Histories of Work and Technology

STREAM LEADER
Elizabeth Humphrys

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

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Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.