🚨The latest issue of RC44's newsletter (July 2025) is out now, including announcements about the recent 5th ISA Forum of #Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, great new publications, and a major new job opportunity for #labour researchers in Hong Kong - check it out!!👀✊

Very happy to see this out & about in the real world - thanks to @laurenkatekelly.bsky.social & Chris O'Neill for co-editing... checkout all the articles from our special issue here: www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu...

Very happy to see this one published with dream team collaborators @blueskychris.bsky.social @thaophan.bsky.social @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social and @jathansadowski.com

A big shout out to @drtombarnes.bsky.social for leading this work and taking up the lion's share of labour required of a Special Issue. Thanks comrade.

Our Special Issue of WOLG has been published--New Worlds of Logistical Labour: Space, places, technologies, workers A big thank you to our incredible contributors and co-editors @drtombarnes.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social for making this happen 🎉 www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

The June newsletter of RC44 is out now, including important news about the 5th ISA Forum of #Sociology which starts on Sunday in Rabat, Morocco, incl. one from Global Sociologists for Palestine (GS4P) regarding solidarity at the Forum with the Palestinian people #freePalestine

The May 2025 issue of RC44’s Monthly Newsletter is out now, including important calls about the forthcoming 5th ISA Forum of #Sociology in Morocco, as well as calls to support our flagship publication, Global #Labour Journal (including a call for junior editors to join the editorial board)🙂✊

The Global Labour Journal, the official journal of @labourrc44.bsky.social and @glu-network.bsky.social, has launched a petition demaning its inclusion in the World of Science main catalogue. Please spread the word and sign! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter: The ANU executive is planning a new round of unnecessary and damaging cuts and forced redundancies. We are asking staff to sign this open letter calling on the executive to cancel planned CMPs and to be transparent about ANU’s finances. ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.

Useful by @1RossGittins on #productivity and real #wages… & of course the problem is that the latter has completely collapsed over the past 3 years #Economics www.smh.com.au/business/the...

Following the Aus election, all this talk about civility is such bollocks; severely underplays how much of Labor’s win was luck. Living standards having sunk, voters are scared that Trump will wreck world economy & make things worse again. That fear’s what smashed Dutton not Labor being ‘kind’ FFS🤦‍♂️

🚨 🚨 Check out and share the new RC44 newsletter (March 2025 issue)!!✊😀 #labor #ISAforum25

Remember reading Ian Lowe’s Living in the Hothouse almost 20 years ago; among key predictions was that #globalwarming would shift the tropical cycle zone south to northern NSW within a few decades. Hope folks up there & in Qld will be okay🙏 #CycloneAlfred #ClimateCrisis

Please read & share the February 2025 issue of RC44's February newsletter, including our call for action regarding the exclusion of RC44’s flagship publication, Global Labour Journal, from journal rankings by the multinational corporation, Clarivate #labour #workers

Australia’s #RBA living in an alternative universe… which means more, completely unnecessary pain & uncertainty for workers & households www.smh.com.au/business/the... #reservebank #interestrates #auspol

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📣 Call for papers! ✨DISRUPTING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 📅 Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th June, 2025 📍 University of Leeds, UK ‼️ Abstract submission deadline: 7th March 2025 📧 Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via email to: [email protected] www.linkedin.com/posts/esme-t...

Are you going to the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco (6-11 July)? Did you know you can apply for a grant towards registration costs? If you're a labour researcher, you need to apply with RC44 before 31 January!! For more info, contact [email protected] #labour #unions #ISAForum25

Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...

We're recruiting Postdoctoral Visitor in AI & Governance, York University, Canada. Deadline 20 Dec 2024. More about role contained in the job ad: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... Working with myself, @tdagne.bsky.social & Rob Gehl #AIethics #AIgovernance #STS #techlaw www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...

Good work by @drtombarnes.bsky.social explaining what's behind the huge Woolies dispute. Includes AI's role & how a large warehouse was closed and replaced by one with fewer staff, lower (!) wages, greater work intensity and larger capacity. theconversation.com/the-dispute-...

The latest Labour Account figures show almost all of the increase in hours worked in the past year came from health, social assistance, education and public admin

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions has announced that it will begin an indefinite general strike tomorrow, demanding the immediate resignation of President Yoon Suk-yeol.

