Will Stronge
@wstronge.bsky.social
Director of @autonomy-institute.bsky.social
Website: autonomy.work
Co-author, with Helen Hester, of Post-work (2025) and, with Kyle Lewis, of Overtime (2021)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-9781350089976/
Website: autonomy.work
Co-author, with Helen Hester, of Post-work (2025) and, with Kyle Lewis, of Overtime (2021)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-9781350089976/
NEW RESEARCH: Givers and takers - to what extent do private companies benefit when they donate to political parties?
The findings are stark.
Link to study here:
autonomy.work/portfolio/gi...
Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Explainer:
The findings are stark.
Link to study here:
autonomy.work/portfolio/gi...
Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Explainer:
October 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
NEW RESEARCH: Givers and takers - to what extent do private companies benefit when they donate to political parties?
The findings are stark.
Link to study here:
autonomy.work/portfolio/gi...
Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Explainer:
The findings are stark.
Link to study here:
autonomy.work/portfolio/gi...
Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Explainer:
Finished this little book from 2017 by @nafeez.bsky.social and it's really insightful.
I'd love to read an updated version, or another book on EROI's relationship to political volatility in 2025.
I'd love to read an updated version, or another book on EROI's relationship to political volatility in 2025.
October 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Finished this little book from 2017 by @nafeez.bsky.social and it's really insightful.
I'd love to read an updated version, or another book on EROI's relationship to political volatility in 2025.
I'd love to read an updated version, or another book on EROI's relationship to political volatility in 2025.
This is tonight in London!
What reform does the UK need around:
Media
Big Tech
Democracy
A LOT to cover. Free wine and soft drinks as standard.
Reserve a spot here: actionnetwork.org/events/forum...
What reform does the UK need around:
Media
Big Tech
Democracy
A LOT to cover. Free wine and soft drinks as standard.
Reserve a spot here: actionnetwork.org/events/forum...
July 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is tonight in London!
What reform does the UK need around:
Media
Big Tech
Democracy
A LOT to cover. Free wine and soft drinks as standard.
Reserve a spot here: actionnetwork.org/events/forum...
What reform does the UK need around:
Media
Big Tech
Democracy
A LOT to cover. Free wine and soft drinks as standard.
Reserve a spot here: actionnetwork.org/events/forum...
2) Media, Tech and Democratic Reform
This will will be IN-PERSON in London and has an incredible panel of speakers.
@jemgilbert.bsky.social
Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths)
Lena Swedlow (Compass)
Adam Cantwell-Corn ( TUC)
Not to be missed! Reserve a spot:
actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
This will will be IN-PERSON in London and has an incredible panel of speakers.
@jemgilbert.bsky.social
Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths)
Lena Swedlow (Compass)
Adam Cantwell-Corn ( TUC)
Not to be missed! Reserve a spot:
actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
June 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
2) Media, Tech and Democratic Reform
This will will be IN-PERSON in London and has an incredible panel of speakers.
@jemgilbert.bsky.social
Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths)
Lena Swedlow (Compass)
Adam Cantwell-Corn ( TUC)
Not to be missed! Reserve a spot:
actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
This will will be IN-PERSON in London and has an incredible panel of speakers.
@jemgilbert.bsky.social
Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths)
Lena Swedlow (Compass)
Adam Cantwell-Corn ( TUC)
Not to be missed! Reserve a spot:
actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
TWO new upcoming Forum 2029 events:
1) Public services: ending austerity logics
Ft.
Anna Coote (New Economics Foundation),
Jamie Driscoll (Majority),
Luke Fletcher MS (Plaid Cymru),
Abby Jitendra (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
actionnetwork.org/events/forum...
1) Public services: ending austerity logics
Ft.
Anna Coote (New Economics Foundation),
Jamie Driscoll (Majority),
Luke Fletcher MS (Plaid Cymru),
Abby Jitendra (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
actionnetwork.org/events/forum...
June 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
TWO new upcoming Forum 2029 events:
1) Public services: ending austerity logics
Ft.
Anna Coote (New Economics Foundation),
Jamie Driscoll (Majority),
Luke Fletcher MS (Plaid Cymru),
Abby Jitendra (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
actionnetwork.org/events/forum...
1) Public services: ending austerity logics
Ft.
Anna Coote (New Economics Foundation),
Jamie Driscoll (Majority),
Luke Fletcher MS (Plaid Cymru),
Abby Jitendra (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
actionnetwork.org/events/forum...
"With every fraction of a degree of warming, the UK will experience hotter, more dangerous heatwaves. That means more heat deaths, more pressure on the NHS, more transport disruptions, and tougher work conditions."
