Vallas work in the platform economy video1040665588 YouTube video by Steve Vallas

Here's a short interview I did on the politics of platform capitalism, with thanks to Harvard student Nina Jensen. Comments welcome!
youtu.be/5VXa0eLbnU0

Labor scholars and students of the platform economy will want to check out my review of Kathleen Thelen's new book, *Attention Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy*

Herewith the link: www.wipsociology.org

Recommended!

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

Simple step: Minneapolis police should identify and arrest any and all criminals wearing ICE or CBP badges. That’s not radical; it’s called law enforcement.

Anyone know much about Amazon Haul? It doesn’t yet work, but it seems to disintermediate its supply chains -it puts consumers directly in touch with foreign producers, undercutting brand name companies. Tariff avoidance maybe? Share observations.

Thrilled to share the transcript of our conversation with Hatim Rahman regarding his new book, *Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers* (with many thanks to Lindsay Cameron):
wipsociology.org/2025/05/20/author-meets-critics-engaging-hatim-rahmans-inside-the-invisible-cage/

Even primary school kids have more wisdom than the mad king has developed in his seventy very odd years.

Best part is the teacher’s approval at the bottom.

Ice director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’ Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

The Nazis relied on Taylorism in the death camps so this is in character, no? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The last time I remember hearing a senior official claiming that the markets weren’t exhibiting systemic problems was (wait for it) August 2007. This is terrifying.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Crash dummy is in charge

So at what point does the capitalist class, fractured and ill educated though it might be, actually begin to feel a smidgeon of buyer’s remorse?

Why would you make a deal with a lawless madman?

Totally true. Theodore Adorno very much agreed. See also the recent discussion in Toscano, Late Fascism, which perfectly agrees with your post.

Sharing this with @marionf.bsky.social and @kjhealy.co

One of the more provocative books on digital capitalism that’s recently appeared is THE ORDINAL SOCIETY by Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy. Attached here is my review.

www.wipsociology.org/2025/03/04/c...

Jeff Bezos has just opted to end all opinion pieces at the Washington Post that fail to advance Hayekian “personal liberties and free markets.” Another pillar of democracy crushed in the blink of an eye. Just cancelled.

More than 230,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship Experts say the effort, which is not expected to succeed, reflects anger over Musk’s alliance with Trump, who has threatened Canada with tariffs and annexation.

Just his Canadian citizenship?
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The last but definitely not the least keynote speaker for #WORK2025fi conference is Emeritus Professor Steven Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social (USA) with the title “Platform Capitalism Revisited: The Coming of Algorithmic Society.”

Submit your abstract by 20 February at www.work2025.fi!

Let’s call things by their right names…

The British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social have removed replaced "gender" with "sex" in their member equality survey, and erased the "non-binary" response option entirely.

Love to see the professional body of sociology echoing Donald Trump.

Yeah but the submission systems are uniformly user hostile so there’s that too.

Saw this over on Threads, and, yeah…

Happy to share link to our blog post “Republic of Fear? Complexity and Coercion in Amazon’s Warehouses”

www.wipsociology.org/2025/01/20/r...