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Dr. Katy Fox-Hodess is a Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations and Research Development Director at the Centre for Decent Work, University of Sheffield Management School. She completed her PhD in Sociology at UC Berkeley and focuses on global labor dynamics, particularly in logistics and dockworker unions.
- Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield (2018–present)
- Research Development Director, Centre for Decent Work
- Chair-Elect, ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section (2024)
Her research interests center on trade unionism in the global economy, theoretical frameworks of worker power, and labor conditions in logistics. Current projects involve a global ethnography of the International Dockworkers Council, analyzing cross-regional labor strategies in Greece, Portugal, England, Chile, and Colombia.
Recent publications highlight comparative labor studies, structural power in unions, and international solidarity networks. Articles appear in Global Labour Journal, Work, Employment & Society, and British Journal of Industrial Relations.
Scientific awards include the Labor and Employment Relations Association's James G. Scoville Award (2018) and ASA's Distinguished Scholarly Article Award (2018).
She supervises doctoral researchers including Santiago Laguna Aldana (Amazon warehouses in South Yorkshire and California) and Joe Morris (warehouse labor regime in Sheffield). Former students include Shweta Sharma (decent work for women street vendors in Delhi) and Luke Neal (North Sea wind industry labor).
