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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work
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Exploring the politics (+ theory) of disablement & precarious work of all forms under capitalism | @cerasellachis.bsky.social

disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | anti-disablement
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Over the coming months, I will be working on a book that focuses on some aspects of the arguments developed through this project. Sharing this here as a way of pressuring myself into a more disciplined writing routine and to let mutuals know that something might be on the way.
a person is reading a book with a lot of words on it
Alt: Gif of a person closing a book
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November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
disprecwork.bsky.social
Interesting @wearenewlocal.bsky.social podcast episode on community centres (there are approx 21,000) in the UK!

www.newlocal.org.uk/publications...
Where People Meet: How We Celebrate, Sustain and Reimagine Community Centres - New Local
This report sets out the vital role that community centres play in local areas and makes the case for investing in their future.
www.newlocal.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
disprecwork.bsky.social
#20 - Egista
'For me the most important thing is to kill that "little capitalist devil inside ourselves" because that's toxic to everyone and it's very stupid and it's generated by this interlocked system of oppression, capitalism, & normalcy. The starting point is to be better able'..
- Egista 1/2
'For me the most important thing is to kill that "little capitalist devil inside ourselves" because that's toxic to everyone and it's very stupid and it's generated by this interlocked system of oppression, capitalism, and normalcy. The starting point is to be better able to defend ourselves and other people, our comrades (either disabled or temporarily able-bodied) from oppressive demands that are placed in terms of productivity, workload, performance. Maybe on that basis, do not be honest with your employer or whoever that is'. - Egista
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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2karl.bsky.social
The really shit thing about the so called 8 hour work day is that it's not 8 hours. It's 8 plus your (unpaid) lunch (30 minutes to an hour), plus your commute time, plus the getting ready every morning. 10 to 12 hours really. Which means there's only 12-14 hours left. So we have to choose:
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective

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Graphic with a white background and text: The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective
October 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
11 November 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health)
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Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health)
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
disprecwork.bsky.social
#19 - Julia
'.. remember Margaret Thatcher only slept four hours a night and nobody wants to be like her, so more sleep is good, more rest is good. Maybe as well: we are experts in ourselves'
- Julia 1/2
'... remember Margaret Thatcher only slept four hours a night and nobody wants to be like her, so more sleep is good, more rest is good. Maybe as well: we are experts in ourselves. Learning to understand ourselves without guilt and without shame - I think that's *huge*, you know? To be able to say: "no, this is what I need", to advocate for that, to self-advocate or advocate for other people - that, I think, is a really big one - for people to not feel the kind of shame'. - Julia
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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#18 - Gus
'In hindsight, across my life, I just wish I'd learned to say "no" an awful lot more. I've just really come to realise that actually doing less doesn't mean that you have achieved less. I wish I had a much better sense of that when I was a young man coming into my career, really'
- Gus 1/2
'In hindsight, across my life, I just wish I'd learned to say "no" an awful lot more. I've just really come to realise that actually doing less doesn't mean that you have achieved less. I wish I had a much better sense of that when I was a young man coming into my career, really. Doing less things but to a better standard is as valuable as this intensification that we've ended up in. Say no, just say no!' - Gus
October 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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#17 - Ronald

''Avoid burnout and keep some positivity. That's very important: having a positive vision for the future. Yes, there are many challenges, but we are all together. We're going to make it. And if the box doesn't fit you, throw it'.
- Ronald 1/3
#Rest #Disability #Work
'Avoid burnout and keep some positivity. That's very important: having a positive vision for the future. Yes, there are many challenges, but we are all together. We're going to make it. And if the box doesn't fit you, throw it. Don't try the second time, the third time; just throw it. If it's not for you, it's not worth the effort. Throughout the journey you're going to come across wonderful people. Just keep your eyes, your ears, and your heart open to see them, to listen to them, to connect with them. And I'd send them a big smile'. - Ronald
September 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
disprecwork.bsky.social
Panos Theodoropoulos on precarity & IWW’s General Defence Committees: ‘The idea is to create a feedback loop where the community is connected to the workplace, & vice versa. Such initiatives allow us to go beyond seeing solidarity as a form of “activism”’ scottishleftreview.scot/precarity-an...
Precarity and the Collectivization of Struggle
Panos Theodoropoulos shares notes for organisers in Scotland based on years of struggle alongside precarious migrants in Glasgow.
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September 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series.

Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.

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"A vintage green typewriter with a blank yellow sheet of paper inserted, set against a solid red background."
August 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
disprecwork.bsky.social
‘Don't you know how busy and important I am?
I got soooo much to do
Don't you know how busy and important I am?
I got soooooo much to do
Oh, I'm too busy to finish this so—‘

youtu.be/iG9h3KUtaIc?...

#PoliticsOfRest
Tom Rosenthal - Don't You Know How Busy & Important I Am? (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Tom Rosenthal
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August 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
disprecwork.bsky.social
#16 - Ursula

'Self-care is absolutely crucial. You can't help others or produce anything if you are unable to look after yourself and your needs, so that you are meeting the world with your best self, your best good, feeling, capable self'.
- Ursula 1/3
'Self-care is absolutely crucial. You can't help others or produce anything if you are unable to look after yourself and your needs, so that you are meeting the world with your best self, your best good, feeling, capable self. If you don't look after yourself, you get into the spiral where you work too hard, try too hard, and it breaks you. It's not productive for you, it's not self-fulfilling and it usually backfires on you. And organise - organise, organise, organise. If we all got together and really insisted on what we need, it'd be difficult for them to keep fucking us over one-by-one, which is I think what happens to workers who are precarious in body/mind, as they see it'. - Ursula
August 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
disprecwork.bsky.social
Yesterday, I presented at the American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social Annual Conference, on the Disability, Work & Economies of Difference panel. Many thanks to Richard Scotch for excellent chairing and to Pyung Kim, Junzhe Gu, Jennifer Brooks & Matthew Saleh for great presentations!
120th ASA Annual Meeting Reimagining the Future of Work August 8-12, 2025 Chicago, IL ASA The poster includes a representation of six people working at a table.
August 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
disprecwork.bsky.social
'The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked'.
countrylawer.bsky.social countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · Jul 25
“In this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.”

1: Emulate Bertrand Russell.
2: Post his writings to motivate others.

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In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell
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July 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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countrylawer.bsky.social
“In this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.”

1: Emulate Bertrand Russell.
2: Post his writings to motivate others.

harpers.org/archive/1932...
In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell
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July 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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marxdisability.bsky.social
SLSA-MDN Disability & Rights Conference - Opening Remarks (Clare Williams) & Workers’ and Charities’ Mobilisation of Rights panel (Shruti Iyer & Linda Steele)

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vx...

Abstracts: marxismdisability.wordpress.com/their-rights...

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#Marxism (1/8)
SLSA-MDN Disability & Rights Conference - Workers’ and Charities’ Mobilisation of Rights panel
YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory
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July 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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marxdisability.bsky.social
The 8 video recordings of the Disability & Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism conference co-organised/hosted with the SLSA Disability Law and Social Justice Stream are now available online!
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#Marxism #Disability
[Videos] SLSA-MDN Conference – Disability & Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism
On Friday, 13th of June & Saturday, 14th of June 2025, the Disability Law and Social Justice Stream of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and the Marxism and Disability Network …
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July 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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leisure-studies.bsky.social
New LSA Executive Members:

A warm welcome to...

---Adam Talbot (Research and Enterprise Officer): [UWS]

---Adele Doran (Membership Officer): [Sheffield Hallam]

---Ioana Cerasella Chis (Ordinary Member): [University of Birmingham]

---Alberto Amore (Ordinary Member): [University of Oulu]
July 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
disprecwork.bsky.social
‘We still have to make the case for our sort of sensible arithmetic that is based upon community care, the sharing of responsibility, the sharing of resources and the fact that most of the problems that now confront the great mass of working people in this country cannot be solved’ 1/2
by the present sort of sensible, business arithmetic. We still have to make the case for our sort of sensible arithmetic that is based upon community care, the sharing of responsibility, the sharing of resources and the fact that most of the problems that now confront the great mass of working people in this country cannot be solved, and will not be solved, by the arithmetic of the market forces that are displayed in full ferocity in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Robert Noonan,
July 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
disprecwork.bsky.social
#15 - Amelie

'You can't work where there's a constant battle, it's just impossible. You might be able to do your day job but you're not going to be able to progress or enjoy it or rest, or get on with your life. I don't know what the advice is but hopefully don't spend time on that..'
- Amelie 1/3
'You can't work where there's a constant battle, it's just impossible. You might be able to do your day job but you're not going to be able to progress or enjoy it or rest, or get on with your life. I don't know what the advice is but hopefully don't spend time on that... I just think workplaces need to be different and people do need to be valued better and disabled people need better access to work and everyone needs better support at work, I think. There's just a lot of lip service and talk about mental health and talk about wellbeing and talk about work-life balance but actually, I just don't think a lot of it is making a different to people's lives. It's just words'. - Amelie
July 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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cerasellachis.bsky.social
Excellent interview and great playlist - including Billy Nomates' Call In Sick and my latest new favourite song by Johnny Paycheck: Take This Job and Shove It!
July 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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mellino.bsky.social
“The amendment doesn’t take account..,the imbalance of power in workplaces & the characteristics of employees who are working on zero-hours contracts...many of those workers, vulnerable as they are, might come under pressure not to press for guaranteed hours"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Why zero-hours contracts could be here to stay in new blow to workers’ rights
Plans by the Government to crack down on zero-hour contracts in the workplace have suffered a setback
www.independent.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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harrycleaver.bsky.social
That "cruel & fckd up society" is a capitalist one that uses & abuses both humans & non-humans, indeed anything & everything it can to strengthen its hold over the planet.
July 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
disprecwork.bsky.social
A summary of this project in the European Sociological Association's 'European Sociologist' magazine, Issue 152

www.europeansociology.org/european-soc...
#Sociology #Capitalism #Disability #Marxism
∙ Issue 52 ∙ Sexualities, Queer and Trans research in troubled times: theory, experience, politics and praxis Index Editorial From ESA Doing Sociology Discussion Special The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work project Ioana Cerasella Chis July 2024 marked the completion of the postdisciplinary doctoral research study titled ‘The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work: Prefiguring a Non-Productivist Future’ (Chis 2024a) – funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In this Spotlight article its author, Ioana Cerasella Chis, introduces the study, highlights its related (Open Access) publications, and points to potential future developments.
July 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM