Project members Elizabeth Humphrys and Freya Newman have published an academic article in the Critical Sociology journal, titled ‘Construction Workers in a Climate Precarious World’. 

The article focuses on climatic heat stress as a matter of occupational health and safety, in relation to the notion of precarious labour. We argue that:

‘…climatic heat stress events both exacerbate already existing precariousness and present opportunities to act on that status and in relation to the climate crisis.’ 

The article draws from Freya’s research in 2018 on heat stress in the NSW building and construction industry. If you have access to SAGE journals, you can read the full academic article online here, which will be published in a special issue on precarity.

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Image: John Cowper, Sydney Metro Communications. Sydney Metro – Barangaroo – TBM Kathleen Cutterhead, June 2 2019 [link].