This perspicacious and well-informed overview of the history of the political economy of communication by Jernej A. Prodnik seems destined to become a staple of student reading lists. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
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An international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal founded in 2006 by Ursula Huws who still edits it. It is now published open access by Pluto Journals. Articles are available on Science Open and on Jstor. See https://wolg.wordpress.com
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... Ergin Bulut on AI in the classroom and what it means for teachers' labour and for student learning
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... Amazing article by Lee McGuigan and Vincent Manzarolle describes the astonishing range of ways that AI can be used to coerce us into consumption, (in the process ratcheting up social inequalities) in the 'shoppable sublime'
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Cambridge’s youngest Black professor is under attack. Campaigners aren’t having it
Jason Arday is being targeted by persistent, unfounded plagiarism allegations, prompting warnings about the wider impact on aspiring Black and brown leaders
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On Call in a Burning City: How Extreme Heat Is Reshaping Women’s Platform Work in Delhi NCR
Thousands of Indians are falling ill and dying of preventable deaths due to extreme heat. Heat Watch is helping expand awareness, capacity, and accountability to facilitate better decision-making and ...
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www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... Interesting analysis of pro-Gaza cmpus activism by Aliaa Dakroury
Communication rights, power and pro-Gaza campus activism
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d3445946e80">This article examines pro-Gaza campus activism and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as contemporary struggles over communication rights and democratic participation. Focusing on student encampments across Canadian universities in 2024, it argues that such actions function not only as political protests but as intentional communicative practices that reclaim space, visibility and collective voice. Drawing on Vincent Mosco’s political economy of communication, the article analyses how corporatisation, securitisation and institutional governance constrain student expression while privileging market and security logics. From a Mosco-inspired perspective, the encampments reveal communication as a substantive democratic right – one enacted through deliberation, dissent and collective action against concentrated institutional power. </p>
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www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... As the Trump regime continues its ideological attacks on museums and museum staff (most recently at the Art Institute of Chicago) fight for their jobs, this article from our latest, and last issue could not be more topical. See less
reposted by request (the sound quality is not wonderful and the powerpoint slides are not shown) but this is one of the most concise summaries of what Ursula Huws has drawn from Marx www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywv...
Ursula Huws -- The Household in Marx’s 'Capital'
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Latest blog post by Ursula Huws - a contribution to the debate about the future of adult social care in the UK and how Andy Burnham might address it ursulahuws.wpcomstaging.com/2026/07/20/r...
Reinventing social care
With a new prime minister committed both to devolution to regions and to developing a national plan for adult social care and the launch of a public debate on this topic, it seems to be an opportun…
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My little book of clerihews is now published and available from www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/the...
The clerihews of Winter, 2024-2025
In her day job, Ursula Huws is a researcher, lecturer, writer and editor, based in London, who blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. In November 2024, after the victory of Donald Trump in the US presiden...
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enjoyed reading ursula huws about this recently
Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe fact that this radical economic transformation in the US took place during the hegemony of orthodox neoliberalism meant that the braking mechanisms and social welfare provisions were taken off the table in terms of the era's political economy.
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... Topical article about the new military-industrial-communications complex by Patricia Mazepa from our latest and last issue
Analysis is pointed and language is unusually accessible. Critique of techno-optimist mythology is fun! Worth a read and cite.
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation@wolgjournal.bsky.social · last wk.important article by Tanner Mirrlees in the latest issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation looks at the relationship between Trump and global capitalism in the current era www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
important article by Tanner Mirrlees in the latest issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation looks at the relationship between Trump and global capitalism in the current era www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
Published at last! the final issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation is now online at www.scienceopen.com/.../cdba69db.... This is a special issue that commemorates the legacy of Vincent Mosco and shows the relevance of his ideas for understanding the new world order
This article brings up something progressives can’t ignore: not all UBI is the same. One version adds cash on top of public services. Another uses cash to justify cutting them. As support for UBI grows, which version are we fighting for? truthout.org/articles/bac...
Backing for UBI Is Growing. Let’s Push for the Most Progressive Version of It.
Universal basic income is not a panacea, and some versions are libertarian — but a good version is worth fighting for.
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Latest blog post by Ursula Huws - a contribution to the debate about the future of adult social care in the UK and how Andy Burnham might address it ursulahuws.wpcomstaging.com/2026/07/20/r...
Reinventing social care
With a new prime minister committed both to devolution to regions and to developing a national plan for adult social care and the launch of a public debate on this topic, it seems to be an opportun…
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We are pleased to share a truly international selection of articles on political economy, indentured labour and domestic work here www.plutojournals.com/why-capitali... from our latest publications @wrpe.bsky.social @wolgjournal.bsky.social. Our journals are Diamond Open Access on ScienceOpen.
Bryan's article is not only a great read but also highly topical - offering a glimpse into the hidden labour processes in the elite world that surrounds the likes of Epstein and the (con) artist formerly known as Prince Andrew
Bryan Boyle@bryanboyle.bsky.social · 6mo agoVery happy to be a part of this special issue on “Hierarchies of Domesticity – Spatial and Social Boundaries", which is out now in @wolgjournal.bsky.social! www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu...
here's the link - apologies for accidentally deleting previously www.scienceopen.com/collection/c...
Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
<p><em>Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation</em> is a bi-annual peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Pluto Journals that focuses on the new global division of labour.</p><p>Print ISSN: 1745-641X / e-ISSN: 1745-6428</p><p>WOLG community & membership. Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation (WOLG) is more than just a journal. It has evolved into an extended global community of scholars interested in developing a dialogue about the changing nature of work and labour organisation that crosses disciplinary and national boundaries. Become an individual member or instutional member to join and support the WOLG community.</p>
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation@wolgjournal.bsky.social · 6mo agoLatest issue now published!
Latest issue now published!
Latest blogpost from Ursula Huws
Latest blog post from Ursula Huws ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/h...
Happy Holidays
Usually at this time of the year I post a picture on this blog in lieu of a Christmas card. Very often this is a picture I have taken during the course of the previous year, selected sometimes for …
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Wide ranging conversation with Valentin Niebler and Kenzo Soares about changes in tech workers' identities and class consciousness in the current conjuncture (and some reflections on how this has changed over the last 50 years) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oow...
Niebler & Soares Seto speak with U. Huws on how tech work is changing in the new global conjuncture
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My latest blog post ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/t...
The perverse effects of outsourcing health and care services
As my last post indicated, I am currently experiencing very personally and directly the impacts of the outsourcing of health and social services that has been taking place in the UK since the 1980s…
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How do engineers and tech workers cope with the digital transformation, how far do they show similarities or different es? New paper by my colleagues and me in www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... @ursulahuws.bsky.social
An uncertain elite : Professional differences and similarities between engineers and tech workers in times of digital transformation
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d1373472e208">The digital transformation of industries has given rise to new categories of tech workers, such as sof...
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