Benjamin Anderson, PhD

Benjamin Anderson, PhDBenjamin Anderson, PhDBenjamin Anderson, PhD

Benjamin Anderson, PhD

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Selected Publications

Articles

Anderson, B. and J. Jenkinson. (2023). Building Autonomous Power: Worker Centres and 

Solidarity Networks in Precarious Times. Global Labour Journal, 14(3). Available at https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/5328


Anderson, B. 2021. The Forgotten Labour of Craft: Exploitation and Organizing in Artisanal Industries. Labour: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies/Le Travail: revue d’Études Ouvrières Canadiennes, 88: 53-76. Available at https://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/article/view/6119


Anderson, B. 2017. Project or Program: Prefigurative Politics, Folk Politics, and the Struggle for 

Change. Unmediated: Journal of Politics and Communication, 1 (1): 90-93. Available at https://summit.sfu.ca/item/18340

Chapters

Haiven, M., Brophy, E. and Anderson, B. 2022. Against Debt’s Digital Empire: Exploring the 

Connections between Race, Technology, and Global Technology Regimes. In Compton, N., 

Dyer-Witheford, N., Grzyb, A. and Hearn, A. (Eds.) Organizing Equality: Dispatches from a Global Struggle. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Pgs. 99-125.


Anderson, B. 2018. Opportunity in Crisis: Alternative Media and Subaltern Resistance. In 

Geelan, Walsh, and Gonzalez Hernando (Eds.) From financial crisis to social change: Towards 

alternative horizons. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Available at https://summit.sfu.ca/item/18401

Reviews

Anderson, B. 2019. Refining Creative Labour: Precarity and Autonomy in Cultural and Craft Industries. Labour: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies/Le Travail: revue d’Études Ouvrières Canadiennes, 84: 325-331. Available at https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/article/738416


Anderson, B. 2018. Review of: Cohen, N “Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital 

Age.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 38.

Other Publications

Anderson, B., Brophy, E. and Haiven, M. 2022. Introduction: Zero Credit. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 45. Available at https://utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/topia-45-001


Haiven, M., Brophy, E., and Anderson, B. 2019. Art, research and action against debt’s digital empire: An introduction. Public Seminar. Available at https://publicseminar.org/2019/04/art-research-and-action-against-debts-digital-empire/


Anderson, B. 2020. “Beers and fries, please don’t unionize!”: Your favourite local haunt is anti-worker. The Mainlander. Available at https://themainlander.com/2020/07/30/beers-and-fries/

Recordings

Anderson, B. 2023. Aspirational Labour in the Digital Craft Economy. Presented at New Voices in Labour Studies, Global Labour Research Centre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RapAY_Frx-k&t=2978s


Anderson, B. 2021. Craft Workers Organize: The Movement of Precarious Workers in Artisanal Industries. Presented at SFU Innovations in Research Symposium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1fqVfmY2N8


Anderson, B. 2021. “We Bring the Edge”: Style, Valorization and Identity in Artisanal Labour. Presented at New Voices in Labour Studies, Global Labour Research Centre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMePyShYmPY


Anderson, B. 2020. The Forgotten Labour of Craft: Exploitation and Organizing in Artisanal Industries. Presented at New Voices in Labour Studies, Global Labour Research Centre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAm1Chv9pto&t=2s

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