A must read paper on how Big Tech uses start-ups from Spain and Brazil to advance their political interests 👇👇👇

Out now in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social “Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery” @journals.sagepub.com #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1/n

Workers Governing Technologies: Collective Strategies Across Contexts. In-person workshop in Toronto on Sep 25 and 26 with 20 speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Spain and US Registration link and full schedule: www.eventbrite.ca/e/workers-go...

A few things cooler than AI by Andy J. Pizza

"UC Berkeley’s Labor Center launches a new data tool, an inventory of union contracts, to empower labor in negotiating AI and emerging technologies. It provides crucial insights for unions to secure worker protections and shape the future of work." lngfrm.net/uc-berkeley-...

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4). 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

Good week to re-up this report by @ocampomar.bsky.social and @ips-dc.org: Following Massachusetts' Fair Share Amendment (tax on millionaires), did the millionaires leave en masse as they had threatened? No, the millionaires stayed -- and tax revenue increased! ips-dc.org/report-wealt...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

One more piece of (really) good evidence that AI domination of all that is well and good is not a fait accompli. Workers can fight back and decide how AI is governed. New work out by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @guiaoquadrado.bsky.social and André Campos Rocha: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In Montréal for SASE 2025 – or nearby? 🇨🇦 Join us Thursday, July 10 for free public sessions at the Palais des Congrès – no badge needed. Global scholars, union leaders & policymakers discuss labor, social economy & policy innovation. #SASE2025 #Montreal #PublicSessions

Read more about the first-ever content moderator global union alliance here: uniglobalunion.org/news/moderat...

Microsoft fired 6,000 Seattle locals this week so they can set more money on fire for AI and Semafor doesn't think that's worth mentioning despite running with this headline

‘U is for Union!’: Sesame Workshop Workers Win NLRB Election Organizing with the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 153, workers endured aggressive anti-union actions on the part of management in order to secure Thursday's win.

At Middlebury College, admin introduces deep budget cuts -- faculty vote (94%!) to walkout in protest ✊ Cuts include: 🔪 faculty/staff housing 🔪health insurance 🔪retirement (All while increasing undergraduate enrollment (i.e., speedup)) www.addisonindependent.com/2025/05/05/c...

Mass's Fair Share Amendment is one of the most successful policies I've seen in the recent past (it increases funding for child care, ed, health, transit by taxing millionaires) But more millionaires is still a huge policy failure www.boston.com/news/local-n...

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I guess I'm actually proud to be so bad at social media that I did this whole thread to promote my article but forgot to post a link. Anyway, the article is open access, and you can find it here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector Link to open access paper: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... cc @civictechallies.bsky.social @civictechguide.bsky.social

Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards, deadline June 1 2025. Welcoming submissions for monographs, graduate student papers and *social justice awards* which invite tech workers, labor organisers, activists, designers and others! @labortech.bsky.social labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards

To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class? This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy 1/n

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New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here we go: every single @thedigradio.bsky.social guest on Bluesky go.bsky.app/4T6xwZf

For SASE members who may be interested: MPIfG is accepting apps for its Visiting Researchers Program (Winter 2025/26). 2–12 mo stays in Cologne for researchers in econ soc & political econ. Apply by April 30 → sase.org/career-oppor... #AcademicJobs #SASE

Today, in Istanbul’s Maltepe district, over 2.2 million citizens, according to organizers—took to the streets, demanding democracy, justice, and freedom in the face of Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian rule.

Pretty soon we will all be talking about CoreWeave the same way we were all talking about Countrywide Financial back in 2008. on.ft.com/426yoOG

Everyone everywhere should be protesting the egregious violation of the rule of law in the administration's detention of Mahmoud Khalil. Especially if you are faculty and Jewish -- since this is being done in our name -- please consider signing this open letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share! 🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne 🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025 www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...

are they coming to save us apnews.com/article/cali...

Find comrades as hard core as the pigeons out there eating the rock salt off my driveway

in 2017 when Trump first took office, Tech workers pushed bosses to speak out against him. 2025 is different; bosses are quick to fire and tamp down revolts. what it means to #resist inside Big Tech is more subtle now w/ @kateconger.com @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...

Come for the Dank Gramsci shoutout, stay for the "complex unity structured in dominance"

Find me an occupation with better propaganda than paleontology

Please spread the word! 👇 We are happy to announce that the next conference of the political economy section of the German Political Science association will take place @uni-mainz in September 2025. Join us to discuss "Political Economy Transformation in Hard Times" Submission deadline February 15

Very happy for this article with @tomduterme.bsky.social to be out in the world. It's also the most straightforward title I've ever written: it does what it says on the tin!! Hope it will offer useful clarity for anyone reading or writing about these concepts.

Changes to departments' operational budget, FY24-25:

Important to point out there were at least 10k people protesting www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...

2025, a good year to highlight a political truth: when we fight, we win. We saved our forest/water supply! Mayor Macksey: "given the public outcry regarding the impact the project could have on the Bellows Pipe Trail, I have decided to not move forward with the plan.” www.wamc.org/news/2024-12...

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📣 DEADLINE NEXT WEEK Are you studying questions of loss and decline in the #climate crisis and would enjoy a paid trip to Cologne to discuss these issues over tiny Cologne beers? Then apply for our @mpifg.bsky.social paper-development workshop for our SER SI!

🚨Job alert 🚨 Williams College seeks a VAP in Political Science (AY 2024 - 2025) Focus: comparative politics, especially Africa/East Asia, but we're particularly interested in candidates who will excel at teaching Intro to Comparative Interfolio link below 👇 Happy to answer any Qs!

CfA for one of the most exciting conferences I've seen: **Labor and the Crisis of Democracy Conference at CUNY SLU** See below for link

Please forgive a little earnest-posting. I’m finding the start of 2025 kind of hard and while there are obvious reasons to dread what’s coming, I think it’s more than the new administration. A lot of my ground truths have been unsettled in a way that makes it hard to know what to do next.

Corporate Kantians

Do you work on European integration and want to live in one of the most livable cities in 🇪🇺? We have an opening for 3-year postdoc position at our research group, which is part of the #polsci department @univie.ac.at. Application Deadline: Jan 9, 2025. More info: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Also sort of interesting how this is all over the German news (ARD, SZ, MDR, etc.), and the only US outlet to pick it up is like Yahoo and MSN, despite being *probably* a good thing for people in the US to be thinking about right now

👀 www.yahoo.com/news/german-...

Inflation bug at the money tree again

Fellow nerds, what's the citation style that is: Author (date), as a footnote? I'm looking for a Zotero package and can't find anything, but I'm sure one of you knows what to call this and where I can find it (it's not Chicago, because that doesn't put the date in parentheses)