Sidney Rothstein

Actually I think they voted so hard in Brazil that Lula can be our president now too

You know it’s going to be a good one when @thedigradio.bsky.social won’t even tell you how long the episode is

Register for our AAUP webinar for the 3rd segment of our Toolkit series on intervening in institutional procurement TODAY Wednesday 10/7 at 3pm ET introducing our "Strategy Playbook for Addressing AI at Work" resource with Cynthia Conti-Cook! www.aaup.org/event/strate...

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

New data alert 🚨 - CEO pay surged in 2025, rising 14% to an average $27.9 million - CEOs are paid 325 times as much as the typical worker in their industry - Between 1978 and 2025, top CEO pay rose 1,316% compared to only a 28% increase for typical workers www.epi.org/blog/ceo-pay... #EconSky

7. Everyone would be better off. Well maybe not everyone. Jensen Huang would certainly have a very big sad. But is that a bug or a feature? I think the course is clear. The labs _need_ their workers to unionize if they want to save their profit model. AI Labs of the world unite! [finis].

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My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/

Strong “buy”

So much value: "Samsung's operating profit in the January to March quarter jumped about 750% from a year earlier." So much solidarity: "The union said that 23,000 workers who were making less advanced chips for companies like Tesla and Nvidia should not be left behind." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shame on @wiley.com for extorting authors to feed our work to their AI contractors

And everyone says it's toddlers who are bad at sharing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

Talk alert! Weds, March 4th - @peterbrannen.bsky.social in conversation with me and @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social at Williams College! CO2, geology, AND capitalism. 7:00pm in Wachenheim Room B11, open to the public, books for sale & signing (& cookies) to follow: events.williams.edu/event/the-st...

🚨We're hiring! 🚨 Williams College Department of Political Science is looking for a one-year visiting assistant professor of political science in comparative politics. (Preferred regional focus: Africa and/or South Asia) apply.interfolio.com/181758 Closes Feb 23, 2026

Few books have made such an impact on my thinking recently as Brannen's "The Story of CO2." Can't wait to discuss with @peterbrannen.bsky.social on March 4th. Come by if you're in Western Mass, and if you're not, go get yourself this book!

Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field. Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social Send them your abstracts!

A must read paper on how Big Tech uses start-ups from Spain and Brazil to advance their political interests 👇👇👇

Workers Governing Technologies: Collective Strategies Across Contexts. In-person workshop in Toronto on Sep 25 and 26 with 20 speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Spain and US Registration link and full schedule: www.eventbrite.ca/e/workers-go...

A few things cooler than AI by Andy J. Pizza

"UC Berkeley’s Labor Center launches a new data tool, an inventory of union contracts, to empower labor in negotiating AI and emerging technologies. It provides crucial insights for unions to secure worker protections and shape the future of work." lngfrm.net/uc-berkeley-...

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4). 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

Good week to re-up this report by @ocampomar.bsky.social and @ips-dc.org: Following Massachusetts' Fair Share Amendment (tax on millionaires), did the millionaires leave en masse as they had threatened? No, the millionaires stayed -- and tax revenue increased! ips-dc.org/report-wealt...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

One more piece of (really) good evidence that AI domination of all that is well and good is not a fait accompli. Workers can fight back and decide how AI is governed. New work out by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @guiaoquadrado.bsky.social and André Campos Rocha: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In Montréal for SASE 2025 – or nearby? 🇨🇦 Join us Thursday, July 10 for free public sessions at the Palais des Congrès – no badge needed. Global scholars, union leaders & policymakers discuss labor, social economy & policy innovation. #SASE2025 #Montreal #PublicSessions

Read more about the first-ever content moderator global union alliance here: uniglobalunion.org/news/moderat...

Microsoft fired 6,000 Seattle locals this week so they can set more money on fire for AI and Semafor doesn't think that's worth mentioning despite running with this headline

‘U is for Union!’: Sesame Workshop Workers Win NLRB Election Organizing with the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 153, workers endured aggressive anti-union actions on the part of management in order to secure Thursday's win.

Mass's Fair Share Amendment is one of the most successful policies I've seen in the recent past (it increases funding for child care, ed, health, transit by taxing millionaires) But more millionaires is still a huge policy failure www.boston.com/news/local-n...

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I guess I'm actually proud to be so bad at social media that I did this whole thread to promote my article but forgot to post a link. Anyway, the article is open access, and you can find it here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector Link to open access paper: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... cc @civictechallies.bsky.social @civictechguide.bsky.social

Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards, deadline June 1 2025. Welcoming submissions for monographs, graduate student papers and *social justice awards* which invite tech workers, labor organisers, activists, designers and others! @labortech.bsky.social labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards