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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

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..'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 2/2
'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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#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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'Learning to understand ourselves without guilt & without shame - I think that's *huge* [...] 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 2/2
'... 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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#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
'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 2/2
'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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#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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'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 3/3
#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
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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'.
- Ronald 2/3
#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
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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
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'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 3/3
'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 11:04 AM
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'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'.
- Ursula 2/3
'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 11:03 AM
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#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
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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
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‘and will not be solved, by the arithmetic of the market forces that are displayed in full ferocity in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’.
- Norman Willis’ lecture on Tressell and the Unions
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
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‘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
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'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 3/3
'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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'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'.
- Amelie 2/3
'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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#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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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
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'If guidance and support are available around your needs, take the opportunity and make best use of your own capabilities to progress further in society'.

- Archie 2/2
'Challenge enough you can personally challenge and take on as much as you can possibly take on. Don't overwork yourself, get enough rest and sleep. Don't consider disability to be life-limiting and make the best use of your potential. If guidance and support are available around your needs, take the opportunity and make best use of your own capabilities to progress further in society'. - Archie
July 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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#14 - Archie

'Challenge enough you can personally challenge and take on as much as you can possibly take on. Don't overwork yourself, get enough rest and sleep. Don't consider disability to be life-limiting and make the best use of your potential'.

- Archie
1/2
'Challenge enough you can personally challenge and take on as much as you can possibly take on. Don't overwork yourself, get enough rest and sleep. Don't consider disability to be life-limiting and make the best use of your potential. If guidance and support are available around your needs, take the opportunity and make best use of your own capabilities to progress further in society'. - Archie
July 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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The panel is part of the ‘Innovating Intersectionality: Creative Frontiers for Epistemological and Methodological Perspectives’ stream. Many thanks to the convenors of the stream Jenny K. Rodriguez, Amanda M. Peticca-Harris, and Annalisa Murgia for organising it!
41st EGOS Colloquium Creativity that goes a long way Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece July 3-5, 2025 Athens, Greece Under the text is a photo of Athens
July 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Earlier today, I presented at the European Group for Organisational Studies’ (@egosnet.bsky.social‬) annual conference on the Intersectionality, Labour, & Work panel. Thanks to Jenny K. Ridriguez for chairing, and to Alina Dambrosio Clementelli and Dimitria G. Groutsis for excellent presentations!
41st EGOS Colloquium Creativity that goes a long way Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece July 3-5, 2025 Athens, Greece Under the text is a photo of Athens
July 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Earlier today, I presented at @sasemeeting.bsky.social's (SASE) conference on the 'Experiences of Precarious Workers' panel. Thanks to David Joseph-Goteiner for chairing and to Sabina Pultz, Magnus Paulsen, Alzbeta Mangarella and Joaquin Prieto for excellent presentations!
SASE - society for the advancement of socio-economics
July 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Earlier today, I presented at the International Society for Ecological Economics’ (ISEE) 11th International Degrowth Conference on the ‘Organizing labour for and under degrowth trajectories’ panel.

Anne Holohan’s, Anna K. Keil’s, and Pieta Savinotko’s presentations were amazing!
ISEE-Degrowth 2025 logo of a colourful snail with a flower painted on it
June 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM