Current debates about AI are taking me right back to the 1970s when I first started writing about the implications of technology for work and daily life. Making me sometimes want to yawn and someti…

We have just come to the end of what was officially described as the fifth heatwave of the year here in central London. And it feels as if my brain has been undergoing much the same weather assault…

Runaway production isn’t just costing Hollywood jobs. It’s severing the intergenerational chains along which film crafts are passed down, replacing an industry town’s living inheritance with a disloca...

Jason Arday is being targeted by persistent, unfounded plagiarism allegations, prompting warnings about the wider impact on aspiring Black and brown leaders

Thousands of Indians are falling ill and dying of preventable deaths due to extreme heat. Heat Watch is helping expand awareness, capacity, and accountability to facilitate better decision-making and ...

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d3445946e80">This article examines pro-Gaza campus activism and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as contemporary struggles over communication rights and democratic participation. Focusing on student encampments across Canadian universities in 2024, it argues that such actions function not only as political protests but as intentional communicative practices that reclaim space, visibility and collective voice. Drawing on Vincent Mosco’s political economy of communication, the article analyses how corporatisation, securitisation and institutional governance constrain student expression while privileging market and security logics. From a Mosco-inspired perspective, the encampments reveal communication as a substantive democratic right – one enacted through deliberation, dissent and collective action against concentrated institutional power. </p>

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Ursula Huws on labor, technology, capital, telework, outsourcing, the OED, gender, and Jimmy Young You can read some of her work here: https://ursulahuws.wordpress.com/

With a new prime minister committed both to devolution to regions and to developing a national plan for adult social care and the launch of a public debate on this topic, it seems to be an opportun…

In her day job, Ursula Huws is a researcher, lecturer, writer and editor, based in London, who blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. In November 2024, after the victory of Donald Trump in the US presiden...

Universal basic income is not a panacea, and some versions are libertarian — but a good version is worth fighting for.

With a new prime minister committed both to devolution to regions and to developing a national plan for adult social care and the launch of a public debate on this topic, it seems to be an opportun…

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Usually at this time of the year I post a picture on this blog in lieu of a Christmas card. Very often this is a picture I have taken during the course of the previous year, selected sometimes for …

I found this image on Bluesky, where it was attributed to Von Bog Witch, to whom I offer huge thanks and appreciation. Unfortunately, despite several attempts, I was unable to find a way to communi…

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As my last post indicated, I am currently experiencing very personally and directly the impacts of the outsourcing of health and social services that has been taking place in the UK since the 1980s…

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d1373472e208">The digital transformation of industries has given rise to new categories of tech workers, such as sof...

How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash

How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash

Article by Véronique Sioufi and Iglika Ivanova Véronique Sioufi is the racial equity researcher and policy analyst and Iglika Ivanova is a senior economist at BC Policy Solutions. British Columb...

Services like cleaning are increasingly outsourced via online platforms

Special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication The theme When…

As my last post indicated, I am currently experiencing very personally and directly the impacts of the outsourcing of health and social services that has been taking place in the UK since the 1980s…

This book reveals how technology shapes power dynamics, empowering workers to reclaim agency amidst disruption and fostering critical perspectives.