Enda Brophy

Associate Professor | Graduate Chair

T: 778-782-8085
E: ebrophy@sfu.ca
Room: HC3559

Currently Teaching

Courses

Spring 2024

This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.

publications

Books

Brophy, Enda (2017) Language Put to Work: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce. London: Palgrave.
(Winner of the 2018 Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies' book of the year award and the 2018 Canadian Communication Association’s Gertrude J. Robinson book of the year award.)

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Other Publications

Brophy, Enda, and CMNS 440 (2020). "Food Delivery Platform Work and the COVID-19 Outbreak, in the Metro Vancouver Regional District."
Brophy, Enda, and Seamus Bright Grayer. (submitted). "Platform Organizing: Tech Worker Mobilization and Digital Tools for Labour Recomposition," in The Gig Economy: Workers and Platforms, edited by Todd Wolfson, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, and Brian Dolber.
Brophy, Enda, and Elizabeth Sarjeant (forthcoming) “‘Autonomy Among Us’”: An Interview with Quebec Student Strike Organizers. Viewpoint Magazine.
Brophy, Enda, and Seamus Bright Grayer. (2019). "Platform Organizing: Digital Tools for Worker Communication." Notes From Below, June 10.
Haiven, Max, Enda Brophy, and Benjamin Anderson (2019) “Art, Research and Action Against Debt’s Digital Empire: An Introduction” Public Seminar, April 4, 2019.
Haiven, Max, Enda Brophy, and Benjamin Anderson (eds, 2019) “Digital/Debt/Empire” Public Seminar, April 4, 2019.
Brophy, Enda (2019) "Language Put to Work: Cognitive Capitalism, Call Centre Labour, and Worker Inquiry," in Critical Communication Research: Western Perspectives, edited by Jin Cao and Vincent Mosco. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.
Woodcock, Jamie, and Enda Brophy (eds, 2019). "The Call Centre Seen from Below" Notes from Below 4.3. February 14.
Woodcock, Jamie, and Enda Brophy. (in progress). "The Call Centre Seen From Below: An Introduction to the Issue on Call Centres," Notes From Below 4.3. February 14.
Brophy, Enda (2017) “Giù la Maschera,” (“Removing the Mask”) Preface to Francesco Maria Pezzulli (ed) Il Prezzo di un Sorriso: Vita, Linguaggi e Sfruttamento nei Call Center (“The Price of a Smile: Life, Language, and Exploitation in the Call Centre” (Quaderni di Sudcomune 1): 1-4.
Brophy, Enda, and Mosco, Vincent (2016) “Profit and Power: British Marxists on the Political Economy of the Media,” in British Marxism and Cultural Studies: Essays on a Living Tradition, edited by David Berry and Philip Bounds. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
de Peuter, Greig, Nicole S. Cohen, and Enda Brophy, eds. (2015) Special issue: “Interrogating Internships: Unpaid Work, Creative Industries, and Higher Education.” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 13(2): 329-602.
de Peuter, Greig, Nicole Cohen, and Enda Brophy (2015) "Introduction" tripleC 13(2): 329-335.
Brophy, Enda, Nicole Cohen and Greig de Peuter (2015) "Labor Messaging: Autonomous Communication in Creative Industries," The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media, edited by Richard Maxwell. London: Routledge: 315-326.
Brophy, Enda (2015) “Revisiting the Digital Assembly Line: New Perspectives on Call Centre Work,” Labour/Le Travail: 211-230.
Brophy, Enda (2015) "Materializing Immaterial Labour," Due to Injuries, edited by Jamie Hilder and Brady Cranfield. Vancouver: 221A and Publication Studio: 53-63.
Brophy, Enda, and de Peuter, Greig (2014) "Labours of Mobility: Communicative Capitalism and the Smartphone Cybertariat," Materialities and Imaginaries of the Mobile Internet, edited by T. Swiss, J. Hadlaw, and A Herman. New York: Routledge: 60-84.
Brophy, Enda. 2014. Review of Lüthje, Boy, Stefanie Hürtgen, Peter Pawliki and Martina Sproll (2013)From Silicon Valley to Shenzen: Global Production and Work in the IT Industry, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation: 104-106.
de Peuter, Greig, Enda Brophy and Nicole Cohen (2014) “Locating Labour in Mobile Media Studies” in The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media, edited by Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth: 439-449.
Brophy, Enda (2014) Review of Mirchandani, Kiran (2012) Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy, Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal 46(1): 225-227.
Brophy, Enda (2013) “Labouring to Learn: Lineaments of the Creative-Academic Complex in Vancouver,” Line “About Academia” special issue, edited by Sabine Bitter and Antoni Muntadas: 106-111.
Cultural Workers Organize (2013) “‘Messages of Rupture’: An Interview with Emanuele Braga on the MACAO Occupation in Milan.” Scapegoat: Landscape, Architecture, Political Economy 04, 179-187.
Brophy, Enda, and Tucker-Abramson, Myka (2012) “Struggling Universities: Simon Fraser University and the Crisis of Canadian Public Education” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (special issue “Out of the Ruins: The University to Come”) 28, Fall: 21-40.
Cohen, Nicole, de Peuter, Greig, and Brophy, Enda (2012) “Interns, Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose–Literally.” Briarpatch, November/December, Volume 41 No. 6: 9-12. (Winner of the 2012 Canadian Association of Journalists award for outstanding investigative journalism in Canada, Labour Reporting category).
Brophy, E. (2012) “Québec 2012: Lampi del Comune,” UniNomade 2.0. November 30th.
Brophy, E. (2012) “The Combustible Campus,” Briarpatch. September/October, Volume 41 No. 5: 40.
Brophy, E. (2011) “Language Put to Work: Cognitive Capitalism, Call Centre Labour, and Worker Inquiry.” Journal of Communication Inquiry, 35(4): 411-417.
Brophy, E., and Tucker-Abramson, M. (2011) “From Utopian Institution to Global University: Simon Fraser University and Crisis of Canadian Public Education,” edu-factory web-journal 1: 6-21.
Brophy, E. (2011) “Cognitive Capitalism and the University,” in Roggero, G. The Production of Living Knowledge: Crisis of the University and Transformation of Labor in Europe and North America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Brophy, E. (2010) “The Subterranean Stream: Communicative Capitalism and Call Centre Labour.”Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 10(4): 470-483.
Brophy, E. (2009) “Resisting Call Centre Work: The Aliant Strike and Convergent Unionism in Canada.”Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 3(1): 80-99.

