Globalisation has been shifting manufacturing from richer to poorer countries for decades. In its initial phase, the global shift of labour-intensive products like garments, shoes and toys was criticised as an exercise in the exploitation of low-wage labour—the so-called ‘low road’ of [...]
0301
Sarah Kaine, 'Long-term non-market strategies: how platform economy firms create favourable regulatory space'
The proliferation of platform businesses has presented a regulatory challenge in jurisdictions around the world as start-ups have sought to shape the rules that define the markets [...]
0202
Platform work has been widely heralded as a liberating, progressive development that provides workers with the opportunity to become micro-entrepreneurs and enjoy the freedom and autonomy of ‘being their own boss’.
In a nutshell, my honours thesis, Future of work: Formal rights, [...]
4927
Writing an undergraduate-orientated textbook that gives students strong analytical tools to unpack the rapidly changing world of labour is easier said than done. Perversely, the concept of labour is one that garners less recognition among many undergraduate students precisely at a time when [...]
0601
“Jobs” are so yesterday, we are told. Instead, the future of work is all about “gigs.” Never mind old-fashioned features like regular schedules, annual leave, or superannuation. Digital platforms and smart-phone apps will free workers from those outdated constraints, allowing us to move [...]
01781
Conference on Quantified Workers in Precarity and Two Book Launches
Friday 13 October 2017. Sign up for a ticket on Eventbrite
Dr Phoebe Moore p.moore@mdx.ac.uk , organised with Christiana Rose c.rose@ mdx.ac.uk, School of Law, Middlesex University
Final event for Dr Moore’s [...]
0421
Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?
My next book is about to come out. Published by Routledge, this is the summation of about four years of [...]
0650
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, [...]
01255
