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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

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Are we living in a Usurocracy? How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash

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How BC labour laws enabled historic organizing winsโ€”and what comes next Article by Vรฉronique Sioufi and Iglika Ivanova Vรฉronique Sioufi is the racial equity researcher and policy analyst and Iglika Ivanova is a senior economist at BC Policy Solutions. British Columb...

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Lessons from the gig economy for transforming public services Services like cleaning are increasingly outsourced via online platforms

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31.08.2025 09:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Call for papers: special issue on the legacy of Vincentย Mosco Special issue ofย Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisationย onย Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Moscoโ€™s Political Economy of Communication The theme Whenโ€ฆ

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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 1980sโ€ฆ

Latest blog post from Ursula Huws ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/t...

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Another title in our seemingly unstoppable Dynamics of Virtual Work book series

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Raising Class Consciousness This book reveals how technology shapes power dynamics, empowering workers to reclaim agency amidst disruption and fostering critical perspectives.

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22.11.2025 04:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 1980sโ€ฆ

Latest blog post from Ursula Huws ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/t...

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Back I am now back at my desk after an eventful few weeks. The horrible experience described in my most recent blog has yet to be resolved but has faded into relative insignificance. On September 5th I โ€ฆ

Latest blog post from Ursula Huws ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/b...

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Judge rules Trump administration can not withhold funding from Harvard The Trump administration illegally withheld federal funding for alleged antisemitism violations, a federal judge in Boston ruled.

Breaking news: The Trump administration illegally withheld billions from Harvard University for alleged violations of rules against antisemitism, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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Data Centers Could Threaten Wisconsin Water, Report Warns Could withdraw some 150 billion gallons of water nationally over next 5 years.

Data Centers Could Threaten Wisconsin Water, Report Warns

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Call for papers: special issue on the legacy of Vincentย Mosco Special issue ofย Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisationย onย Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Moscoโ€™s Political Economy of Communication The theme Whenโ€ฆ

wolg.wordpress.com/special-issu...

02.09.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lessons from the gig economy for transforming public services Services like cleaning are increasingly outsourced via online platforms

www.salon.com/2020/09/18/l...

31.08.2025 09:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How BC labour laws enabled historic organizing winsโ€”and what comes next Article by Vรฉronique Sioufi and Iglika Ivanova Vรฉronique Sioufi is the racial equity researcher and policy analyst and Iglika Ivanova is a senior economist at BC Policy Solutions. British Columb...

bcpolicy.ca/2025/07/31/u...

31.08.2025 09:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Il cybertariato nella globalizzazione
Recensione ragionata del libro di Ursula Huws, Il lavoro nellโ€™economia digitale globale. Il cybertariato diventa maggiorenne, Punto Rosso, 2021. di F. Barbetta Il cybertariato รจ una realtร  nella societร  contemporanea. Mentre si discute della fine del (1/2)

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howardzinn.org To inspire people to read, write, and make history.

This is where I was first introduced to Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, James Baldwin, Naomi Klein, Mike Davis, Leo Panitch, Tariq Ali, Ursula Huws and so many other great thinkers.

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05.01.2025 23:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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TEKRAR BASIM | Kรผresel Dijital Ekonomide Emek

Ursula Huws, gรผnรผmรผz kรผresel kapitalist ekonomisinin farklฤฑ gรถrรผnรผmleriyle ilgili kฤฑลŸkฤฑrtฤฑcฤฑ analiziyle, son yฤฑllarฤฑn iktisadi, kรผltรผrel ve siyasi olgularฤฑnฤฑ bir araya getiriyor.
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04.04.2025 17:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus. Buch von Tanja Carstensen, Simon Schaupp, Sebastian Sevignani (... Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus: Arbeit und ร–konomie, Politik und Subjekt. Buch (suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft) von Tanja Carstensen, Simon Schaupp, Sebastian Sevignani auf suhrkamp.de bestel...

Die Vorfreude steigt!
In wenigen Tagen erscheint unser Band zum digitalen Kapitalismus bei @suhrkamp.de
Beitrรคge von Ursula Huws, Emma Dowling, Helen Hester, Kylie Jarrett, Oliver Nachtwey, Nick Srnicek, Philipp Staab, Jamie Woodcock, Christian Fuchs uvm.
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09.11.2023 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 74    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Part of the way thst Capitalism rescues itself from crisis is by commodifying new things and new areas of life -Ursula Huws
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"Information capitalism, surveillance capitalism...capitalism remains capitalism, it seems to me." --Ursula Huws at ETUI today

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Are we living in a Usurocracy? How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash

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Right to Food UK Conference: โ€˜Hunger is a political choice' Food insecurity, malnutrition & hunger continue to increase as a result of further cuts to welfare & poverty pay. Our food system is broken.

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How the gig economy conquered Britain and stoked the migration crisis Uber and Deliveroo have transformed the UK, but concerns are growing that they attract illegal workers

You heard it from the Telegraph. it's the Tories' fault! www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

10.08.2025 06:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Delivery riders at mercy of algorithms and immigration raids Migrants denied right to work turn to exploitative delivery apps to earn cash, but the government is cracking down

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E1: Punjab to Potsdamer Platz Delivery Charge ยท Episode

Fresh!

The first episode of the second season of Delivery Charge. It's about migrants from South Asia doing food delivery work in Berlin.

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AI, Platforms and the Future of Work - Reshaping Work

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The landlord gutting Americaโ€™s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Are we living in a Usurocracy? How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash

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The Purpose Of Light | 11 July - 18 September 2025 - Overview The Purpose of Protest: A Testament to Solidarity In every generation, there comes a moment when silence becomes impossible. When injustice speaks too loudly to be ignored, when grief becomes collecti...

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How Employers Have Become Part of a Persecution Campaign: The Katherine Grzejszczak case

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