Dr Harry Pitts
PhD, MRes, MA, BA Hons
Expertise
I am an academic writing, researching and teaching about the politics of fairer work futures, with a particular focus on how changes in working life relate to wider technological, (geo)political and economic transformations.
Current positions
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
School of Management - Business School
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Biography
I currently co-lead a project on socioeconomic foundations for good work and good growth in Cornwall as part of the Shared Prosperity Fund ‘Evolve Futures’ and ‘Entrepreneurial Futures’ programmes. I recently led a Foundation for European Progressive Studies/Progressive Britain programme on work, security and social democracy, culminating in two reports, A Progressive Politics of Work for the Age of Unpeace: What Labour Can Learn from the European Centre-Left, and Cybersecuronomics: Cybersecurity & Labour’s Modern Industrial Strategy.
I am co-editor of the Routledge Handbook for the Future of Work, and author/coauthor of five books: Marx in Management and Organisation Studies: Rethinking Value, Labour and Class Struggles 2022); A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia (2021); Value (2020); Corbynism: A Critical Approach (2018) and Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx (2017).
My commentary on policymaking, political economy and the politics of work has been widely featured and covered in media outlets including the Guardian, the Times, the Economist and the Financial Times. I have collaborated with organisations across the private, public and third sectors, including multinational corporations, local authorities, trades unions, government agencies, SMEs, social enterprises, think-tanks, pressure groups and policymakers.
Research interests
I am an academic writing, researching and teaching about the politics of fairer work futures, with a particular focus on how changes in working life relate to wider technological, (geo)political and economic transformations.
I am a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Director of Business Engagement & Innovation for the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences at University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus, located in my hometown of Penryn. I am also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol Business School, a Co-Investigator of the Economic & Social Research Council Centre for Sociodigital Futures, a Fellow of the Institute for the Future of Work, and Secretary of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association.
I currently co-lead a project on socioeconomic foundations for good work and good growth in Cornwall as part of Shared Prosperity Fund programmes delivered by Exeter Innovation. I recently led a Foundation for European Progressive Studies/Progressive Britain programme on work, security and social democracy, culminating in two reports, A Progressive Politics of Work for the Age of Unpeace: What Labour Can Learn from the European Centre-Left, and Cybersecuronomics: Cybersecurity & Labour’s Modern Industrial Strategy.
I am currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook for the Future of Work, and am the author or coauthor of five previous books: Marx in Management and Organisation Studies: Rethinking Value, Labour and Class Struggles (Routledge 2022); A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia (Emerald, 2021); Value (Polity, 2020); Corbynism: A Critical Approach (Emerald, 2018) and Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx (Palgrave, 2017).
My commentary on policymaking, political economy and the politics of work has been widely featured and covered in media outlets including the Guardian, the Times, the Economist and the Financial Times. I have collaborated with organisations across the private, public and third sectors, including multinational corporations, local authorities, trades unions, government agencies, SMEs, social enterprises, think-tanks, pressure groups and policymakers.
You can find out more about me and my story in this recent profile published to celebrate 20 years of the University of Exeter’s campus in Penryn, Cornwall.
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
01/01/2024Labour Process Theory and the legacy of operaismo. New directions, old problems
Sociologia Del Lavoro
From coworking to competing? Business models and strategies of UK coworking spaces beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
Competition & Change
Labour, Antisemitism and the Critique of Political Economy
Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism
Recent publications
19/03/2024Open Marxism
Encyclopaedia of Critical Political Science
From coworking to competing? Business models and strategies of UK coworking spaces beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
Competition & Change
Labour Process Theory and the legacy of operaismo. New directions, old problems
Sociologia Del Lavoro
Labour, Antisemitism and the Critique of Political Economy
Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism
Organising the self-employed: combining community unionism, coworking and cooperativism across contexts
Open Research Europe