Dr Harry Pitts, Author at Progressive Britain

Dr Harry Pitts

Frederick Harry Pitts is Associate Professor in Political Economy & the Future of Work at the University of Exeter, Cornwall, where he is a Co-Investigator of the Critical Minerals Challenge Centre. He leads Progressive Britain's project on UK/EU industrial strategy reporting later this year.

Blog

The Chancellor sees Critical Minerals are a case study in Securonomics

Wounded by globalisation at the end of a long and protracted period of industrial decline, in 1998 South Crofty was the last working tin mine in Cornwall to close. Overnight before closure, the outer wall of the site was daubed with white paint spelling out the words to a Cornish

Dr Harry Pitts 30/07/2025

Publication

Putting Industrial Policy in its Place

Securonomics and Reindustrialisation Between Defence, Digital and Decarbonisation In the UK and across Europe people who feel that they and their communities have been left out of security and prosperity are biting back at the ballot box. A string of far right successes on the continent and now the rise

Dr Harry Pitts 05/06/2025