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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard

@sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social
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Researcher, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research @fafoinfo.bsky.social. Taxis, platforms, capitalism, technology, work, unions, ethnography, social theory

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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New article on what Johanne Huseby and I term "platform problems" (in Norwegian), instances when the platform technology doesn't work. Drawing on case studies from the Norwegian taxi and cleaning industries, we show how these reveal the platform models' power asymmetries www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...
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Plattformproblemer: når teknologien ikke virker. Eksempler fra plattformarbeid i Norge
Forskning på plattformarbeid vektlegger først og fremst hvordan digitale plattformer lykkes i å organisere transaksjoner og styre arbeidsprosesser. Denne artikkelen undersøker «plattformproblemer», ti...
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pontus @pntsns.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Om man vill förstå grundproblemet som stämningen av Invoicery nu försöker lösa genom förändrat rättspraxis kan man läsa denna rapport jag skrev i våras. Rapporten är politikertillvänd, skriven för att föreslå vilka förändringar i lagstiftningen som krävs om den arbetsrättsliga vägen inte funkar.
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Arbetsgivarmålvakterna och det svenska plattformsarbetet
En rapport om plattformsarbete, arbetsgivaransvar och hur dagens konstruktion försvårar fackligt inflytande och kollektivavtal
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 15/08/2026
Food delivery workers will finally get an earnings floor and basic protections from Monday. Years of warnings that regulating gig work would send prices soaring now look increasingly doubtful, Alex Veen, Caleb Goods and Tom Barratt write. #auspol #GigEconomy #WorkersRights
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Gig workers get new rights – without the catastrophe platforms predicted
New minimum standards will give food delivery workers an earnings floor, accident cover and clearer workplace protections. The changes also test years of warnings that regulating gig work would send delivery prices soaring.
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The final article from my PhD is published in EID. It explores how taxi platform drivers experience algorithmic management, finding that while it is an opaque, unpredictable, and non-negotiable form of control, drivers do not necessarily see it as such. I highlight two explanations of this tension.
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The final article from my PhD is published in EID. It explores how taxi platform drivers experience algorithmic management, finding that while it is an opaque, unpredictable, and non-negotiable form of control, drivers do not necessarily see it as such. I highlight two explanations of this tension.
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Wolt couriers in Norway today lost their case for employment against the platform. The court emphasized the couriers’ flexibility in arguing that they should not be regarded as employees. The couriers and their union might appeal the case to the Supreme Court. frifagbevegelse.no/loaktuelt/sy...
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Full seier til Wolt i lagmannsretten
Wolt-budene er å regne som oppdragstakere og har ikke krav på faste ansettelser, konkluderer lagmannsretten.
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Wolt couriers in Norway today lost their case for employment against the platform. The court emphasized the couriers’ flexibility in arguing that they should not be regarded as employees. The couriers and their union might appeal the case to the Supreme Court. frifagbevegelse.no/loaktuelt/sy...
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Full seier til Wolt i lagmannsretten
Wolt-budene er å regne som oppdragstakere og har ikke krav på faste ansettelser, konkluderer lagmannsretten.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
“Even though Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared a state of emergency that banned all but essential vehicles like ambulances, police cars and utility trucks from the roads, the 80,000 deliveristas were among those exempt.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/n...
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Even in a Blizzard, Food Delivery in New York City Continues
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Fafo Institutt for arbeidslivs- og velferdsforskning @fafoinfo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
«The question (...) is not whether the Nordic countries can regulate gig work. They clearly can. The real question is political: whom the Nordic model is designed to protect — and whom it is willing to leave behind.» @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social i fellesnordisk kronikk i @jacobinmag.bsky.social.
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How Gig Capitalism Came to Thrive in Nordic Labor Markets
Platform companies haven’t overthrown Nordic labor institutions. But they have navigated around them, growing by exploiting the Nordic model’s uneven and conditional protections.
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
How did gig work gain foothold in the supposedly well-regulated and highly organized Nordic labor markets? @alfonsson.bsky.social, Stine Rasmussen, Jere Immonen and I have a piece in @jacobinmag.bsky.social arguing that this is much less of a puzzle than it might appear: jacobin.com/2026/02/nord...
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How Gig Capitalism Came to Thrive in Nordic Labor Markets
Platform companies haven’t overthrown Nordic labor institutions. But they have navigated around them, growing by exploiting the Nordic model’s uneven and conditional protections.
