AIER’s Executive Director, Clare Ozich, along with Colleen Chen from Interns Australia have presented their paper “Getting Ahead or Exploitation: A comparative analysis of the rise of internships and collective actions to advance the rights of interns” at the Regulating Decent Work conference in Geneva.
More information on the key themes from the conference and relevant issues for Australia coming soon.
- Executive Member, AIER
- Sean Scalmer is Professor of Australian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at Melbourne University. Sean studied political economy and political science at the University of Sydney, before undertaking a PhD on intellectuals and class in the Australian labour movement. He worked as a research fellow in the Department of Politics, Macquarie University (1998-2004), then as a Lecturer in Sociology (2004-2006) at the same University. He joined the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne in 2007. Sean’s major interests are in the histories of social movements, class, and democracy. orders for food delivery platform workers. [Bio from Sean Scalmer’s Melbourne University webpage]