Publications
Books
Humphrys E (2019) How Labour Made Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project, Brill: Leiden (hardcover)/Haymarket: Chicago (paperback).
Humphrys E, Rundle G and Tietze T (Eds) (2011) On Utoya: Anders Breivik, Right Terror, Racism and Europe, Elguta Press: London. Now Open Access.
Journal Articles
Goodman J, Humphrys E, & Newman F (2023) ‘Working in Heat: Contrasting Heat Management Approaches Among Outdoor Employees and Contractors’, Safety Science, 165, online first.
Rodgers J, Thorneycroft R, Cook PS, Humphrys E, Asquith N, Yaghi SA and Foulstone A (2023) ‘Ableism in Higher Education: The Negation of Crip Temporalities Within the Neoliberal Academy’, Higher Education Research and Development, 42(6), 1482-1495.
Humphrys E, Goodman J and Newman F (2022) ‘Zonked the Hell Out’: Climate Change and Heat Stress at Work, Economic and Labour Relations Review, 33(2) 256–271. Shortlisted for the ELRR Nevile-Plowman Prize best article prize.
Humphrys, E., Rodgers, J., Asquith, N. L., Yaghi, S. A., Foulstone, A., Thorneycroft, R., & Cook, P. S. (2022). ‘To prove I’m not incapable, I overcompensate’: Disability, ideal workers, the academy’. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 33(4), 698–714.
Humphrys E, Copland S & Mansillo L (2021) ‘Anti-politics in Australia: Hypotheses, Evidence and Trends’, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Issue 86.
Gregson S & Humphrys E (2020) ‘Philanthropy and the ‘Management’ of Working-class Women: The West Gate Bridge Disaster’, Labour History, Vol 118, Issue 2.
Newman F & Humphrys E (2020) ‘Construction Workers in a Climate Precarious World’, Critical Sociology, Vol 46, Issue 4-5, pp 557-572. Short Listed for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize.
Cahill, D & Humphrys E (2019) ‘Rethinking the “Neoliberal Thought Collective” Thesis’, Globalizations, Vol 16, No 6, pp 948-965.
Humphrys E (2018) ‘Simultaneously Deepening Corporatism and Advancing Neoliberalism: Australia Under the Accord’, Journal of Sociology, Vol 54, pp 49-63.
Humphrys E (2018) ‘Anti-politics, the Early Marx and Gramsci’s Integral State’’, Thesis Eleven, Vol 147, pp 29-44. Short Listed for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize.
Barnes T, Humphrys E and Pusey M (2018) ‘From Economic Rationalism to Global Neoliberalism: Marking 25 years since Economic Rationalism in Canberra’, Journal of Sociology, Vol 54, No 1, pp. 49-63.
Humphrys E & Cahill, D (2017) ‘How Labour Built Neoliberalism’, in Critical Sociology, Volume 43, Issue 4-5, pp 669-684.
Humphrys E (2013) ‘Global Justice Organising in Australia: Crisis and Realignment after 9/11’, in Globalizations, Vol 10, No 3, pp. 451-464.
Humphrys E (2012) ‘The Birth of Australia: Non-Capitalist Social Relations in a Capitalist Mode of Production’, in Journal of Australian Political Economy, Vol 70, pp. 110-129.
Humphrys E (2009) ‘Thinking and Theorising About Activism: Who and How’ in Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 1, No 2, pp. 166-179.
Book Chapters
Humphrys E (2024) ‘Neoliberalism: Different Paths Within a Global Process’, in Emil Dauncey, Vandana Desai and Robert B Potter (eds), Companion to Development Studies (4th Edition), Routledge.
Humphrys E (2024) ‘Hegemony as a Protean Concept’, in William Carroll (ed), The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Gregson S & Humphrys E (2021) ‘The West Gate Collapse: How Disaster Happens’, in Peter Sheldon, Sarah Gregson, Russell Lansbury & Karin Sanders (eds), The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety: Historical and Emerging Trends, Routledge: London.
Humphrys E (2019) ‘Halcyon Days?: The Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union and the Accord’, in Evan Smith, Jon Piccini and Matthew Worley (eds), The Far Left in Australia Since 1945, Routledge: London, pp 231-248.
