So much value: "Samsung's operating profit in the January to March quarter jumped about 750% from a year earlier." So much solidarity: "The union said that 23,000 workers who were making less advanced chips for companies like Tesla and Nvidia should not be left behind." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Samsung strike on hold as workers push for AI bonus

The walkout, which was due to start on Thursday, has been suspended while union members vote on a tentative deal.

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Shame on @wiley.com for extorting authors to feed our work to their AI contractors

And everyone says it's toddlers who are bad at sharing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

3 Men Are Arrested in $1 Million Lego Theft in California

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Talk alert! Weds, March 4th - @peterbrannen.bsky.social in conversation with me and @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social at Williams College! CO2, geology, AND capitalism. 7:00pm in Wachenheim Room B11, open to the public, books for sale & signing (& cookies) to follow: events.williams.edu/event/the-st...

🚨We're hiring! 🚨 Williams College Department of Political Science is looking for a one-year visiting assistant professor of political science in comparative politics. (Preferred regional focus: Africa and/or South Asia) apply.interfolio.com/181758 Closes Feb 23, 2026

Few books have made such an impact on my thinking recently as Brannen's "The Story of CO2." Can't wait to discuss with @peterbrannen.bsky.social on March 4th. Come by if you're in Western Mass, and if you're not, go get yourself this book!

Phoebe Cohen@phoebefossil.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So excited to bring @peterbrannen.bsky.social to campus and get to talk with him again about CO2, this time with my amazing colleague @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social on board as well! March 4th for those in the area -

Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field. Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social Send them your abstracts!

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 Call for Abstracts! Join the 4th Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 19 -20, 2026 at the MPIfG in Cologne. 🎓 We welcome abstracts by doctoral researchers in economic sociology, political economy and related fields by Dec 8, 2025. s.gwdg.de/U27NQb

A must read paper on how Big Tech uses start-ups from Spain and Brazil to advance their political interests 👇👇👇

Sidney Rothstein@sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Out now in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social “Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery” @journals.sagepub.com #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1/n

Out now in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social “Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery” @journals.sagepub.com #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1/n

Workers Governing Technologies: Collective Strategies Across Contexts. In-person workshop in Toronto on Sep 25 and 26 with 20 speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Spain and US Registration link and full schedule: www.eventbrite.ca/e/workers-go...

A few things cooler than AI by Andy J. Pizza

"UC Berkeley’s Labor Center launches a new data tool, an inventory of union contracts, to empower labor in negotiating AI and emerging technologies. It provides crucial insights for unions to secure worker protections and shape the future of work." lngfrm.net/uc-berkeley-...

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4). 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

Good week to re-up this report by @ocampomar.bsky.social and @ips-dc.org: Following Massachusetts' Fair Share Amendment (tax on millionaires), did the millionaires leave en masse as they had threatened? No, the millionaires stayed -- and tax revenue increased! ips-dc.org/report-wealt...

Wealth Expands After Higher State Taxes on High-Income Earners - Institute for Policy Studies

Wealth Expands After Higher State Taxes on High-Income Earners

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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

One more piece of (really) good evidence that AI domination of all that is well and good is not a fait accompli. Workers can fight back and decide how AI is governed. New work out by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @guiaoquadrado.bsky.social and André Campos Rocha: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Worker-led AI governance: Hollywood writers' strikes and the worker power

This article theorizes worker-led AI governance through the 2023 Hollywood writers' strike, arguing that workers can shape the governance of generative AI from below. Drawing on the power resources...

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In Montréal for SASE 2025 – or nearby? 🇨🇦 Join us Thursday, July 10 for free public sessions at the Palais des Congrès – no badge needed. Global scholars, union leaders & policymakers discuss labor, social economy & policy innovation. #SASE2025 #Montreal #PublicSessions

Read more about the first-ever content moderator global union alliance here: uniglobalunion.org/news/moderat...

Content moderators launch first-ever global alliance, demand safe working conditions and accountability from tech giants

Content moderators have formed the first-ever global trade union alliance to fight for living wages, safe conditions and union representation.

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Microsoft fired 6,000 Seattle locals this week so they can set more money on fire for AI and Semafor doesn't think that's worth mentioning despite running with this headline

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🟡 NEW: Microsoft helped kick off the AI boom. It needs humans more than ever, its CEO says.

‘U is for Union!’: Sesame Workshop Workers Win NLRB Election Organizing with the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 153, workers endured aggressive anti-union actions on the part of management in order to secure Thursday's win.

‘U is for Union!’: Sesame Workshop Workers Win NLRB Election

Organizing with the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 153, workers endured aggressive anti-union actions on the part of management in order to secure Thursday's win.

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At Middlebury College, admin introduces deep budget cuts -- faculty vote (94%!) to walkout in protest ✊ Cuts include: 🔪 faculty/staff housing 🔪health insurance 🔪retirement (All while increasing undergraduate enrollment (i.e., speedup)) www.addisonindependent.com/2025/05/05/c...

Mass's Fair Share Amendment is one of the most successful policies I've seen in the recent past (it increases funding for child care, ed, health, transit by taxing millionaires) But more millionaires is still a huge policy failure www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Report: Number of millionaires in Mass. has actually gone up since new tax took effect

Since the Fair Share Amendment, or the so-called “millionaires tax,” passed in 2022, Massachusetts has seen an increase in high earners.

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Serbia’s academics outraged over limits to research, disappointed by EU response

Academics in Serbia are up in arms over a sudden move by the government to limit the time university lecturers can spend on research. Previously allowed to spend 20 hours a week on research, they will...

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I guess I'm actually proud to be so bad at social media that I did this whole thread to promote my article but forgot to post a link. Anyway, the article is open access, and you can find it here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Sidney Rothstein@sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · last yr.

To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class? This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy 1/n

Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector Link to open access paper: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... cc @civictechallies.bsky.social @civictechguide.bsky.social

Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards, deadline June 1 2025. Welcoming submissions for monographs, graduate student papers and *social justice awards* which invite tech workers, labor organisers, activists, designers and others! @labortech.bsky.social labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards

To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class? This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy 1/n

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New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here we go: every single @thedigradio.bsky.social guest on Bluesky go.bsky.app/4T6xwZf