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Sociologist of work & economy at Australian Catholic University (ACU), Sydney. Researching insecure/precarious work/life & production regimes in Asia & Australia. Focus on global warehouse logistics & auto manufacturing.
Profilehttps://www.acu.edu.au/research-and-enterprise/our-research-institutes/institute-for-humanities-and-social-sciences/our-people/tom-barnes
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LnpML90AAAAJ&hl=en
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/drtombarnes
Chris Smith & Yu Zheng contrast two labour regimes in UK warehouse #logistics: ‘pre-formed workers’ & ‘under-formed workers’ - fascinating & important paper presented at #ilpc2023
Chris Tilly asks: are US retail jobs being displaced, enriched or degraded by technology & economic change? #futureofwork #ilpc2023
Benjamin Selwyn opens #ilpc2023 in Glasgow with the piercing claim that #GlobalValueChains are a class project which sharpens labour exploitation & leads to #ecocide
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space is now on mastodon! (We will keep and continue to update our Twitter account as well.)
Just signed up to this site… still on that other site - same handle! - but for how much longer, who knows?!😊 Keen to follow anyone else who’s into critical studies of work, #labour, #politicaleconomy, #development, etc etc 👋 #highered #labor #sociology #economicsociology #unions #precariouswork #futureofwork