The XX ISA conference will be held in Melbourne in June 2023, and the call for papers is now open. I am organising a session titled Learning from the Past: Historical Approaches to Labour Strategy and Their Contemporary Applications. The portal for submitting an abstract to the panel is now open. The session description is below: Rapidly…
Signed by 124 Labour Market, Employment Relations and Labour Law Researchers For the last several years, Australian wages have experienced an unprecedented slowdown. Nominal wages have been growing at only about 2% per year since 2015. That’s barely half the traditional pace of growth experienced over the preceding 50 years – and the slowest sustained…
[jumbotron heading=”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 in which they operate. Uber is the most obvious and well-known example. It has…
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, University of Sydney About the speaker: Kurt Iveson is Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Sydney. His…
