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All Hands on Deck: A cross-disciplinary symposium

All Hands on Deck: A cross-disciplinary symposium

In July I spoke at the All Hands on Deck Symposium at UTS, organised by Jesse Adams-Stein and Chantel Carr. Recordings from a number of sessions are now available on the website and Soundcloud. Law, Labour and Climate- Dr Frances Flanagan: Just cessation:...

Technology and … cultural heritage

Technology and … cultural heritage

Photo by Steve Koukoulas In episode 2 of the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences workshop and podcast series 'Technology and ...' Daryna Zhyvohliadova and I explore technology's relationship to cultural heritage from two different perspectives. The episode starts...

Schmeitgeist: Landlord hate and Nepo Babies

Schmeitgeist: Landlord hate and Nepo Babies

In this episode of the podcast Schmeitgeist, I speak to Ange Lavoipierre about how young people have lost faith in capitalism. From the ABC websiteHating capitalism isn't just a left-wing project anymore. Even in 2018, 59 per cent of Australian Millennials believed...

Hot under the collar: climate change on the job

Hot under the collar: climate change on the job

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...

Labour, Value And Time: The Disabled Worker In The Academy

Labour, Value And Time: The Disabled Worker In The Academy

The following post was first published on the Progress in Political Economy blog, co-authored with Jess Rodgers Marta Russell (1951-2013), the US based writer, activist and leading critical thinker, argued that disability was not a medical condition or impairment, but...

2022 election: who is disliked the least?

2022 election: who is disliked the least?

As the pandemic eases, confidence in major parties and traditional politicians is returning to earlier trends of disaffection and distrust. By Simon Copland and Elizabeth Humphrys. Originally published in The Guardian on 4 May 2022. At the upcoming federal election,...

‘Zonked the hell out’

‘Zonked the hell out’

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...

Hot, hard and dangerous

Hot, hard and dangerous

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...