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Work History and the Collapse of the West Gate Bridge
This week my colleague Sarah Gregson (UNSW) and I are on the GLAMcity podcast talking about the history of work, labour under the Accord, and the memorialisation of those killed in the West Gate Bridge collapse & the Titanic disaster. You can listen to the...
Playdough Capitalism
Lessons in radical economic pedagogy. This post was first posted on the Progress in Political Economy blog, and the UTS Learning futures blog. *** When he visited Sydney a few years ago I met Bill Carroll, Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria in...
Take a walk around your neighbourhood
Lessons in radical economic pedagogy. This post was co-authored by Keith Heggart and myself, and posted on the UTS Learning and Teaching blog and the Progress in Political Economy blog. Take a walk In the first chapter of Economics for Everyone, Jim Stanford argues...
Living The Dream under The Accord (podcast)
Last week I was interviewed on the wonderful 'Living the Dream' podcast. We discussed the Accord, neoliberalism and the ALP Hawke-Keating government. Our focus was on recent articles by Van Badham and Wayne Swan in The Guardian, and how the ALP and unions are...
Wen you laugh togetha
By Elizabeth Humphrys and Jackie Lynch. This article first appeared on Overland Journal. The AFLW (Women’s Australian Football League) has happened and we couldn’t be happier about it, even if that happiness is often expressed in joyous weeping. There’s something...
Transcript: Morbid symptoms presentation
The following is the text of a presentation I gave this week, as part of the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar series ‘History Now’. This week’s topic was ‘The History of Class Now’. *** If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e. is no longer ‘leading’...
Will artificial intelligence destroy capitalism?
I recently took part in an episode of Think: Digital Futures, on 'Will artificial intelligence destroy capitalism?': There's no doubt that artificial intelligence is going to be smarter than humans — they're already driving cars and sorting files for us. So if no job...
Morbid symptoms in the history of class now
Next week I am speaking at the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar, as part of their History Now series. The topic is 'The History of Class Now'. Speaking chronologically are Hannah Forsyth (ACU), Terry Irving (University of Wollongong) and...