Bargaining over job loss: trade union legitimacy in the UK steel industry
Chris McLachlan explores the legitimacy of trade unions in the restructuring of the UK steel industry.
My Body, Whose Choice?
Elena Keighobadi critically examines the #tradwife and #girlboss movements on TikTok from a feminist intersectional lens.
The Great Green Wall: political ecology of a phantom project
Valerio Bini and Alessio Iocchi discuss the failures of the Great Green Wall in Africa.
Farming on the Frontlines: A conversation between Jonathan Om and Matan Kaminer
Artist and filmmaker Jonathan Om interviews Matan Kaminer on Thai migrant workers in Israel’s agricultural frontier settlements.
The Labour Foundations of China’s Consumer-First Internet
JS Tan explains how cheap labour and flexible employment practices encourage internet firms to build consumer platforms.
The Missing Middle in U.S. Policy Responses to Creeping Inflation
Hema Thakur throws a spotlight on the ‘hidden’ middle-income households struggling to keep up with post-pandemic inflation.
Freedom as Autonomy: platform workers’ struggles and the future of work in Argentina
Sofia Negri asks how we can build a future of work that transforms the salaried relationship to reconcile autonomy with social protection.
Attacking the world's poor: The effects of US tariffs on least developed economies
How will US tariffs affect the least developed countries? Daniel Gay considers possible impacts, highlighting how they might inflict greater pain on already struggling populations.
Race, Profit, and Algorithms: How iBuyers Leverage Neighbourhood Inequality
How do algorithm-driven business models interact with historical patterns of segregation, property devaluation, and racial capitalism? Wonyoung So addresses this question in new research into iBuyers—a new class of real estate actors in the United States. Read on!
Book Review: Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice by Joan Martínez-Alier
Joan Martínez-Alier’s latest book offers important evidence on why the environmentalism of the poor is key to socioecological transformation. Also, it doesn’t shy away from thorny subjects.
Ctrl+Alt+Union: Game workers’ struggle and unionisation
Tracing exploitation in the gaming industry, Jamie Woodcock highlights the organising by workers in the industry and the model it provides for organising in non-union work sectors.
Book Review: Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market
Alec Fiorini reviews Adam Hanieh’s latest book on the entanglements between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to today’s environmental and climate crisis.
Workers’ Inquiry and Co-Research: Fault lines and hope
Following CLaSP’s workshop on Workers’ Inquiry and Co-Research, Suraj Bhaskarrao Telange explores the history of the Workers’ Inquiry method and why Marx’s work has been so important to its development.
Is Sustainable Business an Oxymoron? Rethinking sustainability under capitalism on our new MSc programme
What would it take for our economies and societies to really become sustainable? And how can students develop the knowledge and skills to become global leaders in this process? These are the questions that our new MSc Global Business and Sustainability, launching in September 2025 in QMUL’s School of Business and Management, has been designed to answer.
The revolution shall not be automated: On the political possibilities of activism through data & AI
Reflecting on the “AI revolution”, Isadora Cruxên draws on her experience working with activists in the collaborative project Data Against Feminicide to argue that the politics of data and AI is, at heart, a politics of knowledge production. She invites us all to take part in this conversation.
How green bonds hit the ground: Notes from Brazilian agribusiness
A new financial tool has emerged with the promise of meeting both sustainability goals and investors’ appetite for new assets: green bonds. In this blog post, Vanessa Perin explains how green bonds intersect with Brazil’s agribusiness sector and landscapes to produce unintended effects.
Political economy in the era of climate capitalism: Thoughts on Dieselgate, carbon fetishism and libidinal economy
Do you remember the Dieselgate scandal that the German car giant Volkswagen was involved with? In this short essay, Steffen Boehm argues the scandal can be read through the lens of “carbon fetichism”: an extreme obsession with carbon emissions that has taken hold of large parts of environmental policymaking and activism. Read on!
How Javier Milei’s ‘anarcho-capitalism’ is set to deepen extractivism in Argentina
Policy reform proposals from ultra-right libertarian and self-defined ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president, promise transformation but risk deepening extractivism. Read more from Paula Serafini!
Regional Value Chains and Governance of Decent Work in Sub-Saharan Africa
New research on horticulture and garment value chains in Kenya and South Africa sheds light onto rising South-South trade and the emergence of domestic and regional value chains.