@bigmacca.bsky.social
Industrial relations, political economy and sociology of work.
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
05.11.2025 12:13 — 👍 19890 🔁 5901 💬 266 📌 744Happy to have been part of this collective endeavour to understand what's happening in the EU's political economy - check out our chapter: "A lasting legacy? A critical political economy perspective on
Berlusconism and its afterlives"
Thanks Ian!
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Thanks to @graceblakeley.substack.com for the endorsment!
31.10.2025 11:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our introduction is open to read here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
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Great to see this collective volume edited with @abieler.bsky.social published! It critically engages with the concept of polycrisis, while building on the illustrious tradition of critical political economy of European integration
The book is available here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/cri...
Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
if anything, the EU has been very active in using the Draghi's report as a justification to undermine the little corporate sustainability legislation that it had just introduced
17.09.2025 13:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Online workshop: Urban social movements as extended class actors
Join us on 25 September to discuss Sarah Uhlmann's article about struggles over social reproduction!
With discussants @miria-gam.bsky.social and @bonfert.bsky.social
Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
See you there!
The open access version of the paper is available here: ricerca.sns.it/handle/11384...
10.09.2025 15:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking at the history of neoliberalism, this is not a novelty: ‘Reaganomics’ combined cuts to the welfare state with an augmented military budget (3)
10.09.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0![Ola Källenius, chief executive of Mercedes-Benz, which has plants in the US, said on Monday that he was not concerned about broader impact from the arrests: "You have to respect rules and regulations. We do that and we will continue to invest [in the US]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ri3ciinceco5himlcykqomh7/bafkreig6vfia5xooxi42ygfdzwxs5vm7rnrvqa6lkpd6xfv2knvbp3v4t4@jpeg)
Ola Källenius, chief executive of Mercedes-Benz, which has plants in the US, said on Monday that he was not concerned about broader impact from the arrests: "You have to respect rules and regulations. We do that and we will continue to invest [in the US]."
German carmaker when Korean carmaker gets raided by secret police: “Not concerned at all. Actually hell yes! Gotta follow the rules!!“
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This is visible also in the most recent developments, with the renewed obsession with competitiveness that is leading to a new wave of deregulation, and the increase in EU-backed military spending (2)
08.09.2025 15:51 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0With @gemmagasseau.bsky.social we have a new short piece in Capital & Class, where we analyse continuties and changes in European economic governance. We argue that, despite the changes since the pandemic, EU integration remains centered on neoliberalism (1)
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anyone remember skill-biased technical change?
18.07.2025 11:39 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0check it out!
13.06.2025 08:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0and here with the correct linl: mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour...
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The new issue of the Global Labour Journal
is out, and it includes an article I wrote with Francesco Massimo and Angelo Moro on tariffs and the US labor movement
ttps://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/6728
June 4, "EU Industrial Policy. Crowding in Financial Capital, Crowding Out Democratic Oversight". Angela Wigger, Radboud University
In our next MAX CPE workshop @angelawigger.bsky.social will present her paper on "Delegating Decarbonization: How InvestEU Empowers Financial Capital at the Expense of a Democratic Governance of EU Industrial Policy".
📅 Wednesday June 4, 13:00 CEST
📍 online
Sign up: s.gwdg.de/rXs4Xn
Without Water, We Have Nothing
Blue Community Ambassador Gemma Gasseau is organizing an online workshop with Blue Community Ambassador Caitling Schroering.
Online workshop on the 29th May at 18.00 CEST
blue-community.net/2...
At @sns.it in Florence we are hosting a debate between Wolfgang Streeck and Beverly Silver on Monday 19 at 16.00 CET. There will be also the possibility to join online!
www.sns.it/en/node/768394
"Markets are crashing because today, markets are based on the stock value of companies who today embedded are embedded in modes of production that are bad for the United States."
If you're surprised by Rubio sounding like a Marxist-theory-of-financialization guy, you forget that in 2019... 1/2
Oggi sul @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social con Angelo Moro e Francesco Massimo torniamo a parlare di dazi in USA, analizzando le risposte dei big dell'auto (con breve chiosa finale sul sindacato)
ilmanifesto.it/dazi-i-big-d...
Less than a week left to apply to our upcoming conference, "Reclaiming power: Bridging Social Movements and Industrial Relations in Labour Mobilisation" at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy, on May 26 and 27.
All info here: cosmos.sns.it/news/call-fo...
Con Francesco Massimo e Angelo Moro sul @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social di oggi analizziamo criticamente la posizione del sindacato Usa verso i dazi di Trump
ilmanifesto.it/si-ai-piani-...
The main consequence of the aggressive trade policy pursued by the Trump regime is the acceleration of South-South economic integration and cooperation.
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31.03.2025 20:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our co-editor-in-chief @monicaclua.bsky.social is delivering the keynote lecture of the Economists without borders conference in Madrid this evening 👇
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Less than a week left to submit an abstract for our conference 'Countervailing Platform Power', Florence, 26-27 June. We've now added info on the four great keynote speakers @veenadubal.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @trebors2025.bsky.social & Vasilis Kostakis
www.sns.it/it/evento/co...
This morning, FACULTY UNIONS led by @aaup.bsky.social sued the Trump administration over the unlawful funding cuts at Columbia. We will not let the federal government use coercion to rob us of academic freedom and critical research!
So proud of my union!
protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
