by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jun 8, 2023 | Australian Economy, Climate Change, Uncategorized, unions
The following post was first published on the Progress in Political Economy blog Exposure to high heat and humidity in the workplace is a critical health and safety issue, and in Australia, where heat waves are occurring with more frequency and intensity as a result...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Apr 21, 2022 | Australian Economy, Climate Change, unions
This week the first journal article based on my research with the United Workers Union, conducted with James Goodman and Freya Newman, was published in Economic and Labour Relations Review. The United Workers Union is one of the largest blue-collar...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Oct 18, 2021 | Australian Economy, Climate Change, unions
I was recently a guest on the On the Job podcast, hosted by Francis Leach and Sally Rugg, discussing a report I cowrote with Freya Newman for the United Workers Union . From the podcast show notes… As the COP26 climate change talks in Glasgow loom...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Sep 20, 2021 | Australian Economy, Climate Change, unions
In September, Freya Newman and I launched the final report on our project investigating the impact of high heat and climate change on members or the United Workers Union (UWU). The launch was part of the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ (ACTU) Climate Safety...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jan 11, 2021 | Anti-politics, Australian Economy
In the Summer 2020/2021 issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy, I published an article on anti-politics with Simon Copland and Luke Mansillo. We examine potential evidence for anti-politics in electoral fragmentation in Australia. We use the approach...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Aug 11, 2020 | Accord, Australian Economy, unions
The May issue of the journal Labour History carried a roundtable discussion of my book How Labour Built Neoliberalism. The special section ‘Assessing the Accord and Labour’s Role in Neoliberalism’ (paywalled) features contributions from Frank Bongiorno...