Dr Anita Hammer
Reader in International Work and Employment
Research interests
- Human Resource Management
Biography
Anita's research is comparative, international and interdisciplinary. She examines work and employment in the Global South, particularly India, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East. Her recent research explores how digital technology, migration, and the climate crisis are shaping and reshaping work, precarity and social struggles. Anita works with grassroots organisations in Bihar, India, on digital skills initiatives designed to digitally empower informal workers, especially marginalised groups – ‘Building equality through technology’.
Anita enjoys doctoral supervision and has supervised and examined doctoral theses in the following areas of interest:
- Digital and migrant labour
- Climate change, ‘Just Transition’ and sustainable future of work
- Political economy of work and inequalities
- Politics of Development: MNCs and Multilateral Organisations
Her recent books include Global Rupture: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South (Brill, 2023) and The Political Economy of Work in the Global South: Reflections on Labour Process Theory (Bloomsbury, 2020). Anita serves on the editorial Boards of Work in the Global Economy (UK), Journal of Labor and Society (USA), and Journal of Industrial Relations (Australia).
Dr Anita Hammer is currently accepting new PhD students.
Research
Centre for Sustainable Business
Business, society and environment in the pursuit of a sustainable future
Critical Global Capitalism Studies Collective
A collective bringing critical global capitalism research, teaching and activism at King's together under one umbrella to provide a forum for collaborations, events, and discussions, and to forge connections with the media, the policy world, and other like-minded groups.
Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group
We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.
Climate, Environment, and Power research group
This group focuses on the critical study of the processes that drive and link social and ecological change in the contemporary world, with special attention to the climate crisis and its multiple social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions.
News
Digital skills project in rural India shows training works best when it leads to sustainable livelihoods
A King’s Business School collaboration with Saral Services in Bihar is helping young people turn digital training into income, confidence and routes into...
Events
Human Resource Management & Organisational Analysis MSc - Offer Holder Webinar - 9 Jun 2026
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Research
Centre for Sustainable Business
Business, society and environment in the pursuit of a sustainable future
Critical Global Capitalism Studies Collective
A collective bringing critical global capitalism research, teaching and activism at King's together under one umbrella to provide a forum for collaborations, events, and discussions, and to forge connections with the media, the policy world, and other like-minded groups.
Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group
We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.
Climate, Environment, and Power research group
This group focuses on the critical study of the processes that drive and link social and ecological change in the contemporary world, with special attention to the climate crisis and its multiple social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions.
News
Digital skills project in rural India shows training works best when it leads to sustainable livelihoods
A King’s Business School collaboration with Saral Services in Bihar is helping young people turn digital training into income, confidence and routes into...
Events
Human Resource Management & Organisational Analysis MSc - Offer Holder Webinar - 9 Jun 2026
Join your exclusive offer holder event to learn more about the course.
Please note: this event has passed.
Human Resource Management and Organisational Analysis - Information Session
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