Humphrys E (2014) ‘The Primacy of Politics: Stilwell, the Accord and the Critique of the State’, in Susan Schroeder and Lynne Chester (eds), Challenging the Orthodoxy, Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 173-180
Humphrys E (2013) ‘Organic Intellectuals and the Australian Global Justice Movement: The Weight of 9/11’, in Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, John Krinsky and Alf Nielsen (eds), Marxism and Social Movements, Brill: Leiden, pp. 357-375.
Humphrys E and Tietze T (2012) ‘The Science Cannot Save Us’, in Jeff Sparrow and Antony Loewenstein (eds), Left Turn, Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, pp. 10-26.
Humphrys E (2011) ‘“Your ‘Terrorists”, Our “Lone Wolves”: Utøya in the Shadow of 9/11‘, in Elizabeth Humphrys, Guy Rundle and Tad Tietze (eds), On Utøya: Anders Breivik, Right Terror, Racism and Europe, Elguta Press: London.
Edited Journal Special Issues
Humphrys E and Shalbak I (2018) Thesis Eleven, Vol 147. Special issue ‘On Heroic Fury’ and Questions of Method in Antonio Gramsci, University of Sydney.
Barnes T, Humphrys E and Pusey M (2018) Journal of Sociology, Vol 54, No 1. Special issue From Economic Rationalism to Global Neoliberalism: Marking 25 years since Economic Rationalism in Canberra.
Humphrys E and Collerson J (2012) Journal of Australian Political Economy, Vol 70. Special issue Rereading Capital, Again: New Research in Marxist Political Economy.
Waterman P, Ma A, Humphrys E, Cox, L and Esteves A (2012) Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements, Vol 4, No 2. Special issue For the Global Emancipation of Labour: New Movements and Struggles around Work, Workers and Precarity.
Nilsen A, Berdnikovs A and Humphrys E (2010) Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements, Vol 2, No 1. Special issues Crises, Social Movements and Revolutionary Transformations.
Formaini H, Goodman J, Ho C and Humphrys E (2009) Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 1, No 2. Special issue Beyond the Neo-Con Men – A Series of Dialogues: Organisation, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, Rights Framing, Visions for Social and Political Change.
Other Journal Contributions
Humphrys E (2020) Review: Being Left Wing in Australia: Identity, Culture and Politics after Socialism (by Geoff Robinson), Arena Journal
Humphrys E and Shalbak I (2018) ‘‘‘On Heroic Fury’ and Questions of Method in Antonio Gramsci’, in Thesis Eleven, Vol 147.
Tietze T & Humphrys E (2015) ‘Anti-Politics and the Illusions of Neoliberalism’, Oxford Left Review, Vol 14.
Humphrys E (2013) Review: Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia, 1900 to the Present (by Neville Kirk), Reviews in Australian Studies, Vol 7, No 4.
Humphrys E (2013) ‘Within or Against the State’, Jacobin Magazine, Roundtable with Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, 7 August, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/07/within-or-against-the-state/
Humphrys E (2012) ‘Your ‘Terrorists’, Our ‘Lone Wolves’: Utøya in the shadow of 9/11’, in Journal of International Relations Research, Vol 1, pp. 72-80.
Humphrys E (2012) ‘From Global Justice to Occupy Everywhere’, Overland Journal, Special Supplement, January 2012.
Reports and Submissions
Humphrys E and Newman F (Oct 2021) High Heat and Climate Change at Work: Report for the United Workers Union, Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney.
