Tom Barratt
Biographic Data
| ID | 387230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Barratt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Barratt |
| SIGNATURE | BARRATT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2733-2123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
(Institutionally) Working Australia's gig economy into employment: Analysing Menulog's modern award application
This paper examines the modern award application made in April 2021 by Menulog Pty Ltd., an app-based food-delivery platform, and charters the subsequent process which was handled by the Fair Work Commission, Australia's main industrial relations tribunal. This, ultimately unsuccessful, application for a new modern award was part of an organisational strategy that would have seen Menulog treat its delivery workers as employees rather than contrac…
Woeful Pay, But Still, I Enjoy It’: Refining Subjective Job Quality in Ride‐Share Work
Workers who experience structural barriers in the labour market are overrepresented in the gig economy. There is limited research on how the broader context of labour markets and welfare systems shapes workers' motivations for, and subjective understandings of, ride‐share work. Using established concepts of ‘constrained agency’, ‘labour market objectives’ and ‘life stories’ from labour geography, this study develops a conceptual framework to adva…
Teacher wellbeing and teaching excellence in higher education: Exploring the interplay through the lens of the Perma framework
Recognising the pivotal role of teacher wellbeing in fostering teaching excellence, this paper explores the intricate relationships in the context of higher education. Employing an abductive, qualitative methodology and expanding the use of the PERMA framework to in the realm of higher education, this paper investigates the associations between teachers' perceptions of excellence to five elements of wellbeing: positive emotions (P), engagement (E…
Psychosocial workplace hazards and industrial relations: An introduction
This article introduces the special issue, bringing together research on psychosocial workplace hazards (PSWH) which engages industrial relations (IR) perspectives. This is important as PSWH are increasingly studied and regulated, with new regulatory frameworks creating opportunity and necessity for IR perspectives to engage with PSWH. These hazards are intimately related to power relations between employers, workers and the broader society withi…
Power resources for disempowered workers? Re‐conceptualizing the power and potential of consumers in app‐based food delivery
Consumers play an integral role in the labor process of app‐based food delivery services through their consumption behaviors and performance ratings of workers. Some therefore see them as a potential ally of workers, whereas others view them as beholden by capital. This quantitative study uses power resource theory and a Rasch model to appraise consumers' understandings and attitudes toward working conditions in this segment of the “gig” economy.…
Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns
The 'spatial fix' has been central to economic geography for nearly 50 years, examining capitalist development through both stability and change. Harvey's original conceptions of the fix prioritised capital's capacity to fix space to accumulate and forestall crisis. We continue this by considering the ' socio-spatial fix', allowing closer investigation of who makes the landscapes of capitalism, and how actor choices and actor inter- and intra-rel…
Hyper-peripheral regional evolution: The "long histories" of the Pilbara and Buryatia
In this article, we outline how evolutionary economic geography (EEG) explains peripheral economic development by comparing two peripheries over extended time periods. This comparison involves critically appraising EEG's capacity to account for peripheral evolution. For geographical, historical, and political reasons, peripheries lack resources that lead to path creation and renewal. The hyper-peripheral regions of the Pilbara in north-west Austr…
‘I’m my own boss…’: Active intermediation and ‘entrepreneurial’ worker agency in the Australian gig-economy
Platform firm in the gig-economy are disrupting work as a social practice, production systems and recasting capital-labour relations. This qualitative study examines worker agency in the Australian food-delivery sector; a segment where platforms actively intermediate both product and labour markets. Within this sector, worker agency poses a potential challenge to platform-organisations; however this study reveals how these platforms’ work organis…
Platform-Capital's 'App-etite' for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia
This qualitative case study adopts a labour process analysis to unpack the distinctive features of capital's control regimes in the food-delivery segment of the Australian platform-economy and assesses labour agency in response to these. Drawing upon worker experiences with the Deliveroo and UberEATS platforms, it is shown how the labour process controls are multi-facetted and more than algorithmic management, with three distinct features standin…
“Is your gig any good?” Analysing job quality in the Australian platform-based food-delivery sector
This qualitative industry case study evaluates job quality in the Australian platform-based food-delivery sector, one part of the growing gig economy where workers, as independent contractors, engage in digitally-enabled and controlled work that is remunerated on a piece rate basis. Using a multi-dimensional framework, we draw on worker accounts of economic security, autonomy and enjoyment to assess job quality. This study posits that to achieve …
Temporality and the evolution of GPNs: Remaking BHP’s Pilbara iron ore network
Global production networks (GPNs) exist across time as well as space, an idea that is underplayed within GPN theory. To consider how time influences the remaking of the network and region, the paper explores the temporal development of one iron ore GPN in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Its emphasis is on temporality and, drawing upon evolutionary economic geography (EEG), the paper shows that GPNs are created over and with time. This ma…
Spiritual Advice to a Seeker: Letters to T. B. Barratt from Azusa Street, 1906
Platform-Capital's 'App-etite' for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia
This qualitative case study adopts a labour process analysis to unpack the distinctive features of capital's control regimes in the food-delivery segment of the Australian platform-economy and assesses labour agency in response to these. Drawing upon worker experiences with the Deliveroo and UberEATS platforms, it is shown how the labour process controls are multi-facetted and more than algorithmic management, with three distinct features standin…
Temporality and the evolution of GPNs: Remaking BHP’s Pilbara iron ore network
