Inequalities, ill-being and violence
Violence is historically and currently ingrained in organisations through processes of authority and power and formulated through structures of control. Therefore, it is vital to develop an understanding of violence as embedded in its context and history, often involving the very institutions mandated to protect those most likely to be harmed.
Our research on violence and inequalities spans the continuum from direct to structural forms of harm. We examine how violence is enacted, by whom, in what forms, and how longstanding, systemic, and structural violence deprives individuals and communities of basic rights, equity, and equality.
Using deeply contextual, practice‑engaged qualitative methods, we unpack the implications of violence in particular epistemic violence, including organisational responses to domestic violence. Our research explores how these experiences shape the lives of women and others. This includes attention to the everyday realities of fear, harm, and illbeing that accompany exposure to violence.
We explore new political ontological and epistemic positionalities from which we challenge systems of violence that disproportionately impact those who are economically, politically and geographically disenfranchised in the context of rising inequalities, war, famine, and climate change, and hinder the development and freedoms of marginalised people in the workplace and beyond.
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Our partners
Our team collaborates with a diverse range of organisations including Trade Union federations, and grassroots-level organisations such as the National Labour Federation in Bangladesh.
Featured publications
- Alamgir, F., & Riach, K. (2025). Towards recognition and redistribution: Solidaric demands and subaltern subjectivities in Bangladeshi jute mills. Organization, 46(2), 275-292.
- Chrispal, S. (2025). Reducing epistemic violence in the pursuit of organization studies through reflective praxis: Some reflections. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 93, 105–118.
- Kauzlarich, L., & Greenwood, M. (2025). Work-related intimate partner violence (WIPV): A systematic review and feminist conceptual analysis. Human Resource Management, 64(2), 269–287.
- Alamgir, F., Alamgir, F., & Irina Alamgir, F. (2022). Live or be left to die? Deregulated bodies and the global production network: Expendable workers of the Bangladeshi apparel industry in the time of Covid. Organization, 29(3), 478-501.
- Bapuji, H., Chrispal, S., Attri, P. S., Ertug, G., & Soundararajan, V. (2024). An integrative review of management research on caste: broadening our horizons. Academy of Management Annals, 18(2), 506–549.
- Baker, D.T. and Bourke, J. (2022). How is confidence weaponized against women?, Harvard Business Review.
- Lindebaum, D., den Hond, F., Greenwood, M., Chamberlain, J. A., & Andersson, L. (2022). Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose? Human Relations, 75(10), 1853–1874.
- Chrispal, S., Bapuji, H., & Zietsma, C. (2021). Caste and organization studies: our silence makes us complicit. Organization Studies, 42(9), 1501–1515.
- Wilcox T., Greenwood M., Pullen A., Jones D., O’Leary Kelly A. (2021). Interfaces of domestic violence and organization: Gendered violence and inequality. Gender Work and Organisation, 28:2, 701-721.
- Bapuji, H., & Chrispal, S. (2020). Understanding economic inequality through the lens of caste. Journal of Business Ethics, 162(3), 533–551.
Ongoing projects
- Health and Safety for Healthcare Workers in Victoria: This project’s aim is to build an evidence base of the prevalence and nature of work-related violence and work-related gendered violence experienced by healthcare workers in Victoria. Project members: Helen De Cieri, Tracey Shea, Ross Donohue, Brian Cooper, Michelle Greenwood, Barbara Dalton.
- Stepping into leadership: Understanding the career mobility and leadership practices of women and men in precarious occupations in Australia. The project was undertaken by Darren Thomas Baker.