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Book Review: Eliter i Sverige: Tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv på makt, status och klass by Bengt Erik Eriksson, Mikael Holmqvist and Lena Sohl (eds) by Lancaster, Guy

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Book Review: Livet är för dyrbart för att dammas bort. Aktiveringspolitik, kvinnors förvärvasrbete och omvandlingen av familjen 1960–1980 by Åsa Lundqvist by Lancaster, Guy

“…Livet är för dyrbart för att dammas bort. Aktiveringspolitik, kvinnors förvärvasrbete och omvandlingen av familjen 1960–1980, by Åsa Lundqvist, is reviewed…”
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Book Review: Kampen om det allmänna bästa. Konflikter om privat och offentlig drift i Stockholms stad under 400 år by Mats Hallenberg by Lancaster, Guy

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Ras och vithet: Svenska rasrelationer i går och i dag by Lancaster, Guy

“…Tobias Hübinette (ed.). Ras och vithet: Svenska rasrelationer i går och i dag, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2017; 280 pp.: ISBN 9789744117980, 291 kr (paper)…”
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Book Review: Att älska sitt jobb. Passion, entusiasm och nyliberal subjektivitet by Magdalena Petersson McIntyre by Lancaster, Guy

“…McIntyre, Magdalena Petersson Att älska sitt jobb. Passion, entusiasm och nyliberal subjektivitet [ To Love One's Job: Passion, Enthusiasm and Neoliberal…”
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The platform as factory: Crowdwork and the hidden labour behind artificial intelligence by Altenried, Moritz

“…This article analyses crowdwork platforms where various forms of digital labour are outsourced to digital workers across the globe. The labour of these workers…”
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Neoliberalism is not dead – On political implications of Covid-19 by Šumonja, Miloš

“…The news is old – neoliberalism is dead for good, but this time, even Financial Times knows it. Obituaries claim that it had died from the coronavirus, as the…”
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Rethinking power, production, and social reproduction: Toward variegated social reproduction by Bakker, Isabella, Gill, Stephen

“…This special issue introduces new work, new perspectives, and engages in a dialogue to revisit, extend and go beyond the original central hypothesis of Power,…”
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Against neoliberalism as a concept by Dunn, Bill

“…Neoliberalism is a slippery concept, neither intellectually precise nor political useful. It is used so widely, to mean such different things, that it becomes…”
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Workplace investigations, the epistemic power of managerialism and the hollowing out of the Norwegian model of co-determination by Kuldova, Tereza Østbø, Nordrik, Bitten

“…Workplace investigations are increasingly being used in Norwegian workplaces in both public and private sectors to investigate allegations of misconduct,…”
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Neither/Nor: The rejection of Unionist and Nationalist identities in post-Agreement Northern Ireland by Hayward, Katy, McManus, Cathal

“…Since 2006, according to the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, the largest portion of people in Northern Ireland identify themselves not as Unionist nor…”
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Rediscovering the cash nexus, again: Subsumption and the labour–capital relation in platform work by Joyce, Simon

“…This article proposes a re-theorisation of the main social relations of platform work, based on two concepts drawn from Marx: subsumption of labour and the…”
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Fast Food Shutdown: From disorganisation to action in the service sector by Cant, Callum, Woodcock, Jamie

“…This article discusses the Fast Food Shutdown, a strike on 4 October 2018 that involved Wetherspoon, McDonald’s, TGI Fridays and UberEats workers in the United…”
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Idealism and biologism in social reproduction theory: A materialist critique by Goikoetxea, Jule

“…The article gives a materialist interpretation of the first, second and third Marxist-feminist Theses through a critical analysis of the Unitary Theory of…”
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Situating platform gig economy in the formal subsumption of reproductive labor: Transnational migrant domestic workers and the continuum of exploitation and precarity by Yin, Siyuan

“…In conversation with critical platform and labor studies, which tend to focus on drivers and food delivery workers, this article seeks to expand our…”
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Financialized accumulation, neoliberal hegemony, and the transformation of the Swedish Welfare Model, 1980–2020 by Skyrman, Viktor, Allelin, Majsa, Kallifatides, Markus, Sjöberg, Stefan

“…Drawing on a Gramscian Regulation Approach and Harvey’s accumulation by dispossession thesis, this article discusses the structural and hegemonic mechanisms of…”
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Contemporary class composition analysis: The politics of production and the autonomy of the political by Pitts, Frederick Harry

“…The political and organisational routes opened up on the contemporary left following the financial crisis have seen a revival of class composition analysis as…”
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Corporate and business domination of food banks and food diversion schemes in Canada by Azadian, Anahita, Masciangelo, Mary Catherine, Mendly-Zambo, Zsofia, Taman, Alan, Raphael, Dennis

“…Critics have identified the corporate and business sector as contributing to household food insecurity through its endorsement of low wages, anti-union…”
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To empower or constrain? How emergent interest representation transformed workers’ collective action in South China by Wenten, Frido

“…It is commonly assumed that the best way to strengthen workers’ voice in authoritarian contexts such as China is through the institutionalisation of collective…”
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