Episode 233: The Future of Work
Work. We do it, but how do we strike the delicate balance between worker's rights and employer's responsibilities? L. Joy brings London-based researcher and senior lecturer, Dr. Jamie Woodcock to the front of the class to discuss the history of, context around, changes in, and future of work.
Homework:
Unions are not dead. Not represented by a union, but want to be? Check out how to form one on the National Labor Relations Board’s website https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/your-right-to-form-a-union#:~:text=Not%20represented%20by%20a%20union,NLRB%20will%20conduct%20an%20election.
READ: Dr. Jamie Woodcock’s books, journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, popular articles, and reports https://www.jamiewoodcock.net/publications/
Our Guest:
Dr Jamie Woodcock is a senior lecturer at the University of Essex. He is the author of books including The Fight Against Platform Capitalism (University of Westminster Press, 2021), The Gig Economy (Polity, 2019), Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket, 2019), and Working the Phones (Pluto, 2017).
His research is inspired by workers' inquiry and focuses on labour, work, the gig economy, platforms, resistance, organising, and videogames. He is on the editorial board of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.
Jamie completed his PhD in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and has held positions at Goldsmiths, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, Queen Mary, NYU London, Cass Business School, the LSE, the University of Oxford, and the Open University.