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Basert på rapporten har vi også skrevet en kronikk i dagens Klassekampen der vi diskuterer "bra nok"-prinsippet og hvilke konsekvenser dette kan ha for kulturen, kunstnerisk kvalitet og kunstnernes inntekter. klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...
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«Bra nok?»
Måten kunstig intelligens forstås og vurderes i kunst- og kulturbransjen, betyr mer enn hvor gode modellene egentlig er.
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Ny Fafo-rapport! Vi har undersøkt effektene av KI i kunst- og kulturbransjen i Norge og intervjuet forfattere og musikere om hvordan de bruker og forstår teknologien. Rapporten finnes her: www.fafo.no/images/pub/2...
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
www.fafo.no/arrangemente...
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Fafofrokost med rapportlansering | Hvilke konsekvenser har KI for arbeid i kunst- og kulturbransjen?
Kunstig intelligens (KI) utfordrer etablerte normer og praksiser i kunst- og kulturbransjen. KI-modeller er trent på eksisterende åndsverk og kan brukes til å generere bilder, tekst og musikk. På dett...
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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TNS Community and Supporters Demand: Stop The Cuts!
To President Towers and The New School Board of Trustees: We, the undersigned members of The New School community and supporters, write to demand you put an immediate halt to planned downsizing, layo...
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Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Pandeminivåer på antalet tillgängliga jobb!
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Nok et år har gått, nok en haug med fantastisk norsk sosiologi har blitt publisert. Men hva var best? Norsk sosiologforeningen kårer beste norsk- og engelskspråklige artikkelen publisert av en Norgesbasert sosiolog for 2025. Nominer artikler til meg, first 15 desember. sosiologen.no/foreningen/v...
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Vinterseminaret 2026: Nominer kandidater til priser - Sosiologen
Norsk sosiologforening deler ut hedersprisen, formidlingsprisen og priser til beste artikler når Vinterseminaret går av stabelen i 2026.
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Eivind HM. @eivind1984.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Hvordan stiller forsikringsbransjen seg til kunstig intelligens, egentlig? Hvis en advokat må betale erstatning fordi den har gitt dårlige råd, og advokatens råd baserte seg på KI - vil forsikringen dekke erstatningen, eller vil den mene at det var uaktsomt av advokaten å stole på KIen?
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Fafo and the (MovingSkills) project is recruiting a PhD fellow. 4-year position, good working conditions and environment, and lovely colleagues. Apply and spread in relevant networks! Application deadline 5 Jan. @fafoinfo.bsky.social fafo.no/om-fafo/ledi...
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Fafo søker ph.d.-stipendiat
Er du nysgjerrig på hvordan digitalisering endrer høyere yrkesfaglig utdanning. Ønsker du å bidra til forskning med samfunnsrelevans?
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Worker Info Exchange @workerinfox.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
BREAKING - WIE NL has begun legal action against Uber for collective redress over the unlawful use of algorithmic pay setting systems which badly damaged driver incomes. workerinfoexchange.nl/press-releas...
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Press Release: Drivers in UK and Europe set to sue Uber for unfair pay set by algorithm - Stichting WIE International
Stichting WIE International has launched the Dynamic Pay Claim against Uber, challenging the company’s use of dynamic pay and algorithmic wage-setting. The action seeks to stop Uber’s current pay mode...
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Uber drivers in Bergen (Norway) just announced they are on strike due to Uber's high commission and low prices: www.nrk.no/vestland/ube...
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Uber-sjåfører i Bergen streiker mot dårlige arbeidsvilkår
Skal du ut å reise i dag, kan det bli lang ventetid på Uber i Bergen. Fellesforbundet vil bistå de over femti sjåførene som streiker.
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
After years of mobilization among drivers and a surge in strikes in November, the Kenyan Ministry of Transport announced yesterday that they will require the taxi apps to increase prices to ensure drivers fair pay. eastleighvoice.co.ke/business/242...
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Cab fares to rise as government revises digital taxi rates to cushion drivers
Under the revised structure, vehicles with engines up to 1050cc will earn Sh33.1 per kilometre, up from Sh22, while cars with engines from 1051cc to 1300cc will...
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Hva skjer i drosjenæringen? Jeg har skrevet et lite faktaflak for Fafo Østforum (@fafoinfo.bsky.social) som oppsummerer hva som har skjedd de siste årene og situasjonen i bransjen i dag. Jeg ser særlig på sjåførenes vilkår og betingelser. Les her: www.fafooestforum.no/nyheter/nytt...
