Essays, Commentary & Editorial

The New Deal for Working People: The labour interest in the national interest? Futures of Work (2024) link

‘How a red tide swept Cornwall – and securonomics could sustain it’. LabourList (2024) link

Cornwall shows how Labour’s green revolution needs governance from the ground up. Progressive Britain (2024) link

Securonomics beyond the ‘first political question’: Power, people and place. Progressive Britain (2024, with Andrew Pakes) link

Securonomics, the Mais Lecture and Critical Minerals in Cornwall. Renewal (2024) link

What is securonomics? Look to Germany and Sweden for clues, not just the US. LabourList (2023, with Andrew Pakes) link

Farewell Futures of Work, Hello Workplace Geopolitics? From Industrial Relations to International Relations. Futures of Work (2023, with Huw Thomas & Katie Bales) link

Putting Work Futures in Their Place on a Bristol Industrial Estate. Bristol 650: Essays on the Future of Bristol. Bristol Ideas. (2023, with M. Winter) link

Bringing ‘securonomics’ down to earth. Renewal Blog (2023) link

Politics at work in a time of Zeitenwende. Progressive Post (2023) link

Labour’s new politics of production? Futures of Work (2022, with Andrew Pakes) link

Connectivity Conflicts and the Contest for Cyberpower: On the Age of Unpeace. Progressive Britain (2022, with Andrew Pakes) link

The Politics of Work and the Politics of Value, Futures of Work (2022) link | pdf

Fair Pay Agreements: How Labour can help people get on at work—not just get even, Progressive Britain (2022, with Andrew Pakes) link

What Labour can learn from the dockers who sent Russian gas shipments packing, Labour List (2022, with Andrew Pakes) link

Rewarding work for all must be at the heart of Labour’s offer, The Times (2022, with Andrew Pakes) link

The End of History and the Last Man, 30 Years On, Bristol Festival of Ideas (2022) link | pdf

Ukraine and Progressive Foreign Policy, Labour Campaign for International Development (2022) link | pdf

Cold Wars and Class Wars, Futures of Work (2022) link | pdf

War and Wertkritik, Futures of Work (2022) link | pdf

Welcome to the Age of Workplace Geopolitics? Futures of Work (2021) link | pdf

Coworking in the City after Covid-19: Community versus Competition, Digit Blog (2021, with Odul Bozkurt, Greig Charnock, Jennifer Johns & Ed Yates) link

Labour's political strategy: Age, assets and the politics of work. LabourList (2021, with Jon Cruddas, Paul Thompson & Jo Ingold) link | pdf

Afghanistan and Progressive Foreign Policy. Labour Campaign for International Development (2021, with Paul Thompson) link | pdf

A Four Day Week: For the Win or For the Birds. Futures of Work (2021) link | pdf

The Labour Party and the Future of Work III: Elections, Economics and Culture. Renewal Blog (2021, with Jon Cruddas) link | pdf

The Labour Party and the Future of Work II: Policy, Productivity and Technology. Renewal Blog (2021, with Jon Cruddas) link | pdf

The Labour Party and the Future of Work I: Theory, Politics and Industrial Relations. Renewal Blog (2021, with Jon Cruddas) link | pdf

A revaluation of value? The politics of value between populism and pandemic. Polity Blog/Futures of Work (2020) link | pdf

A special relationship for the centre-left? Labour’s foreign policy reset. Labour List (2020, with Paul Thompson) link

The International Labour Organization's Pandemic Past Lights the Path to a Better Future. Futures of Work (2020, with Huw Thomas and Peter Turnbull) link

Automation and Crisis: Arguing the Future. Futures of Work (2020, with Ana Dinerstein) link

The International Labour Organization was founded after the Spanish flu – its past lights the path to a better future of work. The Conversation (2020, with Huw Thomas and Peter Turnbull) link

Alone, Together? Co-Working Spaces and the Covid-19 Crisis. Futures of Work (2020) link

