CLaSP
@clasp-qmul.bsky.social
Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production @QMUL
Get in touch: clasp-info@qmul.ac.uk
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Get in touch: clasp-info@qmul.ac.uk
claspblog.org
CLaSP invites you to a seminar followed by a workshop on the fintech industry and building tools for community advocacy.
When:
Seminar: 16 December, 4-6 PM
Workshop: 17 December, 10AM-330 PM
Register here: www.claspblog.org/events/semin...
When:
Seminar: 16 December, 4-6 PM
Workshop: 17 December, 10AM-330 PM
Register here: www.claspblog.org/events/semin...
December 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
CLaSP invites you to a seminar followed by a workshop on the fintech industry and building tools for community advocacy.
When:
Seminar: 16 December, 4-6 PM
Workshop: 17 December, 10AM-330 PM
Register here: www.claspblog.org/events/semin...
When:
Seminar: 16 December, 4-6 PM
Workshop: 17 December, 10AM-330 PM
Register here: www.claspblog.org/events/semin...
CLaSP invites you for a lunch-time seminar on EV manufacturing and industrial policy in South America with Felipe Irarrázaval, Universidad de Chile
When/Where: Friday 14 November 2025, 13:00 14:00; Room 2.41 Bancroft Building, QMUL Mile End Road
#IndustrialPolicy #EV #EnergyTransition
When/Where: Friday 14 November 2025, 13:00 14:00; Room 2.41 Bancroft Building, QMUL Mile End Road
#IndustrialPolicy #EV #EnergyTransition
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
CLaSP invites you for a lunch-time seminar on EV manufacturing and industrial policy in South America with Felipe Irarrázaval, Universidad de Chile
When/Where: Friday 14 November 2025, 13:00 14:00; Room 2.41 Bancroft Building, QMUL Mile End Road
#IndustrialPolicy #EV #EnergyTransition
When/Where: Friday 14 November 2025, 13:00 14:00; Room 2.41 Bancroft Building, QMUL Mile End Road
#IndustrialPolicy #EV #EnergyTransition
Another event in the lineup of events at the start of this academic year at CLaSP! This one on Indian policy makers, business ethics, and policy making.
This is event is co-supported by QM South Asia Forum and the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire.
When: 6th November 2025; 5-630 PM
This is event is co-supported by QM South Asia Forum and the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire.
When: 6th November 2025; 5-630 PM
October 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Another event in the lineup of events at the start of this academic year at CLaSP! This one on Indian policy makers, business ethics, and policy making.
This is event is co-supported by QM South Asia Forum and the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire.
When: 6th November 2025; 5-630 PM
This is event is co-supported by QM South Asia Forum and the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire.
When: 6th November 2025; 5-630 PM
Interested about financialisation and why states foster policies that lead to the dominance of financial capital? Come to CLaSP's seminar:
Event: Financial Capital, the State, and Politics
When: 30th October, 2025; 4-530 PM
Where: Graduate Centre, QMUL Mile End Campus
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Bernards
Event: Financial Capital, the State, and Politics
When: 30th October, 2025; 4-530 PM
Where: Graduate Centre, QMUL Mile End Campus
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Bernards
October 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Interested about financialisation and why states foster policies that lead to the dominance of financial capital? Come to CLaSP's seminar:
Event: Financial Capital, the State, and Politics
When: 30th October, 2025; 4-530 PM
Where: Graduate Centre, QMUL Mile End Campus
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Bernards
Event: Financial Capital, the State, and Politics
When: 30th October, 2025; 4-530 PM
Where: Graduate Centre, QMUL Mile End Campus
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Bernards
New on the CLaSP blog: artist & filmmaker Jonathan Om interviews CLaSP's Matan Kaminer about Thai migrant workers in Israel's agricultural frontier settlements.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/sx...
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/sx...
Farming on the Frontlines: A conversation between Jonathan Om and Matan Kaminer — CLaSP Blog
Artist and filmmaker Jonathan Om interviews CLaSP member Matan Kaminer about his ethnographic work on Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture. They discuss the history behind how these workers cam...
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October 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
New on the CLaSP blog: artist & filmmaker Jonathan Om interviews CLaSP's Matan Kaminer about Thai migrant workers in Israel's agricultural frontier settlements.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/sx...
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/sx...
Latest on the CLaSP blog: Why has China’s digital economy developed along such a distinctly consumer-facing path? @js-tan.bsky.social explains 'The Labour Foundations of China’s Consumer-First Internet'
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/7l...
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/7l...
The Labour Foundations of China’s Consumer-First Internet — CLaSP Blog
JS Tan explains how cheap labour and flexible employment practices encourage internet firms to build consumer platforms.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Latest on the CLaSP blog: Why has China’s digital economy developed along such a distinctly consumer-facing path? @js-tan.bsky.social explains 'The Labour Foundations of China’s Consumer-First Internet'
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/7l...
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/7l...
CLaSP is hosting a film screening of BEHIND THE FURROW & discussion with director Jonathan Om. The film focuses on colonial violence & Thai migrant workers in Israel's frontier agriculture.
Oct 16th at 6pm. Please register for a free ticket:
www.claspblog.org/events/behin...
Oct 16th at 6pm. Please register for a free ticket:
www.claspblog.org/events/behin...
BEHIND THE FURROW: Film Screening and discussion with Jonathan Om — CLaSP Blog
CLaSP invites you for a preview screening and discussion of a documentary film by Jonathan Om.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
CLaSP is hosting a film screening of BEHIND THE FURROW & discussion with director Jonathan Om. The film focuses on colonial violence & Thai migrant workers in Israel's frontier agriculture.
Oct 16th at 6pm. Please register for a free ticket:
www.claspblog.org/events/behin...
Oct 16th at 6pm. Please register for a free ticket:
www.claspblog.org/events/behin...
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🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
How does India's agrarian crisis harm women workers? 🌾
Shreya Sinha explores how shifts from cotton to rice cultivation relate to class, gender and caste oppression in Punjab 💭
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/WYfmC
#Agriculture #PoliticalEconomy #Labour #Podcast
How does India's agrarian crisis harm women workers? 🌾
Shreya Sinha explores how shifts from cotton to rice cultivation relate to class, gender and caste oppression in Punjab 💭
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/WYfmC
#Agriculture #PoliticalEconomy #Labour #Podcast
June 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
How does India's agrarian crisis harm women workers? 🌾
Shreya Sinha explores how shifts from cotton to rice cultivation relate to class, gender and caste oppression in Punjab 💭
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/WYfmC
#Agriculture #PoliticalEconomy #Labour #Podcast
How does India's agrarian crisis harm women workers? 🌾
Shreya Sinha explores how shifts from cotton to rice cultivation relate to class, gender and caste oppression in Punjab 💭
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/WYfmC
#Agriculture #PoliticalEconomy #Labour #Podcast
New on the CLaSP blog: Looking at platform workers in Argentina, Sofia Negri asks how we can build a future of work that transforms the salaried relationship to reconcile autonomy with social protection
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ac...
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ac...
Freedom as Autonomy: platform workers’ struggles and the future of work in Argentina — CLaSP Blog
Sofia Negri asks how we can build a future of work that transforms the salaried relationship to reconcile autonomy with social protection.
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July 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
New on the CLaSP blog: Looking at platform workers in Argentina, Sofia Negri asks how we can build a future of work that transforms the salaried relationship to reconcile autonomy with social protection
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ac...
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ac...
After the very engaging two days on the hashtag#MaterialitiesOfAI workshop, CLaSP is hosting a launch and conversation with Professor Ariel Salleh on her new book ‘Decolonize Ecomodernism!’
When: 10th June, 4-6 PM. Graduate Centre room 601, QMUL Mile End campus.
www.claspblog.org/events/decol...
When: 10th June, 4-6 PM. Graduate Centre room 601, QMUL Mile End campus.
www.claspblog.org/events/decol...
June 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
After the very engaging two days on the hashtag#MaterialitiesOfAI workshop, CLaSP is hosting a launch and conversation with Professor Ariel Salleh on her new book ‘Decolonize Ecomodernism!’
When: 10th June, 4-6 PM. Graduate Centre room 601, QMUL Mile End campus.
www.claspblog.org/events/decol...
When: 10th June, 4-6 PM. Graduate Centre room 601, QMUL Mile End campus.
www.claspblog.org/events/decol...
Some photos from Day 1 of our #MaterialitiesOfAI workshop with @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social. Two session exploring the ecological, social and material implications of AI.
On Day 2, we move on to workshops on the methodologies of studying AI!
On Day 2, we move on to workshops on the methodologies of studying AI!
May 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Some photos from Day 1 of our #MaterialitiesOfAI workshop with @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social. Two session exploring the ecological, social and material implications of AI.
On Day 2, we move on to workshops on the methodologies of studying AI!
On Day 2, we move on to workshops on the methodologies of studying AI!
Our end of the year event is just two weeks away! Over two days and four sessions, we will be covering the social and environmental aspects of the AI industry, including the politics and methodologies for researching AI. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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May 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Our end of the year event is just two weeks away! Over two days and four sessions, we will be covering the social and environmental aspects of the AI industry, including the politics and methodologies for researching AI. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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The state is back, and it means business!
Just CLaSP for an in-person event with Ilias Alami, University of Cambridge, co-author of the book 'The Spectre of State Capitalism' in discussing this new state capitalism.
When/where: 1st of May at Queen Mary, Mile End Campus
www.claspblog.org/events
Just CLaSP for an in-person event with Ilias Alami, University of Cambridge, co-author of the book 'The Spectre of State Capitalism' in discussing this new state capitalism.
When/where: 1st of May at Queen Mary, Mile End Campus
www.claspblog.org/events
April 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The state is back, and it means business!
Just CLaSP for an in-person event with Ilias Alami, University of Cambridge, co-author of the book 'The Spectre of State Capitalism' in discussing this new state capitalism.
When/where: 1st of May at Queen Mary, Mile End Campus
www.claspblog.org/events
Just CLaSP for an in-person event with Ilias Alami, University of Cambridge, co-author of the book 'The Spectre of State Capitalism' in discussing this new state capitalism.
When/where: 1st of May at Queen Mary, Mile End Campus
www.claspblog.org/events
Intrigued by the workers that OpenAI is lamenting are tired given the surge in #Ghibli images? CLaSP has an event for you! Our end of the year event titled 'Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier' will delve into the hidden abode of AI.
April 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Intrigued by the workers that OpenAI is lamenting are tired given the surge in #Ghibli images? CLaSP has an event for you! Our end of the year event titled 'Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier' will delve into the hidden abode of AI.
New on the CLaSP blog: 'Race, Profit, and Algorithms', @wonyoungso.bsky.social details his research on iBuyers, a new class of real estate actors generating profits in racialized housing markets
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ra...
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ra...
Race, Profit, and Algorithms: How iBuyers Leverage Neighbourhood Inequality — CLaSP Blog
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—...
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April 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New on the CLaSP blog: 'Race, Profit, and Algorithms', @wonyoungso.bsky.social details his research on iBuyers, a new class of real estate actors generating profits in racialized housing markets
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ra...
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ra...
CLaSP seminar titled 'Petrochemical Transitions' with Alice Mah and Adam Hanieh engaged in a wide range of discussions on the growing prominence of petrochemical manufacturing and the challenges these pose to labour, geopolitics and sustainability!
If you missed this, follow www.claspblog.org!
If you missed this, follow www.claspblog.org!
March 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
CLaSP seminar titled 'Petrochemical Transitions' with Alice Mah and Adam Hanieh engaged in a wide range of discussions on the growing prominence of petrochemical manufacturing and the challenges these pose to labour, geopolitics and sustainability!
If you missed this, follow www.claspblog.org!
If you missed this, follow www.claspblog.org!
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On May 20th, AARG is organizing a round table about the multiple crisis of higher education. This event aims to reposition this specific crisis in relation to other crises, students’ debts, cost of living crisis, University governance crisis, crisis of the welfare state … registration link 👇
March 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
On May 20th, AARG is organizing a round table about the multiple crisis of higher education. This event aims to reposition this specific crisis in relation to other crises, students’ debts, cost of living crisis, University governance crisis, crisis of the welfare state … registration link 👇
🗣️ EVENT: Join us at CLaSP on 13 March for a dialogue between two leading scholars of the global fossil fuel economy - Alice Mah & Adam Hanieh - on 'Petrochemical Transitions'. Register for a free ticket:
www.claspblog.org/events/petro...
www.claspblog.org/events/petro...
Petrochemical transitions: a dialogue on industrial, geopolitical & sustainability transformations with Alice Mah and Adam Hanieh — CLaSP Blog
Petrochemical transitions: a dialogue on industrial, geopolitical and sustainability transformations The event brings together two leading scholars – Adam Hanieh and Alice Mah – whose shared focus on...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🗣️ EVENT: Join us at CLaSP on 13 March for a dialogue between two leading scholars of the global fossil fuel economy - Alice Mah & Adam Hanieh - on 'Petrochemical Transitions'. Register for a free ticket:
www.claspblog.org/events/petro...
www.claspblog.org/events/petro...
Members attended a workshop titled 'Experimenting with AI Tools Tailored for Research', facilitated by @icruxen.bsky.social. Members had hands-on time to work through different apps that built practical experimentation and was followed by reflections on navigating research in an AI mediated world.
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Members attended a workshop titled 'Experimenting with AI Tools Tailored for Research', facilitated by @icruxen.bsky.social. Members had hands-on time to work through different apps that built practical experimentation and was followed by reflections on navigating research in an AI mediated world.
Book Review: The book 'Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice' follows over 500 environmental justice movements evidencing why 'environmentalism of the poor' is key to socioecological transformation.
Read here: www.claspblog.org/blogposts/la...
Read here: www.claspblog.org/blogposts/la...
February 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Book Review: The book 'Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice' follows over 500 environmental justice movements evidencing why 'environmentalism of the poor' is key to socioecological transformation.
Read here: www.claspblog.org/blogposts/la...
Read here: www.claspblog.org/blogposts/la...
“We have to defeat the thinking of defeat”
From the archives, here is a blog post that can help us all reflect on the political work that is, and is in need of, being done.
Suraj Bhaskarrao Telange revisits the history & contemporary of Workers' Inquiry method : www.claspblog.org/blogposts/r5...
From the archives, here is a blog post that can help us all reflect on the political work that is, and is in need of, being done.
Suraj Bhaskarrao Telange revisits the history & contemporary of Workers' Inquiry method : www.claspblog.org/blogposts/r5...
February 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“We have to defeat the thinking of defeat”
From the archives, here is a blog post that can help us all reflect on the political work that is, and is in need of, being done.
Suraj Bhaskarrao Telange revisits the history & contemporary of Workers' Inquiry method : www.claspblog.org/blogposts/r5...
From the archives, here is a blog post that can help us all reflect on the political work that is, and is in need of, being done.
Suraj Bhaskarrao Telange revisits the history & contemporary of Workers' Inquiry method : www.claspblog.org/blogposts/r5...
📚 Book round-up: browse some of the recent book publications from CLaSP members. Topics from supply chains, agricultural labour, artistic production & activism and more www.claspblog.org/blogposts/g9...
Book round-up: Latest works by CLaSP members — CLaSP Blog
A compilation of recent books by CLaSP members “just in time” for teaching. This is the first of many posts highlighting the extremely rich work of CLaSP members. The recent books listed below cov...
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February 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📚 Book round-up: browse some of the recent book publications from CLaSP members. Topics from supply chains, agricultural labour, artistic production & activism and more www.claspblog.org/blogposts/g9...
📣 New on the CLaSP blog!
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.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ga...
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.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ga...
Gaming Workers Unionising to tackle the gaming industry — CLaSP Blog
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.
www.claspblog.org
January 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📣 New on the CLaSP blog!
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.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ga...
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.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ga...
📢 New on the CLaSP blog
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.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/r5...
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.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/r5...
Book Review: Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market — CLaSP Blog
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.
www.claspblog.org
November 20, 2024 at 8:54 AM
📢 New on the CLaSP blog
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.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/r5...
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.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/r5...