Pits – post/poster from August 2005 at least
This old poster is on a notice board outside the old council houses across the road from my flat – its survived 20 years or so I guess…
Tag: work
Reich on moralism
‘There are not many mistakes as significant as the conception that class consciousness is a matter of morality’ (Reich [1935] 1971: 24) < the one who must steal…
A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India
In this excerpt from A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India, Asiya Islam examines the lives of educated young women working in precarious jobs in Delhi’s service sector. The…
The Strategic Plan of The Working Day
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Understanding Human Rights: International Criminal Court vs UN Security Council
The Sphere Within Sphere sculpture at the United Nations Headquarters in New York carries a profound message. As a gift from Italy to mark the arrival of the new…
International Space Law: Reviewing the Legal Framework for Space Debris Mitigation and the Pact for the Future
Half a century after the Space Race of the bipolar international system, today’s space race involves a broader range of actors, no longer limited to States. In fact,…
Doing the accounts of the Mary Ann Walkley case yet again
In 1867, Marx wrote about of Mary Anne Walkley, overworked to death for a society dress – according to the London Chronicle. Now, instead of ruffle of lace,…
Metaphors from 1988.
I’ll never claim to be a poet, but my first publications were angry letters to the local papers, and meandering poems about building, trees and insects. It is…
“Black, white, blue, red: struggles against death and vampires in Marx’s Capital”
“Black, white, blue, red: struggles against death and vampires in Marx’s Capital”– part one in a series… future book perpetration in plannnnnnnn…
Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin – review
Fabian Broeker‘s Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin explores how dating apps mediate intimacy among young Berliners. Presenting an immersive ethnography of app usa…
Rebooting Tourism in Vietnam : The Ho Tram Strip
Asian Perspective, vol. 48, no. 1 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/919884 I have, for personal use only, a pdf copy of this article, which appears in Asian Perspective, vol. 48, no….
vampires, sturm und drang
Given how well-known the greatest hits are, it is fun to expand the famous quote just a little to see where Marx signals important transitions: here comes, for…
How global fashion brands failed Rana Plaza’s survivors
by Rebecca Prentice The survivors of the deadly supply chain disaster were paid ‘rights-based’ compensation from global brands; it wasn’t sufficient to help rebuild their lives The Rana…
Depression (not mine, ours)
Depression: I am no expert on depression, at all, but I also note that over the last two decades it has become a more visible topic of discussion…
Stephen Campbell: On the dialectics of capitalist expansion: An interview with Christopher Krupa
In April 2022, University of Pennsylvania Press published A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador, by University of Toronto anthropologist Christopher Krupa. Tracing t…
Injury and Fitness: Responsibility through Biomedicine
Kashif pointed to different parts of the wounds on his leg and explained to me how they had healed, exacerbated, or been ignored at different places of care.…
What did I do in MSF – APP?!
In the summer of 2022, I went to Europe for a full-time volunteering position to help the refugees in MSF. After talking about how the nonprofit functions, I…
Volunteering in MSF – MSF Explained
In the early spring of 2022, the Russo-Ukrainian war began. Having heard of the refugees' tragic experiences, I was overwhelmed with sadness and sympathy. These people not only…
The reserve army of labour – (latent)
Well, this is a new blip on the slow process of getting people paid recognition for work. There are a few other things like this – eg the…
Khin Thazin and Stephen Campbell: How the Myanmar coup has impacted migrant workers abroad
The February 2021 military coup in Myanmar put an end to the country’s ten-year period of quasi-civilian electoral rule—the so-called democratic transition, as it was optimistically called. Since…
Teaching Cambodian Students English and Digital Literacy
Recently, I started an online learning project to help Cambodians with Youjia, one of my friends from Singapore. My project started simple. Initially I searched online, found out…
Heroes of Our Economy
A social economy approach therefore asks why people are engaged in specific enterprises. Are they simply out to make the most money they can? Many people do. Or…
Andrew Sanchez: Work is Complicated: Thoughts on David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs
There’s a Committee for Committees! A few weeks ago, I received a message from a colleague. It was the sort of funny thing that one friend says to…
Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea (Book Review)
by Connie Scott “Fish simply appear in supermarkets” (p.209), writes Penny McCall Howard. Most consumers have little or no awareness of where their fish comes from, or of…