Alex Wood
alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social
Cambridge Economic Sociologist. Researching and teaching digital technology, work, power, and capitalism. Book: 'Despotism On Demand' https://academic.oup.com/cornell-scholarship-online/book/37473 https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/alex-wood
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www.theworkersunion.com/2025/06/03/g... great write up of our latest research publication with @alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social on the Workers Union website
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What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age? Thrilled about this new open-access paper with @islandexpress in @compchange.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1177/1024... It's packed with ideas. A thread of it's key interventions:
Show Post1. We argue that emergent unions like Connect_IFAT and TGPWU in India's gig and platform sector aren’t just 'new' unions & orgs. They're part of a longer history of formal & informal labour struggles, pulling from Reena Agarwala's 1st, 2nd & 3rd waves of legal empowerment.
Show Post6.And we set them up globally. From recent work by Umney et al. @digitcentre.bsky.social to @alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social and others', we attempt to situate Indian gig worker organising in a wider international conversation. There are patterns, but also crucial divergences
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Meanwhile, Sharon Osbourne thinks telling people about Israeli war crimes at Coachella "compromised its moral and spiritual integrity”....
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