We published 2 papers on exactly this, back in 2023...
We published 2 papers on exactly this, back in 2023...
June 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"With every fraction of a degree of warming, the UK will experience hotter, more dangerous heatwaves. That means more heat deaths, more pressure on the NHS, more transport disruptions, and tougher work conditions."
We published 2 papers on exactly this, back in 2023...
We published 2 papers on exactly this, back in 2023...
4 games I'd give 10/10
May 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
4 games I'd give 10/10
There's something so on the nose about Tony Blair still haunting us, encouraging our doom.
April 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
There's something so on the nose about Tony Blair still haunting us, encouraging our doom.
This was a great episode (the Brassier one). Makes me want to return to Sellars.
April 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This was a great episode (the Brassier one). Makes me want to return to Sellars.
Playing the excellent Billionaires and Guillotines board game with the @autonomy-institute.bsky.social team.
You can support the game here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...
You can support the game here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...
April 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Playing the excellent Billionaires and Guillotines board game with the @autonomy-institute.bsky.social team.
You can support the game here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...
You can support the game here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...
April 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
An awesome evening where we all got to hear about this brilliant new project @carefull.bsky.social.
Very happy to have hosted the eve and discuss all sorts with the panel.
Follow them to hear what comes next!
Very happy to have hosted the eve and discuss all sorts with the panel.
Follow them to hear what comes next!
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
An awesome evening where we all got to hear about this brilliant new project @carefull.bsky.social.
Very happy to have hosted the eve and discuss all sorts with the panel.
Follow them to hear what comes next!
Very happy to have hosted the eve and discuss all sorts with the panel.
Follow them to hear what comes next!
From the workhouse to the labour exchange to Universal Credit, the political debates are the same - they used to be more explicit though.
- how can we make life outside of work intolerable?
- how can welfare infrastructure sort the 'deserving' from the 'underserving'?
- Etc.
- how can we make life outside of work intolerable?
- how can welfare infrastructure sort the 'deserving' from the 'underserving'?
- Etc.
March 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
From the workhouse to the labour exchange to Universal Credit, the political debates are the same - they used to be more explicit though.
- how can we make life outside of work intolerable?
- how can welfare infrastructure sort the 'deserving' from the 'underserving'?
- Etc.
- how can we make life outside of work intolerable?
- how can welfare infrastructure sort the 'deserving' from the 'underserving'?
- Etc.
...A 'blackened' other was needed to discipline workers in the imperial core during industrialism (+ this persists in new forms), whilst during neoliberalism welfare was tightened up to force traditional family setups (single mums were a terrifying archetype for the right)...
March 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
...A 'blackened' other was needed to discipline workers in the imperial core during industrialism (+ this persists in new forms), whilst during neoliberalism welfare was tightened up to force traditional family setups (single mums were a terrifying archetype for the right)...
These two books are working very well in tandem to educate me on what's going on right now.
March 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
These two books are working very well in tandem to educate me on what's going on right now.
This bit was weird wasn't it?
February 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This bit was weird wasn't it?
In good company in Pages in Hackney ❤️
@danhancox.bsky.social @alvagotby.bsky.social
@helenhester.bsky.social
@danhancox.bsky.social @alvagotby.bsky.social
@helenhester.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In good company in Pages in Hackney ❤️
@danhancox.bsky.social @alvagotby.bsky.social
@helenhester.bsky.social
@danhancox.bsky.social @alvagotby.bsky.social
@helenhester.bsky.social
Upon the Autonomy shelf.
February 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Upon the Autonomy shelf.
The new book has arrived! Seven years in the making (very weird to have it in front of me).
Looking forward to hearing what you think:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-...
Looking forward to hearing what you think:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-...
February 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The new book has arrived! Seven years in the making (very weird to have it in front of me).
Looking forward to hearing what you think:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-...
Looking forward to hearing what you think:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-...
This sums it up nicely.
February 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This sums it up nicely.
Enjoyed Kaane festival, where I shared a platform with much more famous people - and where at some point I was beamed into a nearby pub, looking like some kind of dull dictator.
January 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Enjoyed Kaane festival, where I shared a platform with much more famous people - and where at some point I was beamed into a nearby pub, looking like some kind of dull dictator.
Anyone else going to KAANNE festival in Helsinki this weekend - hit me up!
January 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Anyone else going to KAANNE festival in Helsinki this weekend - hit me up!
My boy Cosimo coming through with the Scamorza.
December 18, 2024 at 5:40 PM
My boy Cosimo coming through with the Scamorza.
A great end of year team day❄️🎊
December 18, 2024 at 1:29 PM
A great end of year team day❄️🎊