Matthew Cole

Profile

Kind: person Country: United Kingdom Roles:

• former Director
• former Secretary

Notes

US national. Founding secretary+director 2017-07-28, resigned 2017-09-22 — left within ~2 months. Worth chasing why.

Also known as

• Matthew Benjamin Cole
• Matthew B. Cole
• Matt Cole
• Matthew L. Cole
• Matthew T. Cole

Connections

• Nick Srnicek — other: Matt Cole and Nick Srnicek have multiple documented connections. First, Nick Srnicek acknowledged Matt Cole as a peer reviewer of an academic chapter: ‘My thanks to Matt Cole, Julieta Haidar, Maarten…

• The Autonomy Institute — governance

• Alex Charilaou — other: No connection between Alex Charilaou and Matthew Cole can be established from the source material. The source document is a large bibliography of academic works. The name ‘Charilaou’ appears once in…

• Helen Hester — other: Helen Hester and Matthew Benjamin Cole appeared together as speakers at a UNISON Southampton District event (published 2018-03-09), where Matt Cole spoke on ‘Automation and the Future of Work’ and…

• India Burgess — other: Both India Burgess and Matt Cole appear as signatories on the same open letter addressed to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, advocating for small business protections and affordable rents. The letter…

• Rosa Luxemburg Foundation — other: The source material connects Matthew Cole and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung only indirectly. Matthew Cole is listed as a contributor (email: matthew.cole@oii.ox.ac.uk) to a paper on COVID-19 and the…

• Sean Greaves — other: Matthew Cole and Sean Greaves both appear in a UK telephone directory listing for the Selby, North Yorkshire, YO8 area. Both are listed as residing in Selby. The source provides no further detail…

• Grace Blakeley — other: Grace Blakeley provided a blurb endorsing Matthew Cole’s book ‘Unpaid: The Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft’ (Verso, forthcoming May 2026). Her endorsement reads: ‘An absolutely essential guide…

• Kyle Lewis × The Autonomy Institute × Will Stronge — governance

• James Meadway — other: James Meadway and Matthew Cole are both cited as sources in the same episode of the Belabored podcast (episode 251, on British train strikes and related labor topics). James Meadway is cited for his…

• Phil Jones — other: Matt Cole and Phil Jones both appeared as representatives of their respective institutions at the May 3-4, 2006 Board of Regents meeting in Iowa. Matt Cole is listed under the University of Northern…

• Will Stronge — other: Matt Cole and Will Stronge are co-series editors of the Zed book series ‘Autonomy and Automation: Work in the 21st Century’. The call for proposals lists them together as series editors: ‘Matt Cole –…

• Maria Dada — other: Maria Dada and Matthew Cole both appear as signatories on the open letter ‘No return to Business as Usual: Time for a New Future for Higher Education’. Maria Dada is listed as ‘Early Career…