Reaching the end as a state employee I decided to take a trip to the west coast of Tasmania. It’s a region defined by mines, forests and its isolation from the largest settlements during colonisation. And towns established to service industries have been abandoned and deprived of any [...]
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When Raewyn Connell and I wrote Class Structure in Australian History the organised working class was in a militant mood. Today in Australia we are in a very different moment. Unions are smaller and corralled by the state, social-democratic corporatism has succumbed to neo-liberalism, [...]
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This is the third in a series of posts for the Unconventional Wisdom section of the Progress in Political Economy blog, written by Honours students within the Department of Political Economy. It stems from the cohort of Honours students that took the unit coordinated by Adam Morton entitled [...]
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The EU referendum in Britain has created remorse for us all. With all the vitriol unfolding over the Brexit result, people close to me have been prodding with a pointy finger to make my own stance clear. This, to me, was a surprise.
In the buildup, I did not campaign on the referendum [...]
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The issue of precarious work and of the organisation of precarious workers is becoming one of the core themes of research not just within the sociology of work and labour but also across the whole social sciences’ spectrum. Conditions of precariousness or precarity at work are in fact [...]
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Erik Olin Wright (University of Madiscon-Wisconsin) 'How to be an anti-capitalist for the twenty-first century?'
This is to announce a unique workshop at the University of Sydney centred around the hosting of Professor Erik Olin Wright in the Department of Political Economy as an Honorary [...]
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When Erik Olin Wright ‘fell into Marxism’ in the 1970s, it was ‘the only game in town’ for a serious radical scholar, and in the process of storming the academic social sciences. By the 1990s this was no longer so, with Marxism retreating to the margins inside and outside the academy. Wright [...]
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How is the causative role of ideas appreciated in understanding the political economy of neoliberalism?
My latest journal article published in Globalizations delves into this question through a feature review on an outstanding book now available in paperback, which is Damien [...]
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