Dr Callum Cant
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Email
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Location
EBS.3.12, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
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.
Appointments
Other academic
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (1/10/2021 - 24/11/2023)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Work, Crisis, Technology
Our current moment is fundamentally defined by an ongoing systemic destabilisation. I am interested in understanding this process from the workers' point of view, and understanding of it is changing workers' day to day experiences.
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Business and International Development (BE422)
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International Management (BE489)
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Professional and Academic Development (Management and Marketing) (BE909)
Publications
Journal articles (8)
Muldoon, J., Cant, C., Wu, B. and Graham, M., (2024). A Typology of AI Data Work. Big Data and Society. 11 (1)
Muldoon, J., Cant, C., Graham, M. and Ustek, F., (2023). The Poverty of Ethical AI: Impact Sourcing and AI Supply Chains. AI and Society: the journal of human-centered systems and machine intelligence
Alyanak, O., Cant, C., López Ayala, T., Badger, A. and Graham, M., (2023). Platform work, exploitation, and migrant worker resistance: Evidence from Berlin and London. The Economic and Labour Relations Review. 34 (4), 667-688
Woodcock, J. and Cant, C., (2022). Platform Worker Organising at Deliveroo in the UK: From Wildcat Strikes to Building Power. Journal of Labor and Society. 25 (2), 220-236
Cole, M., Cant, C., Ustek Spilda, F. and Graham, M., (2022). Politics by Automatic Means? A Critique of Artificial Intelligence Ethics at Work. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 5
Englert, S., Woodcock, J. and Cant, C., (2020). Digital Workerism: Technology, Platforms, and the Circulation of Workers’ Struggles. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 18 (1), 132-145
Cant, C. and Mogno, C., (2020). Platform Workers of the World, Unite! The Emergence of the Transnational Federation of Couriers. South Atlantic Quarterly. 119 (2), 401-411
Cant, C. and Woodcock, J., (2020). Fast Food Shutdown: From disorganisation to action in the service sector. Capital and Class. 44 (4), 513-521
Books (2)
Muldoon, J., Graham, M. and Cant, C., (2024). Feeding the Machine The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI. Canongate Books. 1837261822. 9781837261826
Cant, C., (2019). Riding for Deliveroo Resistance in the New Economy. Polity. 1509535519. 9781509535514
Book chapters (1)
Cant, C. and Woodcock, J., (2021). The cycle of struggle: Food platform strikes in the UK 2016-18. In: The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence. 256- 268