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Nytt faktaflak fra Østforum: Hva skjer i drosjenæringen?
I november 2020 ble den norske drosjemarkedsreguleringen liberalisert. Dette har hatt enorme konsekvenser for næringen og sjåførene som jobber der. Disse er delvis knyttet til den nye markedsstrukture...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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blair @blairaf.com · 12/11/2025
Let's not overregulate the doomsday machine we wouldn't want to stifle innovation
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kristin Jesnes @jesnes.bsky.social and Anne Mette Ødegård from @fafoinfo.bsky.social introducing the special session on the #euhorizon project #IntegrateDialogue at #ILERA @durham-university.bsky.social
Researchers presenting at academic conference
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Sammen med gode kollegaer har jeg skrevet en kronikk om den norske arbeidslivsmodellens "randsoner." Vi argumenterer for at dette er et nødvendig begrep for å forstå utviklingen arbeidslivet og hvorfor det er så vanskelig å sikre ordnede forhold i særlige bransjer. frifagbevegelse.no/debatt/rands...
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Randsonen av arbeidslivet – hva skal til for å få ordna forhold?
Nylig lanserte Fafo to rapporter om forholdene i to deler av arbeidslivet, plattformøkonomien og vare- og budbilbransjen.
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Peder Østring @pederoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I am also astonished that Colombian president Gustavo Petro has read the entirety of Marx's Capital three times! What's your excuse?
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Fafo Institutt for arbeidslivs- og velferdsforskning @fafoinfo.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Strømming direkte her fra 09:00 og senere i opptak
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Fafo: Arbeiderne i randsonen: Hvordan sikre varebud-sjåfører og app-arbeidere rettferdige vilkår?
YouTube video by Fafo nett-TV
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Fafo Institutt for arbeidslivs- og velferdsforskning @fafoinfo.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
– Det er en stor nød og desperasjon hos flere av de vi snakker med, sier forskningsleder Kaja Reegård i Fafo.
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Nye funn om budbransjen: – Stor nød og desperasjon
De vasker huset ditt, kjører drosja du tar hjem fra byen og leverer mat på døra. En stor del av Norges «nye underklasse» har en app som sjef, ifølge nye rapporter.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
ICYMI: Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce, with more than 199,000 people pushed out since Jan, per a new report. Nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce gone. “The services that Americans have come to expect are not going to be there.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Pushed Out A 'Stunning' Number Of Federal Workers — And Now We Know Exactly How Many
“We’re seeing the arson of our government,” warned Max Stier of Partnership for Public Service, which has been tracking people's lost jobs since January.
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Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
SWEDEN: Tesla and the union have opened the door to resolutions that do not involve a collective agreement ttps://www.teslarati.com/tesla-sweden-makes-if-metall-union-give-up-600-day-strike/
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Tesla Sweden finally makes IF Metall union give up 600-day strike
Tesla and the union have opened the door to resolutions that do not involve a collective agreement.
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Fantastic article on the contradictions of Norwegian energy policy at home and abroad. The Norwegian state as a global rentier. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier - Yngve Solli Heiret, 2024
This paper explores the global political economy of the relationship between energy, ground rent, and the state. In its role as the ‘nation’s landlord’, the sta...
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Alf Jørgen Schnell @alfjorgen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Nå som valgkampen på ordentlig er i gang, er det på tide å trekke frem denne igjen: Dag Solstad som leser av høyresidens (fravær av) slagord
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Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Apart from it's multi-pronged attack on the state, I shared how Uber is a trend-setter in other ways: “Uber’s personalised wages and prices echo what’s happening with grocery prices, plane tickets, and other goods increasingly being priced with granular data.” www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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Why ‘dynamic pay’ is the new way to rip you off
Workers are being offered personalised payments for each job — but often that means they’re get a smaller piece of the pie
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prada 丰 meinhof @prada-meinhof.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Phil A. Neel launched a substack: “Geopolitics has, quite literally, become a bread-and-butter issue across much of the globe, [...] Whether ecological, economic, or political, it appears that the “planetary” is now, in every sense, immediate.” philneel.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 11/08/2025
Norway should sell the remaining four-fifths of Israeli companies held by its $2 trillion Oil Fund as well. No more material support to the economies of genocidal states. [gift link]
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Norway oil fund sells out of a fifth of Israeli firms amid fierce criticism
Opposition politicians and activists call on $2tn fund to review the 50 Israeli companies still in its portfolio
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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Det kan ikke understreges nok at den systematiske israelske massemord på journalister er unikt i historisk sammenhæng. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime
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kode24.no @kode24.no · 08/08/2025
"Selvfølgelig er teknologibransjen en viktig del av dødsmaskineriet på Gaza. Og da må selvfølgelig de som representerer teknologer mene noe om det." 🤦‍♂️
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– Utviklere har et merkelig forhold til fagforeninger
– Teknologibransjen er en viktig del av dødsmaskineriet. Da må selvfølgelig de som representerer den mene noe, skriver Ole Petter i ukas nyhetsbrev.
