400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February

⭕️ The last Bedouin community in the southern Jordan Valley is being emptied, as more than 120 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the hamlet of Ras Ein al-Auja, according to B’Tselem. Residents were driven out after months of escalating settler violence... Additional details 👇

This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care."

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Join the launch of L-earning: rethinking young women's working lives project's final report to hear how women's early experiences of work shape future inequalities. 12 December, 4pm-7pm, University House, London. www.eventbrite.com/e/report-lau... @katerhardy.bsky.social @sspatleeds.bsky.social

Let’s also not forget that foreign born nannies have been very vocal about facing no wages, sexual assault, and violence and if they speak out, their rich white employers will threaten to report them to ICE

Young women students are 50% more likely to work, face sexual harassment & unclear about their rights. Join us *today at 12pm* to hear more about our findings on women student workers from our ESRC project L-Earning: rethinking young women's working lives. www.eventbrite.com/e/briefing-l...

New article published on the CERIC website about the work our researchers @katerhardy.bsky.social and Mia Zhong have been doing with @ywworking.bsky.social business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cer...

Women have long faced sidelining in Marxist spaces, yet as this panel argues, their insights have radically reshaped Marxist thought—whether by exposing unpaid labor or connecting dispossession and oppression. Feat. Simin Fadaee, Helen Yaffe, @katerhardy.bsky.social et al. buff.ly/b7jqkTA

👀 Maybe all those @ucu.org.uk members who were told they couldn't take their employer to Employment Tribunal for [insert dubious excuse here] reasons over the punitive Action Short Of Strike deductions should feed into this? #EmploymentTribunal #EmploymentLaw #WorkersRights

It is with great sadness that we report the news that Professor Vincent Gillespie died at home on 13 March. Read more about Professor Gillespie's life as an inspiring scholar, a warm and caring tutor, and a much-loved colleague.

Just the sheer, obscene spectacle of a Government minister on £160K+ plus expenses and all the freebies, coming for the sub £10K per year that my son gets in PIP - being autistic & learning disabled in a deeply unequal, discriminatory & hostile society is not a “lifestyle choice”

@lilithbrouwers.bsky.social, @katerhardy.bsky.social & Prof. Kim Allen will present their experiences from the @ywworking.bsky.social project

1/3: Last August, upon my becoming a Prof., Vincent Gillespie emailed me unexpectedly to congratulate me & to note his belief that supporting rising talent meant more to him than any of his publications. He also said that it was now my turn to foster that support. When I was a PGR, after giving a …

My Father in Law, Vincent Gillespie, passed away last night. Vincent was born in Liverpool. His parents -who left school at 14- saw education as the ticket out of disadvantage. Vincent went on to become Emeritus J R R Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at @ox.ac.uk

New article from Hanne Stegeman & I: "Locating online labour: the salience of the national scale in remote digital work" (Environment & Planning A) We theorise nation-scale cultural & infrastructural norms & practices as still constitutive of online-only work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@lilithbrouwers.bsky.social, @katerhardy.bsky.social, & Prof. Kim Allen will present their experiences from the @ywworking.bsky.social project

The "Disrupting Technology" conference calls for abstracts of careful, empirically grounded, theorisations of technology & its impact on work and employment relations. Asking what is genuinely novel about digital innovations & should be excellent & of interest to readers & authors of NTWE.

🌟 Disrupting Technology Conference 2025, 16 & 17 June, Leeds 📣 Fantastic keynote speakers: 🔹 Prof Mark Graham, Fairwork & Oxford Internet Institute 🔹 Dr Uma Rani, Senior Economist, ILO ‼️ Abstract deadline 7 March ➡️ Join us! Check out the call for papers: business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cer...

A new study published in the Lancet finds that life expectancy in Gaza dropped by nearly half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, during the first twelve months of the genocide. Apocalyptic.

