Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Will Kendall @willkend.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
@stefaniamarino.bsky.social @stefaniamarino.bsky.social
International Labour Review @ilr-rit.bsky.social Peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and international journal in labour and employment studies, aiming to advance academic research on the world of work.
Megan McMichael @m27-3.bsky.social
Daniel Jordan @danifesto.bsky.social 📝 phd @ glasgow uni
🎮 interested in video games, worker organising, and cultural labour
Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social Labour disciplining & racialised debt | Digital rights of workers | Written: 'Surplused Lives. Roma under Czech racial capitalism.' MUP | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester. past: researcher @amnesty
https://vimeo.com/842892762/c58992
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
Subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk
Ale Mezzadri aka FeministOnMarx. @feministonmarx.bsky.social Global development and social reproduction feminist political economist. Joyful militant for feminist radical theory. Anti-neoliberal mother. Antiracist ally standing for Palestine.
Rand Wilson @randwilson.bsky.social Union organizer, political activist, occasional writer.
Dr Dean Pierides @deancp.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations, @newcastleuni.bsky.social | research is about how organisations deal with uncertainty | dpierides.myportfolio.com | for teaching see: @introorgstudies.bsky.social
Morgan Rhys Powell @mrhyspowell.bsky.social Researcher focused on workers' struggle, organisation and strategy. Own views. he/him.
Work-Net International @worknetint.bsky.social Interdisciplinary network connecting centres and institutes studying work and employment. https://www.wei.manchester.ac.uk/research/networks/work-net-international/
Esme Terry @esmeterry.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Leeds | ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work | Technology, sociology, work and employment
@claudiaplowrob.bsky.social @claudiaplowrob.bsky.social
Laura Jarvis-King @laurajarvisking.bsky.social Research Associate @workequalities.bsky.social
Researcher of time, technology and work
Tom Montgomery @tom-montgomery.bsky.social Lecturer in Work and Organisations at University of Stirling. Research on labour markets, policy, politics, and what to have for lunch...
Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-robert-dorschel
@kendrabriken.bsky.social @kendrabriken.bsky.social
Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com Advocate for reshaping the digitalisation of work & workers | Founder of The Why Not Lab
Ethics of AI, workplace data & AI governance,
data rights. FRSA, member of OECD & UNESCO expert groups on A.I. Trade unionist. Live in 🇩🇰, work 🌏
www.thewhynotlab.com
See Pok Loa @seepokloa.bsky.social Sociologist and Lecturer UniofLeicester School of Management | PhD Oxford Sociology | work culture, freelancing, global gig work, labour time | Former startup creative🧑🏻💻
Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social Charity changing the world through books written by women📚
Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast
🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
Garry Charles @garrycharlesscreenwriter.com Husband, Father, Heart Attack survivor, Screenwriter… THE GETBACK, LIGHTS OUT, 6 HOURS AWAY.
No DM’s please 🙂
British Journal of Industrial Relations @bjireditor.bsky.social A multidisciplinary, international journal of work, labour, and employment relations.
Work, Employment and Society @wesjnl.bsky.social WES is a leading international journal of the BSA. We publish original research on the sociology of work.
Paul Hayes @paulhayes01.bsky.social Senior Policy Fellow, Leeds University Business School. Defrocked #localgov policy bod. Into: Cities, Devo, Councils, Localism and all things The North. Doesn't have a podcast.
Adam Mrozowicki @amrozowicki.bsky.social Sociologist of work, the Head of the Department of the Sociology of Work and Economic Sociology at the University of Wrocław, Poland
Greg Bamber @gregbamber.bsky.social Research in Oz & internationally: AI, new technologies, IR, HR, decent work, workplaces: airlines, hospitals, universities, unions, employers: http://tinyurl.com/Monash-CV
Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social PhD in Social and Political Sciences. Interested in algorithmic management, AI, employment relations, platform work and memes on how academics tend to think too highly of themselves and their work.
New Technology Work & Employment @ntwejournal.bsky.social New Technology, Work and Employment publishes theoretically informed, critical scholarly analysis of the changing nature of work and employment, and its relationship to technology and technological developments.
Gemma Smith @gemmahere.bsky.social Comms + impact, Digital Futures at Work Research Centre @digitcentre.bsky.social | Opinions are still mine.