Behind the empty shelves at #Woolworths is a conflict with implications for the #futureofwork, #technology & workers’ rights - my latest for The Conversation on the ongoing #strikes around Australia - theconversation.com/the-dispute-...

Stopping a return to #autocracy in #SouthKorea is important to all who support #democracy, but esp. to #labour activists… #Unions were indispensable in smashing autocracy in the 1980s (reshaping global unionism in the process)… & they are front & centre again in fighting its unwelcome return

‼️Our department is looking for a 4-year postdoc: ideally someone interested in economic sociology experienced with quantitive methods. We offer: manageable teaching load, great time to develop research & a wonderful city. Please consider applying & share widely! ‼️ jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Woolworths workers picket distribution centre in Melbourne as industrial dispute continues www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

New @etui.bsky.social book, 'Experimenting for union renewal: challenges, illustrations and lessons' - Mélanie Laroche & Gregor Murray, eds. @kurtvandaele.bsky.social www.etui.org/publications...

🌟 Save the Date! 🌟 Our next HuLog Circle talk is on 18/12, 3PM-4.30PM (GMT) online. Martin Krzywdzinski will share insights from his recent publication, ‘Control and Flexibility: The Use of Wearable Devices in Capital- and Labor-Intensive Work Processes’ 🔗 Reserve your spot now: shorturl.at/pmsuE

Yep! Checked in my local Woolies today and lots of this. Solidarity to my fellow @unitedworkers.org.au members on strike

Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.

It’s clear today that lots of people need reminding that historically rent controls marked the beginning of a series of revolutionary changes which massively improved housing for most people in Scotland through state ownership and shrinking private renting into a small marginal sector.

How are companies using algorithm-based management and performance tracking, and how do couriers perceive them? What are the challenges for works councils and trade unions? Paper via Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society #wjds by P Wotschack, L Hellbach, F Butollo ➡️ doi.org/10.34669/wi....

The recommendations of the Hodgkinson report at the Uni of Sydney are full of draconian and silly stuff, but this one in particular is really going to stretch out lecture time

Haymarket regularly makes their books available for free. They do good work. I am totally in for supporting this and just donated.

why don't we just tie VC pay to staff morale?

"Many ex-industrial towns are now dominated by low-paid work, as behemoths like Amazon take advantage of financial incentives, patchy labour rights...economic structures of these areas are marked by cutting-edge innovations in exploitation and financialisation" www.common-wealth.org/publications...

Hi everyone - I set up a 'Part 2', building it out with those who wanted to be added. Please suggest more names or yourself: go.bsky.app/6t5fHp4

America gets a lot of its imported cars from Mexico and Canada

@nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social on the outlook for the UAW's next chapter in organizing the South. (open access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A small starter pack for anyone interested in digital/platform capitalism, with a focus on social sciences (sociology geography, STS, econ etc.). Let me know if you want to be added!

This month marks the final, definitive closure of the Garland Shirt Factory. If you're interested in American manufacturing, I want tell you its story. 🧵

I set up a ‘labor research and policy’ starter pack. It’s almost at the 150 person capacity… but let me know if I should add you to a ‘part 2’ list… go.bsky.app/55FK3m7

It’s a special feeling to see a book based on a dissertation I directed. It’s particularly relevant after this election. @lawcha.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Even one of Musk’s handpicked biographers wrote that #Tesla would never have survived without massive govt bailouts following the #GFC… hard to find a single capitalist who expresses a bigger contradiction between ‘free market’ rhetoric & an utterly state-dependent reality

In the last decade, we've seen a monumental rise in app-based work, like Uber, DoorDash, Instacart etc. This type of work is otherwise known as "gig work" and it's time for policymakers to take a closer look at the implications of this type of work on workers' rights and overall equity.

Are you writing a book about political economy/progressive policies/other things @rooseveltinstitute.bsky.social might find interesting? Do you have a book contract w/ a publisher? DO YOU LIKE MONEY? If so consider applying to our (virtual) Author in Residency! (1/x) form.jotform.com/CampusNetwor...

Hundreds of Woolworths staff have walked off the job indefinitely at distribution centres in Victoria and New South Wales, demanding better pay and working conditions. 

Hi Bluesky friends: I wanted to share that my book, THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US, is coming out in March. Based on a half-decade of reporting, it examines the rise of America's "working homeless," following five Atlanta families desperate to secure housing in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city.