Barbora Cernusakova

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...

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

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Fancy writing a review? ;-)

Thanks Ida!

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...

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

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

YouTube video by Cate Le Bon Cate Le Bon - Home to You (Official Video)

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...

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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!

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

It's a great piece!

"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."

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."

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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

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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

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 ...

"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...

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."

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

"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"

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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."

Schwarz-weiß Foto von Herbert Marcuse, der lächelnd eine Zigarre in der Hand hält. Darüber liegt ein Zitat von ihm: „Dass [die Arbeiterklasse] mehr zu verlieren hat als ihre Ketten, mag trivial sein, ist aber gleichwohl richtig.“ – Herbert Marcuse in „Konterrevolution und Revolte“. Oben links das Logo des Podcasts „tl;dr“. Unten Text: „Neue Folge ‹TL;DR› – Folge 53 des Theoriepodcasts ‹tl;dr› der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung ist jetzt online – Host Alex Demirović spricht mit Peter-Erwin Jansen“.

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."

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"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.

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Sectoral variations in the use of algorithmic management across Europe. Most prevalent in financial services:
- 35% workers report that it's used to monitor their work performance:
- 34 % report AM used to *allocate* their work tasks.

European Working Conditions Survey 2024
tinyurl.com/4rhbfh4n

"Debt redistributes wealth from the working poor to the rentiers, but under the auspices of necessity."

‘Left-behind’ amid the ‘boom’? Large-scale green technology projects and reinforced peripheralisation in Eastern Germany - Hannes Langguth, 2025 Driven by the recent investment surge in large-scale green technology projects, the European Union’s shift towards climate neutrality has sparked new developmen...

Hannes Langguth's research of a new EV battery gigafactory in Thuringia (Germany) challenges the view that transnational investments in strategic production necessarily benefits the 'left-behind' spaces. A complex explanation is offered:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This new book on the theory and method of law and technology by the brilliant @rcalo.bsky.social is so important! Congrats Ryan!

🚨New video!

Communities impacted by green hydrogen projects in South Africa finally had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission for the first time.

🤥 Incredibly disappointing: the Commission denied the EU was involved in any of the projects shown

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...

Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-between Doing Good Social Science takes readers on a personal and thought-provoking journey and empowers readers to become unshakeable, free-thinking scholars. Drawing from nearly two decades of experience in...

Do you know anyone who would like to review my book for an excellent methods journals? If so please tag them or DM me. It would be perfrct for a PhD student. Info on the book here: www.routledge.com/Doing-Good-S....

ArcelorMittal withdraws from green steel transformation – DW – 07/01/2025 ArcelorMittal has withdrawn from its green steel projects in Germany. The company says its former goals are no longer feasible in the current market environment. Meanwhile, workers fear for their jobs...

Steel maker ArcelorMittal has pulled the plug on its green steel plans, despite the offer of €1.3bn in subsidies. It claims it didn't make business sense.

It begs the question: can the market deliver on the green transition - and if not, what other model do we need?

www.dw.com/en/arcelormi...

"Of the 29 healthcare workers in our study, 14 say they could not make a living if on-demand nursing apps were their only source of income. Four workers earn so little that they qualify for Medicare or Medicaid. Two others, rather ironically given their profession, had no health insurance at all."

“Including labour law in any 28th regime would allow rich tech-bros to completely ignore the rights to fair pay and decent conditions which workers have won at national level over the last century" ⚠️

#28thRegime #deregulation