www.theworkersunion.com/2025/06/03/g... great write up of our latest research publication with @alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social on the Workers Union website

This is actually a surprisingly good write up of our research by the Mail who also approached Uber and Deliveroo for comment www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

Riders and drivers in the UK gig economy suffer anxiety over ratings and pay: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/gig-...

Write up of our @wesjnl.bsky.social article "Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work" phys.org/news/2025-06...

Me discussing our new @wesjnl.bsky.social article: "Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work" Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0950...

Our article "Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work" has been published by 'Work, Employment and Society'. With Nick Martindale and @brendanburchell.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0950...

Exited to discuss our Gig Rights Project findings that platform workers want labour rights, trade unions and works councils with Justin Madders MP, Minister for Employment Rights, today. Read the research here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great new article by @Jess Brand and @linadencik.bsky.social on how platform businesses strategies are impacting worker identity @datajusticelab.bsky.social

A beautiful day at Darwin College for reading Durand’s ‘How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techo-feudalism’

What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age? Thrilled about this new open-access paper with @islandexpress in @compchange.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1177/1024... It's packed with ideas. A thread of it's key interventions:

1. We argue that emergent unions like Connect_IFAT and TGPWU in India's gig and platform sector aren’t just 'new' unions & orgs. They're part of a longer history of formal & informal labour struggles, pulling from Reena Agarwala's 1st, 2nd & 3rd waves of legal empowerment.

6.And we set them up globally. From recent work by Umney et al. @digitcentre.bsky.social to @alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social and others', we attempt to situate Indian gig worker organising in a wider international conversation. There are patterns, but also crucial divergences

In Parliament to discuss protecting gig workers in the age of AI. I’ll be advocating for labour rights, unions and codetermination via works councils. Read the research below

Meanwhile, Sharon Osbourne thinks telling people about Israeli war crimes at Coachella "compromised its moral and spiritual integrity”....

Pleased to see that Michael Burawoy's important article 'Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine?' has been posthumously published by @sociologicalreview.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The 'responsible choice' for Rachel Reeves and the Labour Party is to rise taxes those with broadest shoulders not cut benefits for the vulnerable. Reeves is easily the worst thing to have happened to the Labour Party since the Gang of Four.

I defended my PhD thesis on Friday. Thanks to the opponents, Trine P. Larsen and @alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social, for your thorough reading, relevant and challenging questions, and for very interesting discussions.

Was a pleasure to read and examine @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social’s excellent thesis.

What’s the point of the Labour Party? Its refusal to raise tax on the rich, is not only doing untold harm to the vulnerable but is opening the door to Reform. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Agnieszka Piasna on the relationship between #digitalisation and #JobQuality at our recent #FutureOfWork conference Conference recordings 🔗 etui.org/Z8T Digitalisation topic page 🔗 etui.org/Z6Y

"The presidents of the 60 schools...need to stand up together and say: Enough is enough. You simply can’t have free universities in a democratic society if the federal government can establish gratuitous, seemingly random restrictions on what they say and do." www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/11/u...

This year's @camsociology.bsky.social Yr 10-13 Photograph Competition 2025 is open on the theme of 'Real Utopias'. Winning student & school receive £100 each & an invitation to visit the University of Cambridge (online for schools outside UK) www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/photo-compet...

This sounds really cool. Evidence of divergences among platform workers in job quality reporting in different sectors 👇

'Beyond the ‘gig economy’: towards variable experiences of job quality in platform work' An article I wrote with Nick Martindale and Brendan Burchell has been accepted by @wesjnl.bsky.social Watch this space....

'Beyond the ‘gig economy’: towards variable experiences of job quality in platform work' An article I wrote with Nick Martindale and Brendan Burchell has been accepted by @wesjnl.bsky.social Watch this space....

London May Day Organising Committee presents 📣 May Day 2025 🌹 Yes to workers rights, no to the far right. 📍Assemble 12 noon 🥾March 1pm 🎪Rally 2.30 Speakers to be announced 🗣️ #London #MayDay2025 #MayDay #LDN #Workers #Unions

My obituary for Michael Burawoy has been published by Work in the Global Economy. I tried to provide both some insight into Michael as a person, his work and especially his politics. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

That chart is so scary…and to think it passes unnoticed by the most politically powerful...

New Publication! How do greenhouse gas emissions differ across social classes in the UK? Combining new data with Reckwitz' class theoretical framework, my colleagues @m-lindner.bsky.social, @toni.schuster.bsky.social and me have just published an article on this www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Preprint of my obituary of Michael Burawoy for the journal 'Work in the Global Economy' - hopefully will be published soon. I've tried to provide an account of Michael's political development over the decades papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Finishing my slides for next Monday's 'Soc 9: Global Capitalism' lecture on 'Sociological Theory at Work'

❤️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Want to know why @Uber drivers were striking this valentines? We surveyed 500 platform workers to find out what platform workers want! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Uber drivers protesting in Birmingham

Thousands of Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee drivers are to strike today from 4pm, demanding better pay, rights and safety measures in response to worsening conditions that are requiring them to spend dramatically more time on the road to earn a living www.theguardian.com/business/202...

What led to the ‘biggest moment for workers’ rights for a quarter of a century’? Vicente Silva and I look at this question in our new article published in @wesjnl.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The International Sociological Association (ISA) deeply mourns the tragic passing of Michael Burawoy, a leading sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, and the 17th President of ISA. Michael was fatally struck in a hit-and-run accident on February 3rd. His loss is immeasurable.

Happy to now have another paper from the PhD out with @ronancarbery.bsky.social @amcdonnellhrm.bsky.social, and Stefan Jooss! 😊 This paper finds home in an exciting special issue on 'Power relations in the digital economy', which will be out in due course (Link to paper in comments)

In case you are unable to join the online tribute honoring the life and contributions to sociology of Michael Burawoy today, Feb. 8, at noon (12 pm Eastern), you can watch the recording on the ISA YouTube channel afterward https://bit.ly/414VbLC

I'm preparing a lecture on 'Sociological Theory at Work' and stumbled upon this Michael Burawoy quote from an old lecture slide. Sums up what being a Marxist social scientist means so perfectly.

Eren took this beautiful photo of Michael Burawoy with his great friend Erik Olin Wright in 2002. Every Thursday night after our weekly TA meeting, Michael treated the seven of us to a REALLY nice dinner (wine always included). Erik joined one night @ Yoshi's for dinner and music.

It's a great irony that we learnt of Michael Burawoy's death on the day that Trump announced his plan for Gaza to be turned into American controlled real estate. Michael argued for the centrality of land exploitation in understanding Israeli settler colonialism. burawoy.berkeley.edu/Settler%20Co...

So sad to learn of the untimely death of Michael Burawoy. Anyone who researches workplaces and class will tell you that Manufacturing Consent remains a vital touchstone for labour scholars and Marxists. Today I would also emphasise its particular relevance for thinking about computational capitalism

Deeply sadness by the loss of Michael Burawoy, a remarkable scholar in the sociology of work. His contribution has inspired and will continue to inspire generations of labour scholar. A great loss to our community. #ESA RN17

He shared many dinners with students, from weekly dinners with his TAs to end-of-the-term celebratory dinners, departmental parties, ASA alumni gatherings, etc. He was generous, practiced what he taught as a scholar of Marx & supported many grad students in times of need from the “Burawoy fund.”

Rest in Power Michael Burawoy you will live on in your words burawoy.berkeley.edu

The sudden and tragic loss of Michael Burawoy is devastating beyond words. A peerless scholar, mentor, teacher, activist, and friend, with a wry wit and an enormous heart. The only consolation is that he brought so many of us together, an extended family of kin who strive to carry on his legacy.

“We are shocked and saddened by the news of Professor Michael Burawoy’s passing. His untimely death is a great loss to sociology & to movements for justice around the world.” @michaelabenson.bsky.social on a collegiate, courageous giant of the discipline. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Michael Burawoy is one of the reasons I came to love sociology. I admired him so much, both for his scholarship and activism, but also his deep humanity. It was a privilege to know him and the many brilliant students he produced. What a profound loss to the world we have suffered today. RIP Michael.

An unbelievble scholar and human being. So generous and supportive.