Julie MacLeavy is a Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Bristol, UK specialising in feminist political economy, economic transformations and new forms of work. She is the Theme Lead for the 'Innovation, Transition, Change' challenge within the new Academic Research Hub for the Prevention of Gambling Harms at the University of Bristol, co-Editor-in-Chief of Geoforum and Treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Economic Geography Research Group. Julie is the co-editor of The Handbook of Neoliberalism (Routledge) and author of Enduring Austerity: The Uneven Geographies of the Post-Welfare State (University of Bristol Press), which examines how austerity policies create an uneven landscape of work and welfare opportunities across different communities.

Frederick Harry Pitts is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter's Cornwall Campus in his hometown of Penryn, where he is also the Director of Business Engagement and Innovation for Humanities and Social Sciences. He is a Co-Investigator of the Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Sociodigital Futures, a Fellow of the Institute for the Future of Work, Secretary of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol Business School. He is the author or coauthor of five previous books, most recently Marx in Management and Organisation Studies: Rethinking Value, Labour and Class Struggles (Routledge).