Peter Fleming – The Conversation

Uber’s loss of its licence to operate in London signals uberisation is not an unstoppable force. Job insecurity, though, is on the march. Will Oliver/EPA

November 27, 2019

Uber might not take over the world, but it is still normalising job insecurity

Peter Fleming, University of Technology Sydney; Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney, and Kyoung-Hee Yu, University of Technology Sydney

We need to see uberisation in the context of all forms of precarious and insecure work becoming more acceptable.

Putting people first is the kind of thing you promise when you are trying to ward off calls to make you pay more tax. JULIAN SMITH/AAP

August 27, 2019

Lachlan Murdoch and scores of other business chiefs want to put people before profits? Really?

Peter Fleming, University of Technology Sydney

181 business leaders say they’ve changed tack. From now on they’ll look after “stakeholders” as well as shareholders, but it’s not clear they mean it.

Sugar baby websites exemplify a wider trend of casualisation in working relationships. Shutterstock

January 14, 2019

Sugar daddy capitalism: even the world’s oldest profession is being uberised

Peter Fleming, University of Technology Sydney

Sugar daddy capitalism is deformalising relationships and erasing the lines between commercial and non-commercial worlds.

The gulf between what Domino’s CEO Don Meij earned in 2017, A$36.8 million, and those who deliver the pizzas is extraordinary, so is the CEO worth that much? Paul Miller/AAP

July 24, 2018

CEO pay is more about white male entitlement than value for money

Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney and Peter Fleming, University of Technology Sydney

The evidence suggests the impact of CEOs on company performance isn’t enough to justify their sky-high pay, which is really based more on a culture of power and privilege.

Contact Peter for