Heat and work during the pandemic

Heat and work during the pandemic

Elizabeth Humphrys has published a new book chapter in Jesse Adams Stein and Chantel Carr’s edited volume Working through Planetary Breakdown: Labour, Skill and the Changing Climate. Her chapter is on the experiences of blue-collar United Workers Union members —...
Work Health and Safety, Adaptation and Climate Change

Work Health and Safety, Adaptation and Climate Change

Dr Elizabeth Humphrys has a chapter in the new Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals. The compendium is a mammoth effort — it has 50 or so chapters from world leading scholars on key questions in the world of work, and critiques on the...
Temperature Triggers: Spain and China

Temperature Triggers: Spain and China

‘Stop work’ temperature triggers have emerged as a prominent trade union demand to alleviate the risks of higher temperatures on workers. In a new report prepared for the Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre (CSERC) UTS and the Too Hot To Work project,...
Symposium: Labour and Climate Change

Symposium: Labour and Climate Change

On 12 July Too Hot for Work and C-SERC convened a symposium for political economists, geographers and aligned social scientists investigating the impacts of climate change on workers. Researchers are examining a broad range of often intersecting issues — labour...