In the new blogpost, I give my response to the two recent reviews of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ and reflect on the relevance of everyday struggle for the current debates on the agency of the subordinate.

The book is now out in paperback!

http://alexandrinavanke.com/2026/02/02/new-in-paperback-the-urban-life-of-workers-in-post-soviet-russia-and-the-relevance-of-everyday-struggle/

#workers #inequality #everydaystruggle

The Billionaire Fantasy: Robot Workers Who Never Unionise

https://youtube.com/shorts/R91sOR9QSjw?si=-B2K5jRGlRfQt9HZ

#EveryoneHatesElon #ElonMusk #unionise #Billionaire #robot #workers #WorkersRights

To counter the rise of AI, is the answer 'friction-maxing'? - making the inconvenient valuable - from calling in-person meetings, to reading books (rather than summaries), by preferring exercise classes (to the Peleton in the front room) and so on...

The rise of AI has spurred a cottage industry in predicting the sort of jobs that will survive based on issues of proximity & physical-personal service.

Friction-maxing applies that logic to our everyday lives as well.

#AI #workers
h/t FT

"The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs report shows some striking disparities: 91,000 women left the labor force last month, compared to 10,000 men who joined the labor force last month. If we zoom out to look at all of 2025, men’s labor force size grew by 572,000, while women’s grew by only 184,000. That means men joined the labor market at a rate three times greater than women."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2026/01/14/women-made-up-nearly-all-the-job-losses-last-month-heres-why/

#PublicHealth #workers #labor #employment #gender #diversity #equity #inclusion

EXCELLENT. As it should be. Although #police #unions are separate/apart from actual organized #labor, they are #workers - and Americans, humans - also, and should also be explicit in their opposition to federal troops' combat against the US. (Someone please tell them that they are American workers; that police and people have very real common interest.)

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/31/labor-against-ice-portland-oregon-immigration-protest/

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/31/labor-against-ice-portland-oregon-immigration-protest/

#ICE #Protest #Union #Labor #Resist #Activism #Portland #Oregon #Workers #politics #uspol #uspolitics #USA #America #1stAmendment #FirstAmendment #Freedom #Democracy #CBP #tRump #PNW #Law #Justice #ANTIFA #Peaceful #Organized #OPB #NPR #Constitution #HumanRights #Saturday #Indivisible #Immigration #Movement #defundice #Congress #USSenate #Senate #Strike #News

Dan McAteer (@daniel_mac8)

OpenClaw(구 moltbot, 구 clawdbot)에 $1,400짜리 맥 미니 없이 참여하는 방법 안내. 필요한 건 $5짜리 Cloudflare Workers 계정뿐이며 설치용 GitHub 링크는 첫 리플에 있다고 알림.

https://x.com/daniel_mac8/status/2017575542623506727

#openclaw #moltbot #cloudflare #workers #github