Elizabeth Humphrys is a political economist specialising in labour and work, and the Head of Discipline of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. She researches the impact of economic crisis and climate change on workers.

Elizabeth takes a multidisciplinary approach, also drawing on sociology and history, to seek ways to make work safer and more equitable. Her recent projects have investigated: climate change and workers’ health and safety; the impact of neoliberalism on labour; experiences of disabled professional workers; and the 1970 West Gate Bridge disaster.

Elizabeth’s first book, How Labour Built Neoliberalism, was described in the Sydney Review of Books as a ‘tremendously important’ contribution to understanding economic change in Australia’s recent past. She is an Editor of the journal Social Movement Studies, and an Associate Editor of Economic & Labour Relations Review.