Sorry to have missed the UK-wide UCU VP and Treasurer hustings today, but I hear @illdoitanyway.bsky.social and Deepa Driver were articulate, and had concrete plans on how to move forward. Read more about Rhiannon here: rhiannonforucuvp.wordpress.com

Special Issue deadline approaching: "Reshaping work: Disabled people’s inclusion & digitalization in the new world of work" Exploring how digitalization, AI, & machine learning affect job search, hiring processes & working life for disabled people: tinyurl.com/5n7znjzx Deadline: 31 January 2025

With the exception of 4 days in November 2023, Israel has bombed Gaza every day for over 15 months. via: the IMEU

Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest for a forthcoming Special Section of The Sociological Review journal. More info buff.ly/4izyRjO Deadline 13 January Editors: @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social and Karis Campion #CfP #Gaza #Palestine Keffiyeh artwork buff.ly/41uSBir

Ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza.

Tomorrow is the final CERIC Seminar of the semester! Akram Al Ariss will be joining us online at 1pm to discuss Employment of International Migrants: What we know and what we still need to know. Free registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/akram-al-a...

““Belgium [passed a law that] allows sex workers to sign formal employment contracts — granting them access to sick days, maternity pay & pension. The new law also guarantees…the ability to refuse clients, set the conditions of an act, and stop an act at any moment” www.npr.org/2024/12/01/n...

Gig workers in Delhi suffer immensely from heightened air pollution, crossing even 1000 AQI. We conducted a health camp in Delhi for the gig & outdoor workers. Indian Govt should act to protect workers from climate crisis as well as make corporate platforms accountable.

Sort of wild that this doesn't seem to be in the news in the US, so here we go www.reuters.com/world/americ...

How do unions resist the implementation of technology that would otherwise have a deleterious impact on their member's terms and conditions of work? Our new paper in New Technology Work and Employment looks at this question. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As a team of researchers, we argue that policy reforms must address the pay and conditions of the very youngest workers, including students who are earning whilst learning. ywworking.co.uk

The L-earning team welcomes the focus on improving support for young people in the latest government White Paper and a recognition of the value of place-based policy solutions in the proposed #YouthGuarantee' trailblazer areas Get Britain Working White Paper. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Fantastic news that @digitcentre.bsky.social has been funded for another five years to carry on with the vital research into the UK's digital work ecosystem. Congratulations to all involved and I really look forward to working with all researchers & partners. digit-research.org/news_article...

We've migrated on to Bluesky, so please follow us to hear the lastest from "New Technology, Work and Employment". Please repost so that people can find us and hear about the latest articles and news from the journal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468...

🚨 THREE DAY WALKOUT CALLED 🚨 Our members will take strike action from 9-11 December after our employer further breached our long-running dispute & failed to prioritise finding a resolution. We take action reluctantly & are sorry to impact @ucu.org.uk members: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/s...

🚨 WINTER HITS GAZA: A SECOND WINTER LIVING THROUGH GENOC/DE 🚨 via humantiproject

Updated ucu people starter pack- please comment if I missed you if you want to be added. Also let me know if there is a way of making these more collaborative, have tried to be broad! go.bsky.app/8cndNJm

Following the ICC's arrest warrants, the Independent Alliance have written to the Prime Minister asking if he will comply with the ruling. The UK government must decide: is it on the side of Israeli impunity or international law?

Call for papers!! www.ilo.org/rdw2025 9th ILO RDW with WEI co-organisers @workequalities.bsky.social

4th Labour Transfer School: establishing links between research and labour activism Buggerru, Sardinia, Italy, 8th to 13th June 2025 Full details and to apply here: www.labourtransferschool.org

📣New paper out! How do digital platforms change when mandated to reclassify workers as employees? In our new research published in Socio-Economic Review, Pedro Mendonça and I examine how #Glovo, #UberEats, and #JustEat responded during the first year of the Spanish #LeyRider. (link at the bottom)

Submit to SASE Early Career Workshop! Note the earlier deadline this year, December 16 (so goes for regular submissions as well)

The proportion of low-to-middle income women not working due to caring for children responsibilities has fallen dramatically in recent decade. In 2022-23 7% of women in lower-income families said they weren't working due to childcare, down from 21% in 1996-97.

📢 Join us for the next HuLog Circle Talk on Wednesday, November 27, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM (CET) [online]! ✨ Topic: Labour Control and Worker Resistance at Amazon 🎤 Speaker: Prof. Peter Birke, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen 🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/fmhkZ @ceric-lubs.bsky.social

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