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Race, Profit, and Algorithms: How iBuyers Leverage Neighbourhood Inequality
Race, Profit, and Algorithms: How iBuyers Leverage Neighbourhood Inequality

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—a new class of real estate actors in the United States. Read on!

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Book Review: Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice by Joan Martínez-Alier
Book Review: Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice by Joan Martínez-Alier

Joan Martínez-Alier’s latest book offers important evidence on why the environmentalism of the poor is key to socioecological transformation. Also, it doesn’t shy away from thorny subjects.

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Book round-up: Latest works by CLaSP members
Book round-up: Latest works by CLaSP members
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Ctrl+Alt+Union: Game workers’ struggle and unionisation
Ctrl+Alt+Union: Game workers’ struggle and unionisation

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.

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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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Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier
May 28
Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier

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