Translations

Ciccarelli, Roberto (2015) "Expo Milano 2015: The Institutionalization of Working for Free in Italy" (with Roberta Buiani) tripleC 13(2): 423-427.
Roggero, Gigi (2011) The Production of Living Knowledge: Crisis of the University and Transformation of Labor in Europe and North America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Dalla Costa, Giovanna Franca (2008) The Work of Love: Unpaid Housework, Poverty and Sexual Violence at the Dawn of the 21^st Century. New York: Autonomedia.
Dalla Costa, Mariarosa (1998) “Introduction.” In Dalla Costa, Giovanna Franca. 2008. The Work of Love: Unpaid Housework, Poverty and Sexual Violence at the Dawn of the 21^st Century. New York: Autonomedia: 11-32.
Dalla Costa, Mariarosa (2007) “Two Baskets for Change.” The Commoner. 12. URL: http://www.commoner.org.uk/12dallacosta1.pdf
Dalla Costa, Mariarosa. 2007 “Re-Ruralizing the World” The Commoner, 12. URL: http://www.commoner.org.uk/12dallacosta1.pdf
Borio, Guido et al. 2007. “Conricerca as Political Action” in Utopian Pedagogy: Confronting Neoliberalism in the Age of Globalization, edited by M. Coté, R. Day and G. de Peuter, 163-158. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Berardi, Franco. 2007. “From the Organic Intellectual to the Formation of the Cognitariat” in Utopian Pedagogy: Confronting Neoliberalism in the Age of Globalization, edited by M. Coté, R. Day and G. de Peuter, 133-144. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Brophy, E. et al. 2007. “Women’s Autonomy and the Labour of Reproduction: An Interview with Mariarosa Dalla Costa.” in Utopian Pedagogy: Confronting Neoliberalism in the Age of Globalization, edited by M. Coté, R. Day and G. de Peuter, 145-162. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

research

Enda Brophy’s areas of research interest and graduate supervision are the political economy of communication; communication and social change; labour and collective organizing in the media and communication industries; autonomist marxism; digital and communicative dimensions of debt; and call centres. His first book, Language Put to Work: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce, won the 2018 Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies' book of the year award and the 2018 Canadian Communication Association’s Gertrude J. Robinson book of the year award. With Greig de Peuter, Nicole Cohen, Kate Oakley and Marisol Sandoval he collaborates on Cultural Workers Organize, a research project exploring collective responses to precarious employment by workers in cultural and creative industries. He has translated numerous works by Italian scholars, including Gigi Roggero’s The Production of Living Knowledge: Crisis of the University and Transformation of Labor in Europe and North America and Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa’s The Work of Love: Unpaid Housework, Poverty and Sexual Violence at the Dawn of the 21st Century. He is an Associate in the Labour Studies Program at SFU, and an editorial board member of the journals Studies in Political Economy, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, and tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique.

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Enda Brophy

Associate Professor | Graduate Chair

Courses

Spring 2024

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