2017 Political Economy Seminar Series
Kurt Iveson (University of Sydney) ‘Crowds, clouds, and digital labour: Further adventures in the commodification of everyday urban life’Date: Thursday 11 May 2017
Time: 4pm-5.30pm
Location: Darlington Centre Boardroom, [...]
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For growing numbers of urban inhabitants, smartphones and their mobile apps have become essential tools for everyday life.
In the decade since smartphones first became popularised, many millions of people in cities around the world have grown used to using apps for finding and making [...]
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Public Letter from Economists, April 6 2017
Australia’s Fair Work Commission has recently decided to reduce penalty rates for work on Sundays and public holidays in the retail and hospitality sectors. Rates would fall by 25 to 50 percentage points of base wages, for most employees [...]
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Holidays are important. We dream about them. We plan them. We take them on our own, with family, and with friends. Paid holidays are among the greatest social achievements of workers, reformers and the labour movement. Paid annual leave democratises the holiday and allows millions of [...]
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In our recently published article in Geoforum, Ben Selwyn and I discuss alternative models of development that go beyond the neoliberal and statist paradigms that dominate debate. In this post I offer an overview of our main arguments and highlight some of the key empirical findings drawn [...]
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In 2014, Ben Selwyn published the book The Global Development Crisis, in which he critically engages with market-led and state-led developmental models alike. Importantly, he puts forward the novel concept of labour centred development. In this blog post, I will discuss the main [...]
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for presentation at this workshop that will bring together leading scholars working at the interface between GPN analysis and global labour issues to galvanize the debate on the social implications of GPN, and to gain strategic insights on what [...]
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A massive, nationwide strike caused major disruption to India’s economy on 2 September, popularised as Bharat Bandh (literally ‘India closed’ in Hindi/Sanskrit). Some unions have claimed this was the largest general strike in history, with up to 150 million workers involved and costs to [...]
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