Humphrys E, Newman F and Goodman J (2020) Heat Stress and Work in the Era of Climate Change: What We Know, and What We Need to Learn, Centre for Future Work and Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney. https://www.futurework.org.au/climate_change_producing_dangerous_heat_stress_in_workplaces
Bilora N, Goodman J, Humphrys E, Newman F, Pakdel P, da Rimini F and Thomas L (2019) Final Report to the City of Sydney Council: Heat in the Streets: Mapping the Lived Experience of Heat Stress of Climate-exposed Workers Towards Developing a Thriving and Resilient City, Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney. https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/138619
Goodman J, Humphrys E, Newman F, da Rimini F, Thomas L, Biloria NM & Pakdel P (2019) UTS Climate Justice Centre, Heat Stress and On-Demand Work: The Experience of Food Delivery and Courier Cyclists, pp. 1-5, Submission to the Inquiry into the Victorian On-Demand Workforce http://hdl.handle.net/10453/134736
Selected News and Opinion Articles
Humphrys E, Newman F & Heenan T (2019) ‘Workers are on the Frontline of the Climate Crisis, but they have the Power to Fight Back’, ABC News, 19 December, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-19/unions-need-to-be-part-of-solution-climate-change-sydney-smoke/11802438.
Humphrys E (2019) ‘We Live in anti-political Times’, Overland Journal, 20 May, https://overland.org.au/2019/05/we-live-in-anti-political-times/.
Humphrys E & Heggart K (2018) ‘Playdough Capitalism’, Futures: The UTS Learning and Teaching Blog and Progress in Political Economy, 11 January, http://ppesydney.net/playdough-capitalism/.
Humphrys E & Heggart K (2017) ‘Take a Walk Around Your Neighbourhood’, Futures: The UTS Learning and Teaching Blog, 30 August, https://futures.uts.edu.au/blog/2017/08/30/walk-around-your-neighbourhood/.
Humphrys E (2017) ‘Wen You Laugh Togetha’, Overland Journal, 22 March, https://overland.org.au/2017/03/wen-you-laugh-togetha/.
Humphrys E & Tietze T (2016) ‘Balancing Act: Correspondence’ (reply to George Megalogenis), Quarterly Essay, Issue 62.
Humphrys E (2016) ‘Is the Term Neoliberalism Useful?’, Progress in Political Economy, 29 September, http://ppesydney.net/term-neoliberalism-useful/.
Humphrys E (2015) ‘Why Didn’t Neoliberalism Start During the Fraser Liberal Government?’, Progress in Political Economy, 11 November http://ppesydney.net/why-didnt-neoliberalism-start-during-the-fraser-liberal-government/.
Humphrys E (2014) ‘Where in the World Does Neoliberalism Come From?’, Progress in Political Economy, 29 August, http://ppesydney.net/where-in-the-world-does-neoliberalism-come-from/.
Humphrys E & Tietze T (2014) ‘Qantas and job losses: the reality of union decline must be faced’, The Guardian, 5 March, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/05/how-relevant-are-australian-unions.
Humphrys E (2013) ‘How to Complain and be Heard’, The Thesis Whisperer, 6 February, http://thesiswhisperer.com/2013/02/06/how-to-complain-and-be-heard/.
Humphrys E & Tietze T (2011) ‘The Carbon Price Debate as Smokescreen for Inaction’, ABC The Drum Opinion, 9 June, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-06-09/tietze-and-humphreys—the-carbon-price-debate-as-smokescreen-f/2751414.
Selected Conference Papers
Gregson S & Humphrys E (2020) ‘Memorialising Workers: The West Gate Bridge Collapse‘, The Association of Industrial Relations Academics in Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Queenstown, NZ, 11-14 February.
Newman F & Humphrys E (2020) ‘Construction Workers in a Climate Precarious World‘, Australian International Political Economy Network Conference, University of Sydney, 6-7 February.
Gregson S & Humphrys E (2019) ‘The West Gate Bridge Collapse: Lessons for Workplace Safety‘, National Health and Safety Conference, Safety Institute of Australia, International Convention Centre Sydney, 22-23 May.
Gregson S & Humphrys E (2018) ‘The West Gate Project: History Memory Action‘, How to Build Bridges Symposium, Art & Industry Festival, The Substation, Newport Melbourne, 23 November.
da Rimini F, Goodman J, Humphrys E & Thomas L (2018) ‘Towards a ‘Worker/Citizen Science’ Model: A Qualitative Investigation of Workplace Heat Stress and Climate Change‘, Australian Citizen Science Conference, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 7–9 February
Humphrys E and Mansillo L (2017) ‘Anti-politics in Australia‘, Political Studies Association UK (PSA) Annual Conference, University of Glasgow,10–12 April.
