I am a Senior Lecturer in Management at Essex Business School, where my research focuses on work, crisis and technology. I am expert member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, and a research affiliate of the Oxford Internet Institute. I also edit Notes from Below, a workers’ inquiry platform that studies the contemporary economy from the ground up.

Authorship

My forthcoming book is Feeding the Machine, an ethnographic study of the global production networks that produce Artificial Intelligence, with James Muldoon and Mark Graham. It will be published in mid-2024 by Bloomsbury in the US and Canongate in the UK and Rest of World. My first book, Riding for Deliveroo, is an investigation of class struggle in platform capitalism from the workers’ point of view and was published by Polity in 2019. I have written over a hundred articles for publications ranging from The Guardian and The Independent to Novara Media, Red Pepper, and The New Internationalist. From 2018 to 2019 I wrote a column, Stay Classy, for Vice Magazine on strikes in the UK. I am represented by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit.

Background

I grew up in Hampshire. I spread my studies across the Universities of Warwick, Sussex, and West London. I took a break from academia to work in the Momentum communications team in the 2019 general election, and then led the team as Head of Communications in 2020-21. From 2021-23 I completed a postdoc at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford collaborating on the Fairwork AI project with the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence. I’ve been an organiser in progressive movements since 2012, working with students, renters, workers, migrants, and anti-racists. I currently live in South East London with my wife and our dog. In my spare time I run ultramarathons and support Crystal Palace.