Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, University of Western Australia
Caleb Goods is a Lecturer of Management and Organisations in the University of Western Australia Business School. He is a co-investigator on a national Canadian research project entitled “Adapting Canadian Work and Workplace to Climate Change: Canada in International Perspective”. The project is based out of York University, Canada, where Caleb completed a one year Post-Doctorate in 2015. Caleb completed his PhD in 2013 at Curtin University. His research focuses on the concept of creating green jobs and the interlinking of greening work, the broader economy and contemporary society. He is author of Greening Auto Jobs: a critical analysis of green job solution ISBN 978-0-7391-8980-1.
Caleb is the Chief Investigator of a University of Western Australia research project examining work and workers lived experiences in the ‘gig economy’. Caleb has also conducted research on industrial relations in the mining industry, the changing face of public education and work in the care sector.
What's driving Uber's historic agreement with the TWU on gig work
Jun 29, 2022 14:20 pm UTC| Business
Uber Australia has struck a historic agreement with the Transport Workers Union a statement of principles that re-regulate work in the Australian rideshare and food delivery industry. This is a major shift to...
A better deal for Uber drivers in UK, but Australia's ‘gig workers' must wait
Apr 04, 2021 10:37 am UTC| Economy
Ubers announcement earlier this month it will now treat its drivers in the United Kingdom as workers rather than independent contractors is a significant development for the so-called gig economy. It follows Uber losing...
Being exploited and breaching your visa: the limited choices of the food delivery worker
Aug 21, 2017 07:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Some of the most vulnerable workers in the Australian labour market are squeezed between a rock and a hard place. You can never do your homework, you are so tired and you just think about how to cook the next meal and...
'The way they manipulate people is really saddening': study shows the trade-offs in gig work
Jun 21, 2017 15:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Uber driver Michelle, thinks her job is fantastic when shes only after part-time hours. But shes given it a couple of months and she says shes not getting anywhere. To be able to earn A$800 she has to actually pull in...
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