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🔍 How is hybrid working changing in the UK? New from the Commons Library, this quick summary looks at hybrid working since the pandemic, government policy, and recent findings from a House of Lords inquiry: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/hybrid-worki...

Last week we published a report showing the super rich are using their wealth to buy huge political influence over the UK through political donations, control of the media, and Lords. Here's some ways we've been proven right since 🧵

One of too many examples of working class people in the UK not receiving appropriate justice and the powerful evading accountability. Happens again, again and again in the British class system.

Nigel Farage’s Legacy — Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...

Forced labour and slavery are not a thing of the past. 🔴 Almost 50 million people were in modern slavery in 2021. Nothing can justify this human rights abuse today. #EndModernSlavery

This is poignant.

we reported after Rayner's departure that employment rights bill would be watered down, and ministers denied it over and over again: here is the first new major compromise: www.ft.com/content/3391...

My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…

Rachel Reeves can't "tackle the cost of living crisis" in her budget today without tackling PRIVATISATION It means YOU pay an extra tax on - your bills 💧💡 - your council tax 🧓🚸 - investment in your public services 🏥🏫 Time to end the 40 year rip off www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEoz...

"The cost of high energy bills must be tackled at source" Rachel Reeves says at #Budget2025 That means ENDING PRIVATISATION

The sources of the crises in our society – the super rich, oil and gas companies, banks and energy companies – will be delighted that today's budget chooses to protect them and tax us instead.

Underinvestment, inequality, disasterous privatisation and austerity 🫣

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

📽️ Missed the event? Watch the full recording🔗 etui.org/Z9V 📄 Explore more: Read the Transfer issue "Experimentation in ‘buying decent work'" - with several articles available in open access 🔓 etui.org/Z9R Listen to an ETUI podcast episode on public procurement for the public good 🎧 etui.org/Z99

"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear,"

Makes you wonder how much worse things would have been without the period of investment via European structural funds. Homegrown 'managed decline' under Thatcherism, austerity and 'Brexshit'.

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Very interesting and timely paper by Tine Molendijk in @wesjnl.bsky.social. Great to see the concept of moral injury being given more sociological and contextual depth.

📗 'Experimenting for union renewal: challenges, illustrations and lessons' examines how trade unions from across the world are responding in experimental ways to disruptions that are destabilising traditional structures and practices 🔗 etui.org/Z9M

It is never the wrong time re-reading Kalecki's article. www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/kale...

This is outdated dinosaur management.

A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor Please apply!

New publication 🚨 Happy to have a chapter in the new Handbook of Comparative Political Economy, which offers a great overview of the state of the field, edited by Marino Regini. doi.org/10.4337/9781... @sampol.bsky.social

share.google/images/opwDB... It is worth recalling Keir Starmer's original 10 pledges for his leadership bid. What does he stand for now🧐

EU Court ruling establishes that the EU can set meaningful standards for wage adequacy and collective bargaining coverage, creating a foundation for upward convergence in labour standards across the Union, writes @rolanderne.bsky.social www.socialeurope.eu/eu-court-uph...

🤵🖥️ Remote and hybrid working are now a new normal for many. How has this affected the UK working landscape? 📢 Read the key points in a summary of our report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ on #wfh ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...

How many pop stars do you see dancing with their local MP these days? Bessie Braddock MP (Labour - Liverpool Exchange, 1945-70) died on this day in 1970. She had been an MP for nearly 20 years when this was taken with a 21 year-old George Harrison. Braddock was a huge supporter of music in Liverpool

Includes evidence collated by a research team at University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Minimum Wages: Directive put beyond all doubt by today’s ruling of the Court of Justice. @estherlynch.bsky.social 📢 "this judgment confirms that the Minimum Wage Directive stands firm – the EU can and must act for fair wages."

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

My beautiful laundrette www.theguardian.com/football/202...

We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank

The rule of law has delivered: Profiteering Poverty Poor housing Low wages/pensions Queues for hospital appointments Premature death to many Sewage in rivers Cuts in spending on essential services Closure of libraries, community centres. Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.

$1 trillion pack packages reflect an economic model which is broken and in urgent need of radical reform

Nigel Farage supports lowering the minimum wage, opposes taxes on the wealthy. So whose side is he on?

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest

‘As early as 1971, a Toxteth councillor, Margaret Simey, predicted that the police would provoke a “civil war” in the city. In 1981, her prediction proved accurate.’ Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on how and why Liverpool got left behind. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: your Gen Z colleagues have the right idea about work-life balance as they've copped that work should not be the centre of your life. By Kevin Murphy @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

💰 “Households are being fleeced pure & simple. Energy bills up by 42% since 2021, whilst energy companies made £30bn profit in just 1 yr. The govt is turning a blind eye to these excessive profits. That must change. Everyday people cannot continue to pay” @unitesharon.bsky.social  shorturl.at/XJO5A

Shocking report on appalling working conditions and health and safety standards in Amazon warehouses.

"when history judges us, it won’t ask how 'agile' we were. It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck. ...a republic is measured...in who it chooses to help, and who it casually hurts". 👏 👏 👏 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Farage: epic grifter

📢 Applications are open for the Sociology (SOC) and Work, Employment and Society (WES) Editorial Boards! Both welcome ECRs, with Sociology offering mentoring for those newer to reviewing. 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Oct 2025, 17:00 GMT 👉 Apply or nominate: www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

More than 50 years after it was published, Ralph Miliband's The State in Capitalist Society remains indispensable for any socialist movement with ambitions of power.

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

Well when you put it like that, I don't know if this is the best system for getting water.