HASS Penryn: Recent submissions
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Emergence, Development, and Impact of Population Displacement in Damascus During Syria’s Civil War
(Routledge, 15 May 2024)Although displacement has been an important feature of many contemporary conflicts, this has not been accompanied by a sustained recognition or acknowledgement that it is an active or ongoing dimension of conflict, with ... -
Conclusions and future challenges: The end of work and the end of history
(Routledge, 26 December 2024)This concluding chapter further dismantles the notion of a technologically determined future of work, championing instead a more nuanced understanding that recognises the significant influence of social, economic and ... -
An Introduction to the Handbook for the Future of Work
(Routledge, 26 December 2024)The Handbook for the Future of Work offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of a series of key debates concerning the changing nature of work and employment. The temporal focus is primarily on the last twenty years, ... -
Value struggles in digital Taylorism: Scientific management and social mediation
(SAGE Publications, 2025)In the famous mantra of McKinsey, ‘what gets measured gets managed’. Drawing on previous work (Pitts 2021, 2022a, 2022b), the point of this chapter is to suggest that what gets measured gets mediated, too, and that labour ... -
Reckoning with responsibility: The Mesopotamia Commission into British military failings during a moment of imperial transformation, 1916-1919
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 23 March 2024)In August 1916, in the aftermath of significant defeats in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War, the British government faced a crisis of confidence in its military power. In Mesopotamia, it was under ...