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Frederick Harry Pitts
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Associate Professor in Political Economy & the Future of Work/Head of Department for Humanities & Social Sciences at University of Exeter in 〓〓. Co-Investigator for the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures & UKRI Critical Minerals Challenge Centre.
Great to see our @ukri.org Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk mentioned in Vision 2035, the government's new Critical Minerals Strategy. As test case for securonomics in action, it has a clear focus on Cornwall's tin, tungsten & lithium. 🔗in thread below

www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
On the right side of a wrong history? Matt Bolton and I were asked to revisit the themes of our 2018 book Corbynism: A Critical Approach for @unherd.com, and reflect on the challenges for Labour from a new party of the left: unherd.com/2025/07/is-c...
July 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"Marxism can be misused & without modification can justify authoritarian politics. Pitts represents a current that recognizes this".

Nice review of my book Marx in Management & Organisation Studies: Rethinking Value, Labour & Class Struggles: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Outgoing @buiraonline.bsky.social
president, Pete Turnbull, closes our 2025 conference ‘Putting Industrial Relations in its Place: The Geographies of Good Work’.

The conference at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social caps off our 3-year term as the
@bristoluni.bsky.social
led BUIRA stewardship team 👋
June 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Delighted to welcome @kenanmalik.bsky.social to @hass-cornwall.bsky.social for @buiraonline.bsky.social conference 2025.

His keynote lecture will outline ‘a short history of the making of the ‘white working class’’.
June 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Pleasure to open @buiraonline.bsky.social's 2025 conference at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social yesterday, introducing two great keynotes from Al Rainnie on place-based approaches to green steel in South Australia & Jane Wills on the history of the labour movement in the context of contemporary populism.
June 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations & International Relations

A webinar hosted by @crimt.bsky.social with @buiraonline.bsky.social

Feat: @daliagf.bsky.social, @valepuligna.bsky.social, plus me & @huwthomas.bsky.social on our @jirjournal.bsky.social special issue

crimt.net/en/activites...
April 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A late Christmas present in the post today: the Handbook for the Future of Work which I coedited with @jmacleavy.bsky.social as part of the Routledge International Handbooks Series.

For full contents and info on ebook access, inspection copies & library orders see: www.routledge.com/The-Handbook...
January 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM