January 2026 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke UP) edited by Sarah Bufkin & Ida Danewid theorises racial capitalism in (post)imperial Europe.

My contribution discusses the relationship between racialisation of Roma through workfare & debtfare, and high industrial employment in Czechia

Sectoral variations in the use of algorithmic management across Europe. Most prevalent in financial services:
- 35% workers report that it's used to monitor their work performance:
- 34 % report AM used to *allocate* their work tasks.

European Working Conditions Survey 2024
tinyurl.com/4rhbfh4n

Reading Sivanandan (1989) fills me with hope - it's the ultimate reminder that we need to stick to a sharp socialist analysis and hold on to values of "loyalty, solidarity, camaraderie, unity, all the great things...that make us human."

Join us next Tuesday (online) to discuss 'Capitalist Transformations in East and Central Europe'. I will talk about
how racialisation of Roma became the grammar of labour precarity in Czechia.

capitalist-transformations.com/conference-p...
@uomsociology.bsky.social

Florida's immigration enforcement & erosion of child labour laws:

www.floridapolicy.org/posts/fast-f...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Visitor by Maeve Brennan has arrived.

"The room showed no signs of recent disturbance. The notebook was still lying open... just as you remebered it from Sunday night, when Jeong-dae had been close to tears, & you [tried] calming him down by making a list of places where [she] might have gone to... but [she] was nowhere to be found."

'I remember the Mennonites bending the way Daphne had bent when she was cleaning the restroom. I remember the dark blue of their bonnets, the black of their shoes. I was already trembling when Daphne asked quietly, "Did you thank them?"'

ZZ Packer in Brownies.

This report presents examples of strategies for the labour movement to push back against tech-powered surveilance, wage theft & more. Drawing on global mapping that I did with colleagues from ILAW network.

www.ilawnetwork.com/wp-content/u...

Critical Romani Studies (online) conference on racial capitalism: precwork.granturi.ubbcluj.ro/en/conferenc...

I'll talk about: Industrial decline, Roma under-employment and unpayable debts: Producing the “surplus populations” under Czech racial capitalism