Erin Torkelson, Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers - @dukepress.bsky.social, May 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/predatory-we...

Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers

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My book is out today! Based on long-term ethnographic research in the Czech city of Ostrava, it theorises the link between political economy & anti-Roma racism. It offers a critique of the low-cost labour regime, which is the backbone of Czech manufacturing production tinyurl.com/ymvf6kby

Manchester University Press - Surplus lives under racial capitalism

Surplus lives under racial capitalism - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Surplus lives under racial capitalism by Barbora Cernusáková

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The Weekly Read is "From 'Golden Venture' to Golden Visas: The Reenchantment of Culture and Flexible Citizenship in a Nativist World" by Pál Nyíri and Fanni Beck: https://buff.ly/4jQ6IpE The article is published in positions: asia critique 32:4: https://buff.ly/40Fseo8

My new book Cancelled Futures is out with @princetonupress.bsky.social September 8th Based on 62 interviews with working-class youth living in East London, Rochdale & Morecambe it examines how race, class, gender and place shape how young people envision their transition to work shorturl.at/hVEL7

Cancelled Futures

How race, class, gender, and place shape the ways working-class young people in Britain envision their transition from education to work

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This new book features: @meghanetinsley.bsky.social on decolonialisation; @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social & Siobhan O'Neill on racialised injustice & @bcernusa.bsky.social & Bhallamudi on technology & work. All welcome at the book launch on 8 April!

University of Manchester Sociology Department@uomsociology.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📘 Book launch: Interrogating the Global Social Challenges 📅 Wed 8 April 2026 6.45pm Come along for a sociological perspective on challenges inc global waste, racial injustice, gender, work, climate, pandemics, radicalisation, ageing, inequality & migration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Surplus Lives: Out on the 28 April manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181855/ The book builds an argument that the introduction of capitalism in the 1990s Czechia overlapped with the rise of racialised disposability of Roma workers. @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

Manchester University Press - Surplus lives under racial capitalism

Surplus lives under racial capitalism - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Surplus lives under racial capitalism by Barbora Cernusáková

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"Introduction of "dynamic wages" based on productivity, allowing salaries to fluctuate from month to month..." & more

LabourStart@labourstart.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Argentina's Labour Reform: The Fight Is Not Over Yet [PSI] bit.ly/not-over-yet

Join us on the 26th March!

BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association)@bsatheory.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable A BSA Theory Study Group Event 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens within contemporary social theory

The new issue of SAQ is out, featuring my article on Roma workers and the disciplining of labour under Czech racial capitalism: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Roma Workers and the Disciplining of Labor Under Czech Racial Capitalism

This article theorizes the racialization of Roma within the first three decades of capitalism in East Central Europe. Its findings echo the studies of racial capitalism in other geographies where raci...

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Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We celebrate the publication of issue one of the 125th volume of SAQ! "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe," edited by Sarah Bufkin and Ida Danewid, is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/x1m3Ejx

Tomorrow (Monday 2 Feb, 8-9pm (GMT). £5.

thi wurd@thiwurd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

thi wurd hour: Improvising New Writing. Online. Monday 2nd Feb 2026, 7-8pm (GMT). All writers welcome. Read about it here: www.thi-wurd.com/thi-wurd-hou...

One of the best films released this year. #FilmSky

Seán Costello@seanjcostello.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is not exactly a Christmas movie, but its depiction of a woman struggling to survive in a dehumanised worplace in the service of rampant consumerism, set against the kindness and decency of the people she encounters in the outside world, holds out some hope of redemption. Highly recommended.

Surplus Lives under Racial Capitalism: Roma in Post‑Socialist Czechia available for pre‑order (out: April 2026). Drawing on long-term ethnogprahy, legal and policy analysis it traces how Roma became the racialised surplus populations in East Central Europe: lnkd.in/e7wWsyPE

Wage formation isn’t just about supply and demand—it’s about power. This article argues for a bold interdisciplinary approach to political economy, urging economists to center power—political, social, and institutional—in their analysis of wages. By @skvogel.bsky.social buff.ly/289QEmv

Toward an Interdisciplinary Political Economy of Wages - Steven K. Vogel, 2025

This article reviews how some social scientists have transcended disciplinary boundaries in their scholarship on wage formation and proposes specific pathways f...

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My book *Surplus lives under racial capitalism: Roma in post-socialist Czechia* will be out in April 2016. Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y33k947p

Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press! Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma… | ...

Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press! Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma rac...

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January 2026 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke UP) edited by Sarah Bufkin & Ida Danewid theorises racial capitalism in (post)imperial Europe. My contribution discusses the relationship between racialisation of Roma through workfare & debtfare, and high industrial employment in Czechia

It's heartwarming to be in Ostrava for fieldwork again & to start a day with Cate Le Bon's 'Home to you' from a Roma neighbourhood (in another city): www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Xs... www.npr.org/sections/all...

Cate Le Bon - Home to You (Official Video)

YouTube video by Cate Le Bon

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We need our countries to get serious about abandoning US tech and putting serious resources behind developing more public-oriented alternatives their citizens can use instead. Always great to get @ceciliarikap.bsky.social’s insights on these topics. Don’t miss our chat!

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 12mo ago

For years, countries accepted their dependence on US tech companies. That needs to change. This week @ceciliarikap.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss why it’s so important for governments to champion digital sovereignty that puts people first. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/290_...

“We knew the Irish would stand with us,” - Max Levitas (102) www.irishtimes.com/culture/heri... #CableStreet

Battle of Cable Street: when the Irish helped beat back the fascists

A survivor of the legendary London street battle recalls a dramatic day in the East End

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This Many Years Ago@thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 10mo ago

89 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️

"Both Argentina and Turkey show how class coalitions can briefly expand policy space, but without structural transformation these tactical gains evaporate. In both cases, dependency on volatile capital flows... has forced governments back into orthodoxy and deeper external subordination."

Umit Akcay@umitak.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Last week at the EAEPE conference, I presented a co-authored paper on Argentina’s and Turkey’s responses to the 2018 currency crises and their class dynamics. The timing coincided with Milei’s U.S. visit and new support package. Here’s a short blogpost on this: open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...

Marco Omizzolo: “The government & the mainstream media have framed Satnam’s death as a scandal, when it is in fact the horrific expression of a daily reality experienced by hundreds of thousands of agricultural workers, most of them migrants, who are not only exploited but whose lives are at risk."

LabourStart@labourstart.bsky.social · 10mo ago

ITALY: “How many more Satnams have to die” before the deadly and systemic exploitation of migrant farmworkers in Italy is dismantled? www.equaltimes.org/how-many-mor...

Brillaint article “Fail better”: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and learning from failure by @mmrovlje.bsky.social is also part of the Special Issue on Utopia and Failure journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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“Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to be: entertainment movies. They are the most political films because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything's fine… a continual advertisement for things as they are.” - Wim Wenders

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ALT: a black and white photo of two men standing in front of a wall with graffiti on it

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"The U.S. is planning to push chipmakers to match the volume of semiconductors that their customers currently import from overseas providers through domestic production, or pay a tariff, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday." finance.yahoo.com/news/us-plan...

US plans 1:1 chip production rule to curb overseas reliance, WSJ reports

President Donald Trump has doubled down on his efforts to reshore semiconductor manufacturing, offering exemptions from tariffs of roughly 100% on chips to firms that produce domestically. Companies ...

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My book ms "The Inattention Economy: Seeing the Digital Labor of Women of Color” is in production at the University of Minnesota Press. So grateful to Anne Carter and Leah Pennywark at UMP. It's a book about how the work of digital infrastructure became women of colors' work and thus invisible

"The inherent exclusivity and parochialism of the modern nation-state is not a marginal phenomenon but constitutes a central feature of our political system, which is likely to spread unless contained, and, as such, we are all likely to be forced to confront it one way or the other."

Mikkel Flohr@mflohr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell. In America we've taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration." –Trump to the UN Suddenly feel the need to share my article "Beyond the Nation State: Rereading Hannah Arendt's 'We Refugees' Eighty Years Later" again

"AI" and outsourced labour: "Huang has said that for every 1 gigawatt of AI infrastructure deployed, as much as $50bn is spent on the computing hardware... as well as the server racks that are produced by the likes of Foxconn, HP, Dell and Super Micro" www.ft.com/content/7cee...

Nvidia’s $100bn bet on ‘gigantic AI factories’ to power ChatGPT

Jensen Huang seeks to ensure US chipmaker stays at the heart of new tech

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"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."

Charles Umney@charlesumney.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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/...

In «Konterrevolution und Revolte» beschreibt Herbert Marcuse, wie die westlichen Staaten nach den 68er-Protesten mit einer Konterrevolution reagierten, um das kapitalistische System zu restabilisieren. 👉 Hört jetzt die neue Folge «tl;dr» – überall dort, wo es Podcasts gibt.

"Amidst lax regulatory guidelines, payment and lending platforms mushroomed in India to such an extent that they created unease and anxiety among consumers and regulators, as some predatory loan apps... started harassing customers who could not repay on time."

Niels van Doorn@nielsvdoorn.bsky.social · last yr.

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