Alex Hoffman is a DPhil student in Social Policy at the University of Oxford. His research examines how new collective bargaining arrangements for platform workers and independent contractors take shape, and whether they build genuine worker power or function as ceilings that limit future improvements.
His MPhil thesis traced the diffusion and variation of independent contractor sectoral bargaining, a novel program across California, Massachusetts, and Washington State — the first systematic account of a policy model lauded as a potential solution to the secular decline of the American union density.
Before Oxford, Hoffman worked on climate and social policy in Berlin. He holds a BA from Duke University.
