Joe Kearsey

Contact

• workRoom A33 Sir Clive Granger Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Joe.Kearsey@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I joined the School of Geography in 2023, having previously been a PhD candidate at Nottingham University Business School. My research has focused on labour, precarious work, the gig-economy, class struggle and workers' collective organisation, particularly within independent and migrant-led trade unions.

Teaching Summary

I teach on the following modules:

Exploring Human Geography

Economic Geography

Techniques in Human Geography

Research Summary

My doctoral research has concentrated on workers' collective organisation and struggle within independent and migrant-led trade unions. It has taken the form of an ethnographic case study which has… read more

Current Research

My doctoral research has concentrated on workers' collective organisation and struggle within independent and migrant-led trade unions. It has taken the form of an ethnographic case study which has sought to understand what factors have facilitated class-based mobilisations among private hire drivers, and how these workers' relation to capital, the labour process, and position within society more generally has influenced their current form of collective organisation. This has constituted a class composition analysis via a partisan and participatory approach which has drawn on the method of workers' inquiry.