"How does the local state mediate the relationship between technological change and work?": Forthcoming in Work & Occupations. Offers a typology for how devolved govt can intervene to shape technology's impact on local workers, esp in low wage jobs. @digitcentre.bsky.social @ceric-lubs.bsky.social

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

It's been a long time coming, but I'm delighted to announce that my PhD paper "Sociotechnical Change in British Supermarkets: Examining the Role of Labour" has finally been published in New Technology, Work and Employment 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"In contrast to futurist predictions of the proliferation of labour-replacing technologies, the analysis shows how food retailers continued to prioritise short-term solutions contingent on human labour rather than investments in longer-term automation programme."

Many congratulations to @abbiewinton.bsky.social for this outstanding new paper in @ntwejournal.bsky.social! Essential reading for understanding technological adoption in retail workplaces, with a lot of additional insight into the implications of covid 🚨🚨👇👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The BBC is not going to allow us to not elect reform, they have decided.

'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”' Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.

"Understanding international waves of platform labour unrest"- our new piece in @britsoci.bsky.social's Everyday Society. es.britsoc.co.uk/understandin... Discusses our recent @wesjnl.bsky.social paper "Platform labour unrest in a global perspective: How, where and why do platform workers protest?"

Don’t ignore that the bbc asked a racist question here

Recently accepted at @wesjnl.bsky.social: "What does it mean to be passionate about your job? Three meanings of 'collectively oriented passion' in UK pubs". Pre-print OA here: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

What's astonishing about this is that "violence against a military force currently shelling civilians at food distribution points in the occupied territory they have been starving out" becomes equivalent to "calling for a genocide". It's just an insane moral reversal of the actual situation.

We are witnessing the first livestreamed genocide in history. Those who facilitate these crimes against humanity should face accountability — not those who have the humanity to oppose them. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2516781... Up to 319 members of staff are at risk, but the university claims most of them are hourly paid so they don't count. We represent ALL members, whatever your contract type. Your job's precarity does NOT make you less valid in our eyes. We see you.

"Understanding international waves of platform labour unrest"- our new piece in @britsoci.bsky.social's Everyday Society. es.britsoc.co.uk/understandin... Discusses our recent @wesjnl.bsky.social paper "Platform labour unrest in a global perspective: How, where and why do platform workers protest?"

Israel’s finance minister touts genocide: "The approach is entirely different from anything in the past… now we conquer, cleanse, and stay… what remains of the Strip is also being wiped out…. The population will reach the south of the Strip – and from there move to third countries.”

Undisguised imperial politics. An entire people being reduced to a geopolitical bargaining chip. Palestine truly has become the breaking point for any semblance of a rules-based international order.

Awful news-solidarity to friends at Greenwich and I hope its management sees sense.

University of Greenwich facing backlash over claims it is planning to cut more than 300 jobs, equivalent to a quarter of total workforce www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-cal... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

“It is astonishing that a Labour government would abandon the labour force of an entire sector. My inbox is filled with individual artists & global companies who are bewildered that the government would allow theft at scale & cosy up to those who are thieving.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A true scandal. One of the biggest free speech violations of our lifetimes and yet the people who screamed about free speech on campus for the past decade were either responsible for the violation (Trump, GOP) or ran cover for it and enabled it (Bari Weiss, Fox, etc).

Really happy we are joint winners of the Sage prize for papers in WES, congrats to Louise and her coauthors as well. Our paper identifies two distinct waves of global labour unrest by platform economy workers- you can read it free through the link below.

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari: “Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”

A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

Today is a day of action by authors against extractive and parasitical use of our works by AI. We should support people who actually try to use their brains to create things, in opposition to technologies which are designed to stop people doing that. More info below.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Very pleased to be part of this great collection. Our chapter is on the surprising persistence of national industrial relations regimes in explaining platform labour unrest across Europe.

The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work, co-edited with @silviarainone.bsky.social, is now available @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @etui.bsky.social Thanks to the authors for their insights on app-based food delivery! More info 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the... #GigEconomy #FoodForThought

Almost unbelievably grotesque- rounded up by thugs, separated from family and threatened with deportation, for the crime of being anti-genocide. Will University leaders stand up for humane values in the face of shameless intimidation. apnews.com/article/colu...

🚨"Marketization" now Open Access. Based on 100s of intviews, examines price competition as a strategy in European political economy esp its role in class discipline and subverting democratic oversight👇Labour party advisors at Times Literary Supplement hated it but you may not😁 tinyurl.com/4vhfjy7w

🚨Call for applications - WES PhD Showcase Writing Workshop, 2-3 June 2025 at the University of Nottingham, led by 4 @wesjnl.bsky.social editors. Excellent opportunity for 16 delegates. Open to international members, with limited contribution. see - www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Time is running out to submit something to Disrupting Technology 2025. This is one of the very best conferences out there on technology and work, and will be a highlight of my conference year.

📅 CHANGE OF DATE - CERIC Doctoral Conference 📅 The 2025 CERIC Doctoral Conference will now be held on Friday 23rd May. The call for papers is still live until Wednesday 16th April.

You can also now get the PDF of this on researchgate here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🌟 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...

Very happy to learn that our paper "Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective: How, Where and Why Do Platform Workers Protest?" has been shortlisted for the 2025 Sage Prize for research. Several years of work went into this- You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

👀👀Really interesting report from my Leeds index colleague Morgan, analysing the development of platform labour unrest in India👇👇

I highly recommend the third "Disrupting Technology" conference, Leeds, 16-17 June. This is becoming an essential conference for anyone interested in critically interrogating the relationship between technology and work. I submitted an abstract the moment I saw the CfP🥇 tinyurl.com/29r9x8u9

🙏🙏Really enjoyed reading the review and discussing w Harry. Hopefully the book will be available open access some point soon

Today we are hosting a workshop on how to improve work quality in low-paid sectors in Yorkshire, with participants from local govt, unions, charities and advocacy groups that work with migrant workers. Looking to find ways our research findings can help with this.

The chapter described below 👇👇is now available open access at the link. We argue that the large literature on labour platforms and platform workers needs to be rebalanced towards a focus on how non-labour platforms affect non-platform workers. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

An image of Mothin was included in a viciously Islamophobic video posted by Tommy Robinson & vastly amplified by Elon Musk. These attacks are unhinged, libellous & extremely dangerous. Mothin has worked tirelessly for the good of his entire community & is a credit to the @greenparty.org.uk.

Looks so interesting, looking forward to reading the papers. I think industrial relations people could engage more with debates around planning: what different approaches to planning might mean for ir systems, and of course vice versa.

Finally found a moment to post this! Here my latest article on trade union identity, framing processes and strategy in WES 😊 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....