by Elizabeth Humphrys | Apr 14, 2025 | Climate Change, unions
I’m really happy to have a chapter in the Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals, published earlier this year. The compendium is a mammoth effort — it has 50 or so chapters from world leading scholars on key questions in the world...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jan 30, 2025 | Climate Change
In my article in the Journal of Industrial Relations, in a volume acknowledging the journal’s 65th year, I examine the growing impacts of climate change on work health and safety (WHS) and argue that Australia is poorly prepared to protect workers from these...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Oct 19, 2023 | Climate Change, unions
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:...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jun 8, 2023 | Australian Economy, Climate Change, 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...