Global production networks (GPNs) exist across time as well as space, an idea that is underplayed within GPN theory. To consider how time influences the remaking of the network and region, the paper explores the temporal development of one iron ore GPN in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Its emphasis is on temporality and, drawing upon evolutionary economic geography (EEG), the paper shows that GPNs are created over and with time. This ma…
Hyper-peripheral regional evolution: The "long histories" of the Pilbara and Buryatia
In this article, we outline how evolutionary economic geography (EEG) explains peripheral economic development by comparing two peripheries over extended time periods. This comparison involves critically appraising EEG's capacity to account for peripheral evolution. For geographical, historical, and political reasons, peripheries lack resources that lead to path creation and renewal. The hyper-peripheral regions of the Pilbara in north-west Austr…
Spiritual Advice to a Seeker: Letters to T. B. Barratt from Azusa Street, 1906
“Is your gig any good?” Analysing job quality in the Australian platform-based food-delivery sector
This qualitative industry case study evaluates job quality in the Australian platform-based food-delivery sector, one part of the growing gig economy where workers, as independent contractors, engage in digitally-enabled and controlled work that is remunerated on a piece rate basis. Using a multi-dimensional framework, we draw on worker accounts of economic security, autonomy and enjoyment to assess job quality. This study posits that to achieve …
Temporality and the evolution of GPNs: Remaking BHP’s Pilbara iron ore network
Global production networks (GPNs) exist across time as well as space, an idea that is underplayed within GPN theory. To consider how time influences the remaking of the network and region, the paper explores the temporal development of one iron ore GPN in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Its emphasis is on temporality and, drawing upon evolutionary economic geography (EEG), the paper shows that GPNs are created over and with time. This ma…
‘I’m my own boss…’: Active intermediation and ‘entrepreneurial’ worker agency in the Australian gig-economy
Platform firm in the gig-economy are disrupting work as a social practice, production systems and recasting capital-labour relations. This qualitative study examines worker agency in the Australian food-delivery sector; a segment where platforms actively intermediate both product and labour markets. Within this sector, worker agency poses a potential challenge to platform-organisations; however this study reveals how these platforms’ work organis…
Platform-Capital's 'App-etite' for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia
This qualitative case study adopts a labour process analysis to unpack the distinctive features of capital's control regimes in the food-delivery segment of the Australian platform-economy and assesses labour agency in response to these. Drawing upon worker experiences with the Deliveroo and UberEATS platforms, it is shown how the labour process controls are multi-facetted and more than algorithmic management, with three distinct features standin…
Hyper-peripheral regional evolution: The "long histories" of the Pilbara and Buryatia
In this article, we outline how evolutionary economic geography (EEG) explains peripheral economic development by comparing two peripheries over extended time periods. This comparison involves critically appraising EEG's capacity to account for peripheral evolution. For geographical, historical, and political reasons, peripheries lack resources that lead to path creation and renewal. The hyper-peripheral regions of the Pilbara in north-west Austr…
Power resources for disempowered workers? Re‐conceptualizing the power and potential of consumers in app‐based food delivery
Consumers play an integral role in the labor process of app‐based food delivery services through their consumption behaviors and performance ratings of workers. Some therefore see them as a potential ally of workers, whereas others view them as beholden by capital. This quantitative study uses power resource theory and a Rasch model to appraise consumers' understandings and attitudes toward working conditions in this segment of the “gig” economy.…
Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns
The 'spatial fix' has been central to economic geography for nearly 50 years, examining capitalist development through both stability and change. Harvey's original conceptions of the fix prioritised capital's capacity to fix space to accumulate and forestall crisis. We continue this by considering the ' socio-spatial fix', allowing closer investigation of who makes the landscapes of capitalism, and how actor choices and actor inter- and intra-rel…
Teacher wellbeing and teaching excellence in higher education: Exploring the interplay through the lens of the Perma framework
Recognising the pivotal role of teacher wellbeing in fostering teaching excellence, this paper explores the intricate relationships in the context of higher education. Employing an abductive, qualitative methodology and expanding the use of the PERMA framework to in the realm of higher education, this paper investigates the associations between teachers' perceptions of excellence to five elements of wellbeing: positive emotions (P), engagement (E…
Psychosocial workplace hazards and industrial relations: An introduction
This article introduces the special issue, bringing together research on psychosocial workplace hazards (PSWH) which engages industrial relations (IR) perspectives. This is important as PSWH are increasingly studied and regulated, with new regulatory frameworks creating opportunity and necessity for IR perspectives to engage with PSWH. These hazards are intimately related to power relations between employers, workers and the broader society withi…
(Institutionally) Working Australia's gig economy into employment: Analysing Menulog's modern award application
This paper examines the modern award application made in April 2021 by Menulog Pty Ltd., an app-based food-delivery platform, and charters the subsequent process which was handled by the Fair Work Commission, Australia's main industrial relations tribunal. This, ultimately unsuccessful, application for a new modern award was part of an organisational strategy that would have seen Menulog treat its delivery workers as employees rather than contrac…
Woeful Pay, But Still, I Enjoy It’: Refining Subjective Job Quality in Ride‐Share Work
Workers who experience structural barriers in the labour market are overrepresented in the gig economy. There is limited research on how the broader context of labour markets and welfare systems shapes workers' motivations for, and subjective understandings of, ride‐share work. Using established concepts of ‘constrained agency’, ‘labour market objectives’ and ‘life stories’ from labour geography, this study develops a conceptual framework to adva…
Economics (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)