Book Launch: Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis
Global Capitalism. Global War. Global Crisis. How can these conditions be understood in terms of their internal relationship so as to capture capital’s connection to the states-system of uneven and combined development, social [...]
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A strike that was forced onto the union UCU (University and College Union) by intransigent employers and a determined membership became one of the largest and most important strikes in the academic sector of the imperialist countries, with around 64 universities in the UK participating in [...]
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The recent global financial crisis sparked renewed debates, both within academia and policy-making circles, about regulating highly mobile cross-border money-capital flows. A particular type of policy tool has received considerable attention: capital controls (CC). Within mainstream [...]
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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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