Afterword to Crisis and Sequels: capitalism and the new economic turmoil since 2007 by Martin Thomas (Brill, 2017)
Like every crisis, 2008’s surprised. Some of us failed to see how turmoil originating in finance, and apparently in a limited area of finance to do with the US [...]
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Conference on Quantified Workers in Precarity and Two Book Launches
Friday 13 October 2017. Sign up for a ticket on Eventbrite
Dr Phoebe Moore p.moore@mdx.ac.uk , organised with Christiana Rose c.rose@ mdx.ac.uk, School of Law, Middlesex University
Final event for Dr Moore’s [...]
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Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?
My next book is about to come out. Published by Routledge, this is the summation of about four years of [...]
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“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge,” said Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, in his speech to the country’s Constituent Assembly as the midnight hour approached on the fourteenth of August 1947. The following day, [...]
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In January 2016, Henry Ramos Allup, president of the then newly installed Venezuelan parliament, hastened to make a demonstration of institutional power. The opposition bloc had obtained a strong victory in the legislative elections of 2015, and the veteran political leader of Acción [...]
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China in the Neoliberal World Order
My argument in the preceding posts has been that uneven and combined development is not only a universal phenomenon under conditions of capitalist modernity, but an ongoing one which will only cease when the last peasant has been pushed or pulled [...]
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In difficult times, life histories by grassroots Venezuelan activists illuminate valuable lessons from the Bolivarian Revolution
There have recently been a number of pieces featured in NACLA and the progressive media outlet Jacobin evaluating the Nicolás Maduro government in Venezuela [...]
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Our lives are shaped by manifestations of a working and applied ideology, and they embody a preference for certain explanations. This leads us to think about ideology. The idea of ideology involves the claim that people’s ideas, beliefs, attitudes and values cannot be taken for granted, but [...]
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