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Book Review: Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market

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.

Workers’ Inquiry and Co-Research: Fault lines and hope

Following CLaSP’s workshop on Workers’ Inquiry and Co-Research, Suraj Bhaskarrao Telange explores the history of the Workers’ Inquiry method and why Marx’s work has been so important to its development.

Is Sustainable Business an Oxymoron? Rethinking sustainability under capitalism on our new MSc programme

What would it take for our economies and societies to really become sustainable? And how can students develop the knowledge and skills to become global leaders in this process? These are the questions that our new MSc Global Business and Sustainability, launching in September 2025 in QMUL’s School of Business and Management, has been designed to answer.

The revolution shall not be automated: On the political possibilities of activism through data & AI

Reflecting on the “AI revolution”, Isadora Cruxên draws on her experience working with activists in the collaborative project Data Against Feminicide to argue that the politics of data and AI is, at heart, a politics of knowledge production. She invites us all to take part in this conversation.

Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production

The Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP) is an interdisciplinary research centre at Queen Mary University of London that brings together scholars interested in the interconnections between work, enterprises, finance, regulation, and sustainability in the global economy.

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