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Enjoying the woke wars? I was on @thedigradio.bsky.social with @danieldenvir.bsky.social, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social to think on MAGA racism, identity politics, liberalism, and the anti-woke left. We aren’t really having any of it. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

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Ja, men Foodora har flyttat arbetskraften från moderbolaget till en bulvan med namnet Foodora Logistics AB, och transport tecknade avtal med denna bulvan när avtalet förnyades 2023.

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Ny forskning visar att facken måste satsa på de unga "I de flesta europeiska länder är det så att om man inte gått med i facket runt 30–35 års ålder, så gör man det inte heller senare i livet. När färre går med under det här kritiska fönstret sjunker anslutningsgraden över tid, säger Jesper Prytz."

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Dr. Kristin Jesnes med gode analyser av Wolt-rettsaken, plattformarbeid og algoritmisk styring i Norge: frifagbevegelse.no/loaktuelt/sy...

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Presented my work at De La Salle University in Manila today. Thanks for having me, @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social and thanks to your bright students for their pertinent questions!

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To av tre på kontoret leser denne om dagen, «Den norske arbeidslivsmodellen». Hvor er vi nå og hvor går vi hen? Tjue av Fafos arbeidslivsforskere om alt fra organisasjonsgrad til Foodora.

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As a result of Trump’s attacks on development aid, The Norwegian Refugee Council has been forced to fire 1,700 employees—half its staff—and "suspend essential aid" reaching hundreds of thousands of people in nearly 20 countries. Will others step up and fill the void? www.reuters.com/world/norweg...

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New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

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A victim in #Sweden's worst mass murder, Aziza came in 90s from Kurdistan. Trained as a civil engineer and high school math teacher. Taught math for 20 years, the last seven years at Campus Risbergska where she died. Put math lessons on YouTube in Kurdish w/120,000 followers.

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Hurra for Kristin Jesnes, who brilliantly defended her phd thesis at Gothenburg University today!

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Michael Burawoy is one of the reasons I came to love sociology. I admired him so much, both for his scholarship and activism, but also his deep humanity. It was a privilege to know him and the many brilliant students he produced. What a profound loss to the world we have suffered today. RIP Michael.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

I don’t know how to process the loss of Michael Burawoy. He supported me in ways I will be grateful for until I die. His kindness was transformative. Not only will his ideas live on in our brains, his character will live in our hearts! Michael Burawoy, forever.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Hamnarbetarförbundet får rätt i AD att driva blockad, AD undrar vilka företag som ska blockeras. Facket lämnar en lista på dessa. Då blir försvaret oroliga kontaktar hamnen som då avskedar fackets viceordförande och polisanmäler honom för brott mot rikets säkerhet. Vad i hela friden är detta?

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The couriers’ case against Wolt Norway started in court yesterday and will run initially run until Friday. The couriers demand employment and economic compensation of 1 M NOK frifagbevegelse.no/loaktuelt/wo...

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Modige Wolt-bud i kamp for faste ansettelser! I dag starter rettssaken mot Wolt i Oslo tinghus. Saken er et viktig ledd i den lange kampen mot løsarbeidersamfunnet - og for at arbeidsfolk skal behandles skikkelig. Lykke til de neste fem dagene!

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Wrote about the gig economy ride-hail model, its metastasis across the economy, and a brilliant Roosevelt Institute report on gig nursing that came out last month. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ubers-bast...

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Neat table from the conclusion of Carlotta Perez's _Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital_. Financial innovations sorted from most helpful to the real economy to most parasitic on it

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Är Spotifys listor för bra för vårt eget bästa? Jag läser nya "Mood machine", besöker Daniel Eks hemort Rågsved och pratar med artister och lyssnare. Läs gärna! 👇

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property www.404media.co/openai-furio...

submitted 29 days ago • 127 comments

“Strikes and Social Conflicts in Hostile Environments” Conference - International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts @iassc.bsky.social call for papers: iassc-net.org

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It's objectively funny to see DeepSeek — an open source, high performing AI model trained by a Chinese startup for less than $6 million — wipe $1 trillion off tech stocks only days after Trump, OpenAI, and SoftBank announce their $500 billion Stargate boondoggle.

submitted 31 days ago • 84 comments

Our analysis of Nordic taxi and food delivery industries conceptualizes four trajectories: Evasion, disruption, adaption and market exit. They vary across industries, types of regulations and time, showing how platform work emerged and developed within the Nordic model. tidsskrift.dk/njwls/articl...

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“What sets the Laval case apart from unionization drives in other parts of the world is a unique provision in Quebec’s labour code: employers are legally required to reach a first collective agreement with a union, once it exists.” Amazon is leaving Quebec to avoid a collective agreement.

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Together with four couriers, Norwegian union Fellesforbundet is suing Wolt for misclassifying them as self-employed contractors. The court case is scheduled to start in February, but Wolt announced yesterday that the couriers will be offered permanent employment: frifagbevegelse.no/loaktuelt/wo...

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Our analysis of Nordic taxi and food delivery industries conceptualizes four trajectories: Evasion, disruption, adaption and market exit. They vary across industries, types of regulations and time, showing how platform work emerged and developed within the Nordic model. tidsskrift.dk/njwls/articl...

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Given the perception of the Nordic model as protecting workers from poor conditions, the rise gig platforms can appear puzzling. In this new article, @alfonsson.bsky.social, S Rasmussen, J Immonen and I explore the platforms' Nordic trajectories and what this tells us about the Nordic model today.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Obs att det antagligen är över tusen personer som dör av jobbet varje år (stressrelaterat, cancer m.m.). Sen är det cirka 50 varje år som dör av olyckor på jobbet. www.lo.se/start/det_go...

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🚨ACADEMIC MARXISTS OF THE WORLD UNITE AND SAFE THE DATE!🚨 Our 10th(!) International Marxist Conference will be held at this beautiful campus at Aarhus University the 10th-11th of October 2025. We are once again hoping to see ALL the Marxist researchers and your 💥presentations in #DenMarx this year😍

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

Husk denne setningen hver gang du leser om KI

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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

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Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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📉 0,7 % av Oljefondet er investert i 63 selskaper som bidrar til Israels ulovlige okkupasjon av Palestina🍉 🖊Krev endring – signer vår og @fagforbundet.bsky.social sin underskriftskampanje her: fagforbundet.no/oljefondet

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How do customers' abusive behavior of frontline workers play out? Michael Maffie @cornelluniversity.bsky.social shows how the “five-star” evaluation system enables different forms of customer abuse & how workers resist this configuration of control. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

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En av årets gleder har vært å gi ut denne boken, som jeg har redigert sammen med Runar Døving og Helene Tronstad Moe, med bidrag fra mange kritiske: @bentsofus.bsky.social, I @hjertaker.bsky.social, @kftangen.bsky.social, Tian Sørhaug, C @sorhaug.bsky.social, Anne Lene Borgan og Johannes Bennetzen

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Today is my final day at New York Public Library and the Wertheim Study. What a place this is!

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

every university that uses OpenAI should cower in fucking shame

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The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters. Let's fucking go! 🔥

submitted 71 days ago • 55 comments

Uber and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi each donated $1 million to US President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund, a company spokesperson told @Reuters reut.rs/3P33GAa

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Det fejlslagne udbud på havvindmølleparker afslører en dybere krise i de grønne energiinvesteringer. Verdens kapitalmarkederhar set på klodens fremtid og konkluderet, at den er en dårliginvestering Jeg har en analyse i @politiken.dk (teksten kommer nedenfor)

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Our Fragile Juggernaut episode on labor in World War II is here, with the legendary @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social. What happens when you get full employment, price controls, mass migration to cities, and the integration of labor into the total war mobilization? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time. The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout. Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...

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🚨📃👀 In "A step up?" @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social investigates "Why taxi platform drivers in Oslo, Norway started to drive" and find that despite long hours the drivers see the flexibility and potentially high income of the 'gig' as an attractive labour market strategy. OA👇 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

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We are 531 academics in Norway demanding that our employers stop using suppliers that profit from, and contribute to apartheid and the illegal occupation of Palestine. www.khrono.no/vi-vil-ikke-...

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In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5

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BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.

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