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.
How green bonds hit the ground: Notes from Brazilian agribusiness
A new financial tool has emerged with the promise of meeting both sustainability goals and investors’ appetite for new assets: green bonds. In this blog post, Vanessa Perin explains how green bonds intersect with Brazil’s agribusiness sector and landscapes to produce unintended effects.
Political economy in the era of climate capitalism: Thoughts on Dieselgate, carbon fetishism and libidinal economy
Do you remember the Dieselgate scandal that the German car giant Volkswagen was involved with? In this short essay, Steffen Boehm argues the scandal can be read through the lens of “carbon fetichism”: an extreme obsession with carbon emissions that has taken hold of large parts of environmental policymaking and activism. Read on!
How Javier Milei’s ‘anarcho-capitalism’ is set to deepen extractivism in Argentina
Policy reform proposals from ultra-right libertarian and self-defined ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president, promise transformation but risk deepening extractivism. Read more from Paula Serafini!
Regional Value Chains and Governance of Decent Work in Sub-Saharan Africa
New research on horticulture and garment value chains in Kenya and South Africa sheds light onto rising South-South trade and the emergence of domestic and regional value chains.
Financialised capitalism and emerging economies
How does finance work through global production networks to produce highly unequal economic realities? Read more about the work of Jeff Powell and co-authors on financialised capitalism to find out.
From CLGP to CLaSP
In our inaugural post, we recover the history of CLaSP since its foundation in 2016, delineating how the Centre has evolved to pursue distinct threads of work that unpack business and management in historically informed and politically engaged ways.
