Differently: Race, Mestizaje, and Criollismo as Seen by Blind People in Chile and Venezuela
03 February 2026, Luis Angosto-Ferrández
The “visual idea of race” is one of those widespread misconceptions that naturalise biologistic notions of race. Such idea is premised on the assumption that...