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James Farrar @jamesfarrar.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Uber's $20bn share buy back is a MASSIVE transfer of their wage theft from exploited workers to greedy investors. It equates to $2,400 for every rider & driver on the platform or just under the total value of fares collected from passengers in Q2 '25. www.ft.com/content/6643...
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Uber launches $20bn share buyback
Ride-hailing app announces plans after posting upbeat outlook for gross bookings
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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Socialists must plan for the next economic crisis *before* it happen. Otherwise, the ruling class will use it – again – to suppress workers and further destroy nature. This essay – first of two parts – in @journalspectre.bsky.social offers socialist reflections on the coming crisis.
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What Are We Waiting For? – Spectre Journal
This two-part essay draws upon crisis theory and the history of economic crises to reflect on the current turbulence and the next economic crisis. The first part of the essay begins by drawing on the ...
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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 05/08/2025
The Norwegian government will review ownership stakes in Israeli companies by the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund—Norway’s $1.5 trillion 'Oil Fund'—after the newspaper Aftenposten revealed that the fund had increased its holdings in jet engine parts manufacturer Bet Shemesh Engines Ltd.
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Norway Wealth Fund’s Investment in Israeli Company Sparks Backlash
Reports of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund’s investments in an Israeli company linked to the war in Gaza have triggered a political squabble in the Nordic country.
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Hva forteller Bolt, Uber og resten av plattformene om tilstanden i norsk arbeidsliv? I dagens Klassekampen drøfter jeg tre utfordringer disse jobbene illustrerer: sårbare gruppers arbeidsmarkedsmuligheter, regulering av ny teknologi og håndheving av arbeidsretten. klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...
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Plattformene i bakspeilet
Arbeidsforholdene i app-selskaper som Uber og Bolt forteller en urovekkende historie om utviklingen i den norske arbeidslivsmodellen.
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Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The people who take their place enter a very diferent gig economy. Newcomers often lack the institutional memory regarding labor and payment standards that the previous generation took with them when they moved on. This is why online forums and app groups are so important.
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Michael Maffie @maffie.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚨 I’m excited to announce that, “The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy” is now available online ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy
This study investigates the mechanisms by which gig platforms degrade labour conditions over time, building on the concept of platform decay, or ‘enshittification’, initially developed in the context...
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Erika Gubrium @erikagubrium.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Bra analyse som tas på alvor norsk arbeidslivets «randsonene»: klassekampen.no/utgave/2025-...
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Plattformene i bakspeilet
Arbeidsforholdene i app-selskaper som Uber og Bolt forteller en urovekkende historie om utviklingen i den norske arbeidslivsmodellen.
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Sigurd M Nordli Oppegaard @sigurdoppegaard.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Hva forteller Bolt, Uber og resten av plattformene om tilstanden i norsk arbeidsliv? I dagens Klassekampen drøfter jeg tre utfordringer disse jobbene illustrerer: sårbare gruppers arbeidsmarkedsmuligheter, regulering av ny teknologi og håndheving av arbeidsretten. klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...
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Plattformene i bakspeilet
Arbeidsforholdene i app-selskaper som Uber og Bolt forteller en urovekkende historie om utviklingen i den norske arbeidslivsmodellen.
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LO @lonorge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Grusomhetene vi ser på Gaza overgår alt. Vi må sikre at vi ikke bidrar til våpensalg til Israel. Og vi må mobilisere på alle nivåer for å få våpenhvile og humanitær hjelp til Gaza. Nå! #palestine #freepalestine #gazaunderattack #StoppVåpensalg
Matkø i Gaza by, 2. august 2025. Foto: Saher Alghorra/The New York Times/NTB
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