@fhpitts.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Political Economy & the Future of Work/Interim 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.
Next in our series of Research Shorts is Prof. Jamie Hampson on rock art.
Humans have been creating rock art for more than 70,000 years. At HaSS Cornwall we consider why, and think about how understanding art helps us understand what it means to be human.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAf0...
Tradition is not only about continuity – it can also be about change.
At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore how continuous ritual traditions have been interpreted in radically different ways across the centuries.
Find out more in our new Research Shorts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-n...
You can watch the full series of videos at our website here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/research/
@exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social
'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum.
At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability.
Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos:
youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...
My colleague Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social launches our new @hass-cornwall.bsky.social short video series with a brilliant reflection on remembrance & forgetting.
Hear more about our interdisciplinary research here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/research/
@uniofexeternews.bsky.social
Me for @progbrit.bsky.social on the Chancellor's visit to South Crofty in Cornwall yesterday.
The critical minerals sector symbolises some of the promise of 'securonomics', its importance recognised in both industrial policy & national security strategy.
www.progressivebritain.org/the-chancell...
Great new @ippr.org report from @sachahilhorst.bsky.social, making very clear the link between the decline of community spaces and the rise of the radical right. Sacha reimagines the 20th century miners' welfare fund as a model for reviving social infrastructure:
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
@uniofexeternews.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
29.07.2025 05:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excited to continue exploring these themes through the new Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk
We explore how Cornwall's tin, lithium & tungsten reserves contribute to security and sustainability, as well as good jobs and local growth: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk
I later wrote about lithium and the themes of Reeves's 2024 Mais Lecture: renewal.org.uk/blog/securon...
The pieces draw upon ongoing work with @progbrit.bsky.social and @feps-europe.eu on securonomics and the politics of place-based industrial policy: www.progressivebritain.org/putting-indu...
The Chancellor is visiting the epicentre of the Cornish mining revival, South Crofty: theguardian.com/business/202...
Great to see tin understood as a test case for Reeves's 'securonomics', as I suggested in a piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social a few years ago: renewal.org.uk/blog/bringin...
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...
23.07.2025 07:41 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
‘Perhaps a rebooted version of Corbynism has the opportunity to prosper in ways it could not before.’ | Matthew Bolton and Frederick Harry Pitts
unherd.com/2025/07/is-c...
Typically excellent from @philtinline.bsky.social.
I think that quote from a Starmer aide - "tough on populism, tough on the causes of populism" - really should be a guiding force for this government.
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...
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Starmer and Rayner have sounded the alarm over a social fabric that is 'fraying at the edges' and concern this translates into disorder. Rayner's analysis and prescription isn't new but is, for the most part, right. The briefing is putting a lot in faith in the Plan for Neighbourhoods as a response.
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If you missed the launch of our Good Work Monitor on Tuesday, you can watch the webinar - featuring @teraallas.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social - here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTk...
17.07.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Join us at midday today for our launch webinar with IFOW Founding Director, Anna Thomas MBE in conversation with Prof @teraallas.bsky.social CBE and Dr @fhpitts.bsky.social about the power of this dataset for understanding how to better 'Get Britain Working': www.ifow.org/event/gettin...
15.07.2025 07:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Reminder that tomorrow we're launching our Good Work Monitor - a unique tool that tracks trends in productivity and 6 dimensions of good work across all 203 LAs in England, Scotland and Wales. Midday webinar with @fhpitts.bsky.social and @teraallas.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.com/e/getting-br...
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On Tuesday we're launching our Good Work Monitor - a unique tool that tracks productivity and six dimensions of good work across all 203 local authorities in England, Wales and Scotland. Join us for a launch webinar, with @teraallas.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social
www.ifow.org/event/gettin...
Exciting to be joining the panel for the launch of @ifow.org’s Good Work Monitor 2025 next week.
I’ll be talking about how the GWM helps us understand workforce & skills strategy in Cornwall’s changing economy.
Read more here: www.ifow.org/news-article...
And here: www.ifow.org/publications...
A scenic view of several boats moored in Penryn, Cornwall on a clear day.
A view of Falmouth high street, featuring various shop fronts and bunting hanging overhead.
Falmouth harbour with boats resting on exposed sand at low tide and more boats moored on the water beyond.
Penryn high street looking towards the clock tower.
I had a great time last week at the @buiraonline.bsky.social 2025. It was such a friendly conference, packed with good discussions around the geographies of good work. And, of course, being in Cornwall, I got a much needed dose of ‘vitamin sea’!
04.07.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you like the sound of what you read in @managementlearning.bsky.social, the book - which came out in hardback in 2022 - is now available in an affordably priced paperback version at @routledgebuseco.bsky.social / @routledgebooks.bsky.social here:
www.routledge.com/Marx-in-Mana...
"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/...
Delighted to have our re-launch covered in Le Monde
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
Finally back home from the @buiraonline.bsky.social conference. Great to catch up with friends old and new and present comparative work on strike datasets. I'm also very pleased be elected to BUIRA's Executive Committee for the next three years. Thanks to the Bristol team for a great conference!
27.06.2025 20:15 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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 👋
‘To unlock Cornwall’s full economic potential, we must invest in the people who power our economy’
Great to see now out for consultation this new Workforce & Skills Strategy for Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly, developed with colleagues from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social & @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
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’’.
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.
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