David Peetz is the Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and professor emeritus of employment relations at Griffith University. He is a co-researcher at the Inter-university Centre for Research on Globalisation and Work, Montreal, is on the board of the Union Education Foundation, and was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the City University of New York. He has a PhD from the University of NSW and Bachelor of Economics from Sydney University, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

He was once a manager in the Senior Executive Service of the Australian Government’s Department of Industrial Relations, prepared 2 reports to the Queensland Parliament on workers compensation, has given evidence to several federal parliamentary committees, and has undertaken work for unions, employers, the International Labor Organisation, the OECD and governments of both political persuasions in and outside of Australia. His books include Brave New Workplace; Women of the Coal Rushes; Unions in a Contrary World; Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation; and The Realities and Futures of Work. Other recent publications have been on self-employment and the gig economy, productivity, wages and policy, road transport regulation, employee voice, and intimidation of scientists.