Ghosh D, Goodman J and Humphrys E (2017) ‘Addressing Heat Disease: Trade Unions and Climate Heat in the Workplace’, 29th Annual Scientific Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, University of Sydney, 24-28 September.
Humphrys E (2016) ‘Australia Under the Accord: Simultaneously Deepening Corporatism and Advancing Neoliberalism’, The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Annual Conference, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne), 28 November-1 December.
Humphrys E (2016) ‘Destabilising Neoliberalism’s Dominant Narrative’, Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Annual Conference, University of New South Wales, 26-28 September.
Humphrys E (2016) ‘How Labour Made Neoliberalism’, The Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, March 29-April 2.
Humphrys E (2015) ‘Anti-politics: The Antagonism Between Social and Political Logics’, Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Annual Conference, University of Canberra, 28-30 September.
Humphrys E (2015) ‘Gramsci’s ‘Integral State’: Securing Neoliberalism in Australia‘, On ‘Heroic Fury’ and Questions of Method in Antonio Gramsci, University of Sydney, 29 May.
Humphrys E (2015) ‘The Accord after Thirty Years: Corporatism in the Neoliberal Era’, 14th Biennial Australian Labour History Conference, University of Melbourne, 11-13 February.
Humphrys E (2014) ‘“Abolishing the Present State of Things”: Reconstructing Marx’s Critique of Politics and the State’, Eleventh Annual Historical Materialism Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London UK, 6-9 November.
Humphrys E & Cahill D (2014) ‘Labour and the Neoliberal Revolution’, Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Annual Conference, University of Sydney, 28 September-1 October.
Humphrys E (2014) ‘For a New State Debate’, Third Annual Australasian Historical Materialism Conference, Sydney Mechanics’ Institute of the Arts, Sydney, 20-21 July.
Humphrys E (2013) ‘Labour and Neoliberalism’, WZB Social Science Research Centre Berlin, December 3.
Humphrys E (2013) ‘How Labour Built Neoliberalism’, Tenth Annual Historical Materialism Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London UK, 7-10 November.
Humphrys E (2013) ‘Anti-systemic Organising in Australia after 9/11’, Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) Seminar Series, University of Nottingham, October 21.
Humphrys E (2013) ‘The Lucky Country? The Impact of Global Protests in Australia’, Reclaiming Democracy and Social Justice: From the Arab Spring to Occupy to…, University of Windsor, Canada, 17-18 May.
Humphrys E (2012) ‘“To be Young Again”: Social Movements in the Age of the Arab Revolutions, Occupy and the Indignados’, First Annual Australasian Historical Materialism Conference, Sydney Mechanics’ Institute of the Arts, Sydney, 20-21 July.
Humphrys E (2011) ‘Understood in their “Originality and Uniqueness”: Locating Gramsci’s Organic Intellectuals in the Global Justice Movement’, Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London UK, 10-13 November.
Humphrys E (2011) ‘Rethinking Gramsci’s Organic Intellectuals’, Sixteenth Annual Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK, 18-20 April.
Humphrys E (2010) ‘The Naughties: The Rise and Fall of the Global Justice Movement in Australia’, Empire to Commonwealth: Communist Theory and Contemporary Praxis, University of Wollongong, 25-26 November.
Humphrys E (2009) ‘The Weight of the Event: The Crisis of the Global Justice Movement in Australia after 9/11’, Crisis? Networks, Resilience, Disorder, University of Technology Sydney, 7 December.
Humphrys E (2008) ‘Movement Relevant Research: Can a Different Approach be Taken’, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Technology Sydney, 30 May.
Humphrys E (2007) ‘From Offence to Defence: The Alter-Globalisation Movement in Australia’, Twelfth Annual Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK, 2-4 April.
Humphrys E (2007, refereed) ‘“With Their Bodies on the Line”: Activist Space and Sexuality in the Australian Alter-Globalisation Movement’, QUEER Space: Centres and Peripheries, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, 20-21 February, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/research/handle/10453/7447.
Humphrys E (2006) ‘GLAM, QUEER and QuACE: Sexuality Meets Anti-Capitalism on the Streets of Melbourne’, Eleventh Annual Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK, 19-21 April.