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Enda Brophy is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, where he researches and teaches at the intersection of political economy, labour, and social change in communication industries.
Education & Training:
While his formal degrees are not explicitly listed, Brophy’s extensive translation work of foundational Italian autonomist texts and his co-editorship of critical academic volumes signal advanced training in critical theory, labour studies, and communication research.
Research Interests:
- Political economy of communication and digital media
- Labour and collective organising in media, cultural and creative industries
- Call-centre work and global outsourcing
- Platform labour and gig-economy dynamics
- Autonomist Marxist theory and worker inquiry
- Digital debt, financialisation, and resistance
- Student movements and university governance
- Precarious employment and creative labour
Analysing his recent publications (2015-2020) reveals a consistent focus on the transformation of labour processes under communicative capitalism: from call-centre scripting and surveillance to food-delivery platform work during COVID-19, and from unpaid internships in creative industries to emergent forms of tech-worker organising using digital tools. These works collectively map how digital infrastructures mediate, discipline, and occasionally enable new solidarities among precarious workers.
Awards & Recognition:
- 2018 Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies Book of the Year Award for Language Put to Work
- 2018 Canadian Communication Association Gertrude J. Robinson Book of the Year Award for Language Put to Work
- Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC Academic of the Year Award
Research Grants & Collaborative Projects:
He co-leads Cultural Workers Organize, a multi-investigator SSHRC-funded project with Greig de Peuter, Nicole Cohen, Kate Oakley and Marisol Sandoval, investigating collective responses to precarity among cultural and creative workers in Canada and the UK. Editorial board memberships at Studies in Political Economy, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, and tripleC further anchor his scholarly leadership.
Graduate Supervision & Teaching:
Brophy currently teaches CMNS 130 Communication and Social Change and actively supervises MA and PhD students working on labour, social movements, and digital media. He is formally associated with SFU’s Labour Studies Program as an Associate.
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