Assistant Prof in Economic Sociology @camsociology. Researching and teaching digital technology, work and capitalism. Book 'Despotism On Demand'
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Will share with my students tomorrow. In his last book Tim Minshall has an illuminating analysis of how digitalization has changed production but nothing on work relations specifically. This is a great complement
New 'Sociology' article: 'Contesting Algorithmic Workplace Regimes in an Era of Flexible Despotism' journals.sagepub.com/doi/epu…
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Trending in #Economics:
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1) Coordinating sellers’ inflation (@SCEDjournal)
2) Manufacturing Revolutions: S. Korea (@QJEHarvard)
3) Optimal cover crop adoption
4) ‘Gig Economy’ & Job Quality in Platform Work
5) Promoting Electric Vehicles (@JaereAere)
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6. And we set them up globally.
From recent work by Umney et al. @digitcentre to @tom_swing and others', we attempt to situate Indian gig worker organising in a wider international conversation. There are patterns, but also crucial divergences.
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What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age?
Thrilled about this new open-access paper with @islandexpress in @compchange
Read: doi.org/10.1177/102452942513…
It's packed with ideas. A thread of it's key interventions:
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I am delighted to share my new article, ‘Misbehaving for Deliveroo. How couriers' digital manipulation boosts the platform's business’, in Organization, in which I introduce and discuss the concept of 'compliant misbehaviour' in platform work.
doi.org/10.1177/135050842513… – at Florence, Tuscany
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Less than a week left to apply for our conference on countervailing platform power at SNS in Florence!
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University professors in Gaza have issued a statement expressing their support for the protests in Gaza and the people’s right to express their opinions freely.
Now it’s time for university professors in the West to speak up—to stand with the people of Gaza in their protests.
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Remarkable piece both for its compelling academic biography and for what it reveals about the reach of Burawoy's global mentorship of important young scholars beyond his institution.
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Yet I wonder whether Braverman's ideas about the workplace have renewed strength due to the development of digital surveillance and work scheduling. The person to ask is Alex Wood!
'Michael was already midway through his fieldwork when Braverman’s (1974) Labour and Monopoly was published (Burawoy, 2005a). His seminal book, Manufacturing Consent (Burawoy, 1979), therefore, was not, as one might expect, an empirical response to Braverman. In fact, Michael found a radical disconnect between Braverman’s theory of worker disempowerment and the degradation of work and his own empirical findings that stressed autonomy, agency, shopfloor politics, and subjectivity.'
My obituary for Michael Burawoy has been published by @wgejournal @ilpcnews . I tried to provide both some insight into Michael as a person, his work and especially his politics.
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I have a paper out!
It's about how we tell supply chain histories. It's also about how software work came to be offshored. Check it out if you're interested in production networks, economic globalisation, computing history, or conjunctural analysis
academic.oup.com/joeg/advanc…
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New publication out as part of a special issue based on the third data justice conference focused on collectivity. Open access and available here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Ask yourself this:
If someone had told you this was an Israeli citizen, and you know you’d have felt outrage.
If knowing this is a Palestinian citizen, you do not feel outrage.
Ask yourself if you genuinely truly believe you are not a racist.
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The last but definitely not the least keynote speaker for #WORK2025fi conference is Emeritus Professor Steven Vallas (USA) with the title “Platform Capitalism Revisited: The Coming of Algorithmic Society.”
Submit your abstract by 20 February at work2025.fi!
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We will hear an interesting keynote speech from Associate Professor @bshestakofsky (USA) titled “Venture Capitalism and Beyond” on the second day of the #WORK2025fi conference!
Abstract submission is open until February 20th at work2025.fi!
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Looking for a 2-year postdoc to join our project AIDEMOCRACY, examining Big Tech influence on AI strategy. Deadline is 28th Feb: jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/post…
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Unimaginable destruction in Gaza: homes, schools, hospitals reduced to rubble.
Survivors tell me we have to bear witness.
And that we must do more: to protect them, to deliver lifesaving aid, to maintain the ceasefire, to help them rebuild.
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A terrible loss. Burawoy’s contributions to global labour studies were immense. And by all accounts, he was a dedicated teacher and wonderful human being.
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This will memoriam for Michael Burawoy will be posted on the UC Press website:
drive.google.com/file/d/1pos…