COVID-19 and the Futures of Work: Editorial and Call for Contributions. Futures of Work (2020) link

Wearables, wellbeing and productivity: A digital future for industrial relations? Digital Societies (2019) link

Use or be used: Skills, technology and the future of work. Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus Blog (2019) link

What Does the Future of Work Look Like? Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus Blog (2019) link

SMart Solutions for the Self-Employed Beyond the British Way. Migration Mobilities Bristol Blog (2019) link | pdf

Introducing Student-as-Producer: A Bristol Perspective. Bristol Institute of Learning and Teaching Blog (2019) link | pdf

Making Claims on Value: Local and National Communities of the Productive. Futures of Work (2019, with Matt Bolton) link | pdf

Corbyn’s ‘rigged system’: campaign rhetoric or conspiracy theory? Jewish Chronicle (2019, with Matt Bolton) link

Abstract and Concrete Universals: Basic Services, Basic Infrastructure, Basic Income, Futures of Work (2018, with Lorena Lombardozzi) link | pdf

Corbyn Must Shake Off His Ideological Shackles And Tackle Brexit As It Actually Is, Not How He Wishes It Might Be, Huffington Post (2018, with Matt Bolton) link

To be a productive worker is not luck but misfortune, Futures of Work (2018, with Katie Bales and Huw Thomas) link | pdf

From the Future of Work to Futures of Work, Futures of Work (2018, with Katie Bales and Huw Thomas) link | pdf

Bullshit about jobs, RSA Blog (2018, with Paul Thompson) link | pdf

Marxism Revisited, Fabian Review (2018, with Jon Cruddas) link | pdf

Antisémitisme : le corbynisme doit changer sa vision du monde (2018, with Matt Bolton) link

To combat left anti-semitism, Corbynism must change the way it sees the world (2018, with Matt Bolton) link

The Point is Not to Change the World, But to Interpret it, Palgrave Perspectives Perspectives in Politics & International Studies (2018) link | pdf

Karl Marx, dead or alive – what legacy has he left behind? EFM Blog (2018) link | pdf

A new way of working for the self-employed- SMart, consultancy.coop (2017, with Alex Bird, Lauren Crowley and Philip Ross) link | pdf

Why basic income alone will not be a panacea to social insecurity, LSE Politics & Policy Blog (2017, with Neil Warner and Lorena Lombardozzi) link | pdf

Perspectives for Open Labour: A Politics of Radical Pessimism. Open Labour (2017, with Paul Thompson) link | pdf

The rational kernel of Osbornomics? Labour can liberate the National Living Wage. Social Europe (2016) link

Can Corbynism claim the centre ground? Open Democracy (2016) link

Popular delusions: Corbynism constructs its people. Open Democracy (2016) link

Corbynism changes the centre, but can it convert it? Disclaimer Mag (2016) link

A post-work economy of robots and machines is a bad utopia for the left. The Conversation (2016, with Ana Dinerstein and Graham Taylor) link | pdf

Talking on the clock: Bristol's 'new factories'. The Bristol Cable (2016) link | pdf

'Flexibility works both ways': Bristol's zero-hours lifestyles. The Bristol Cable (2016) link | pdf

Five more years of this: Introduction to a post-election symposium. Tor: The Open Review of the Social Sciences (2015) link | pdf

To know whether we face a new dot com bubble, look at how we work and consume. The Conversation. (2014) link | pdf

“Something in all men profoundly rejoices at seeing a car burn”: Pure Expenditure against Production, TelosScope (2013) link | pdf

Neither Marx nor Smith: Baudrillard’s Critique of Productivism, TelosScope (2013) link | pdf

Mario Tronti’s Anti-Social Socialism, TelosScope (2012) link | pdf

Mario Tronti's Critique of Trade Unionism, TelosScope (2012) link | pdf

Escape by Approximation: The Contemporary Relevance of Marcuse's Conceptualization of Labor, TelosScope (2012) link | pdf

Work Sucks: Dead Labor in Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, TelosScope (2012) link | pdf