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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Erin Torkelson, Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers - @dukepress.bsky.social, May 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/predatory-we...

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Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My book is out today! Based on long-term ethnographic research in the Czech city of Ostrava, it theorises the link between political economy & anti-Roma racism. It offers a critique of the low-cost labour regime, which is the backbone of Czech manufacturing production tinyurl.com/ymvf6kby

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Manchester University Press - Surplus lives under racial capitalism

Surplus lives under racial capitalism - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Surplus lives under racial capitalism by Barbora Cernusáková

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The Weekly Read is "From 'Golden Venture' to Golden Visas: The Reenchantment of Culture and Flexible Citizenship in a Nativist World" by Pál Nyíri and Fanni Beck: buff.ly/4jQ6IpE The article is published in positions: asia critique 32:4: buff.ly/40Fseo8

Cover of Expansive Trajectories: Remapping Transnationalism in the Global China Era an issue of positions: asia critique. The background is a solid purple color, with color photograph centered in the middle. The photograph is of a patchwork of fabric, similar to a tent, or kites.

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

My new book Cancelled Futures is out with @princetonupress.bsky.social September 8th Based on 62 interviews with working-class youth living in East London, Rochdale & Morecambe it examines how race, class, gender and place shape how young people envision their transition to work shorturl.at/hVEL7

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Cancelled Futures

How race, class, gender, and place shape the ways working-class young people in Britain envision their transition from education to work

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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This new book features: @meghanetinsley.bsky.social on decolonialisation; @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social & Siobhan O'Neill on racialised injustice & @bcernusa.bsky.social & Bhallamudi on technology & work. All welcome at the book launch on 8 April!

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Surplus Lives: Out on the 28 April manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181855/ The book builds an argument that the introduction of capitalism in the 1990s Czechia overlapped with the rise of racialised disposability of Roma workers. @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

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Manchester University Press - Surplus lives under racial capitalism

Surplus lives under racial capitalism - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Surplus lives under racial capitalism by Barbora Cernusáková

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"Introduction of "dynamic wages" based on productivity, allowing salaries to fluctuate from month to month..." & more

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thi wurd @thiwurd.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Tomorrow (Monday 2 Feb, 8-9pm (GMT). £5.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

One of the best films released this year. #FilmSky

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Surplus Lives under Racial Capitalism: Roma in Post‑Socialist Czechia available for pre‑order (out: April 2026). Drawing on long-term ethnogprahy, legal and policy analysis it traces how Roma became the racialised surplus populations in East Central Europe: lnkd.in/e7wWsyPE

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

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 buff.ly/289QEmv

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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...

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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... www.npr.org/sections/all...

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Cate Le Bon - Home to You (Official Video)

YouTube video by Cate Le Bon

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/08/2025

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!

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"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."

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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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Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 29/09/2025

“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

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

"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...

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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 ...

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

"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."

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"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" www.ft.com/content/7cee...

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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

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

"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."

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🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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.

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"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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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾 "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. dandelion.events/e/no-release...

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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/...

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‘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...

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Ari Ezra Waldman @ariezra.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 16/07/2025

🚨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...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 03/07/2025

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...

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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...

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

"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."

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 27/06/2025

“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

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Next week at @isa-sociology.org Forum I'll talk about "The dynamics of racialised labour disciplining in East Central Europe". Together Angela Kóczé we discuss the tension between the anti-immigrant & racist narratives & the imperatives of the political economy/ labour shortages. shorturl.at/9PPtV

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New Dynamics of Racialised Labour Disciplining in Central and Eastern Europe

New dynamics of racialised labour disciplining in Central and Eastern Europe Ou...

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Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Intel says it's targeting layoffs between 15% and 20% in its Foundry business next month -- cuts that will have a profound effect on manufacturing and research. Other business units plan major cuts, too, but the depth of those layoffs aren't yet clear.

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Intel will lay off 15% to 20% of its factory workers, memo says

Next month’s layoffs will take place at Intel factories around the world but could have an especially big effect in Oregon.

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

"What once appeared as disconnected struggles—between truckers in Indonesia, data-centre workers in Malaysia, and platform couriers in Bangkok—are now increasingly visible as part of interlinked systems of governance and control."

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

In this article in the New Political Economy, I discuss the extractive & disciplinary power of household debt over Roma workers in Czechia. Drawing on ethnography, I show how the unpayable debt becomes a mechanism to discipline labour as a whole. shorturl.at/VOQrB @uomsociology.bsky.social

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Disciplining of Roma workers through predatory debt in Czechia

Looking at the entrapment of Roma workers in unpayable debts in Czechia, this article discusses the relationship between racialisation, predatory debt and labour disciplining. Drawing on long-term ...

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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"Rather than inducing mass unemployment, the more immediate effects of generative AI are likely to mirror broader trends of job transformation already unfolding today, namely de-skilling and surveillance."

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Rina Chandran @rinachandran.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese semiconductor factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, unequal treatment and the threat of deportation, report Hsiuwen Liu and @michaelbeltran.bsky.social for @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/filipin...

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Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories

A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.

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