The future of work will be built on how we understand the past.
This cross-faculty research node investigates histories of work, technology and political economy. We draw on the past to inform understandings of present employment dynamics and the future of work. Our work is driven by a desire to understand the relationships between power, technology and labour.
Research areas include:
Labour history and historical political economy
Regulation of work and technology
Experiences of technological change
Social justice and equality in the history of work and technology
Industrialisation and deindustrialisation
Labour unions and industrial struggle
The creativity of labour
Histories of industrial crafts and trades
The criminalisation of labour
Workplace health and safety and industrial disasters