Stewart Johnstone @johnstonestew.bsky.social Professor, HRM & Employment Relations. Work and employment researcher. Worker voice. Employment restructuring. Good work. Improving work and working lives. Glasgow.- A Anthony Rafferty @arafferty.bsky.social Professor and Director of the Work and Equalities Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester University.
Charles Umney @charlesumney.bsky.social Industrial relations, technology, sociology of work. Currently focused on technological change in warehousing work among other things. Co-author "Marketization" (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marketization-9781913441463/
Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social Independent writer and researcher. Feminist. Editor of the journal 'Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation'. Retired from academia. Working on a new book. Blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. Please DON'T message me if seeking romance.
Vix Voxel @vixvoxel.bsky.social PhD student in Work & Employment (SW & Platforms). Background in Photography, Lighting & Psychology. Interdisciplinary nerd. Neurospicy. Goth. Pun lover.
@nroby.bsky.social @nroby.bsky.social
@lilithbrouwers.bsky.social @lilithbrouwers.bsky.social
Hannah Preston @hannahpreston.bsky.social Research Communications Manager at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.
Big fan of reading (literary fiction, historical fiction, memoirs, anything to do with circuses or lighthouses...), and going to gigs and the theatre.
Jack Daly @xjackdaly.bsky.social Researcher in gender & employment relations | Leeds United, terrible music and a lot of typos | He/Him
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Giorgos Gouzoulis @ggouzoulis.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Author, 𝘿𝙚𝙗𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙨 (@brisunipress.bsky.social, 2026)
Genevieve Coderre-LaPalme @gencoderrelapalme.bsky.social Lecturer in employment relations at University of Glasgow.
Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/delbridger
Cardiff, mostly…
Valerio De Stefano @valeriodeste.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com Research on work and organising. Editor of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.
ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) @digitcentre.bsky.social The ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) aims to advance our understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping work.
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
Dr Calum Carson @drcalumcarson.bsky.social Senior Policy Adviser at Acas, leading on flexible working and zero-hours contracts. Wider research interests include Decent Work/Future of Work/Living Wages. Photographer. Forever looking for a dog to pet.
Jeremias Adams-Prassl @jeremiasprassl.bsky.social Law @Oxford, currently visiting @Melbourne. Interested in algorithmic management, the future of work, and tech regulation.
Water enthusiast
Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social Author of CYBERBOSS. Work at LSE. Part of StreamArtNetwork. Critical algorithm studies, livestreaming, solidarity, labour, hybrid media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Previously Novara Media. http://c-gent.net/
https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Tom Barnes @drtombarnes.bsky.social Sociologist of work & economy, Australian Catholic University, researching warehouse logistics, auto manufacturing, precarity, labour regimes, India, Australia
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
Find out more here: linktr.ee/IPPR
Abigail Harrington @abigailharrington.bsky.social PhD student @uniofBirmingham Interests: digitalisation of work, platformization, AI and the future of work, resistance,collective action. MScR @UvA_AISSR
Ryan Lamare @ryanlamare.bsky.social Employment Relations and HRM Professor at LSE. BJIR Editor-in-Chief. Avid runner and dog lover. Aotearoa born and raised.
Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso. New articles on “beyond capitalism” in NLR and at my website. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social Sociologist. Socialist. UCU Branch Rep. I write about capitalism, work, management, and class.
Decent at bike polo. Local croquet champ
www.mattvidal.com
Kirsty Newsome @kirstynewsome.bsky.social Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Decent Work, University of Sheffield
Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex.
Heterodox Marxist - Les dés sont pipés!
mattcole.work
Sean O'Brady @sobrady.bsky.social Assistant Professor, McMaster University | Interested in helping workers boost their wages, obtain data rights, and build collective power
Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social Longtime student of work, technology, and class domination. Current research centers on labor platforms and logistics workers at Amazon. Dogs, forestry, Celtics, & Frankfurt School among my passions.
Tony Dundon @tonydundon.bsky.social Professor, Work&Employment @ul. Fellow @AcadSocSciences @WorkEqualities Dad, Everton Fan, Humanist. Own views (obviously). Re-tweets not an endorsement.
Danat Valizade @vdanat.bsky.social Professor at University of Leeds. Researching past, present and future of work.
Huw Thomas @huwthomas.bsky.social Assistant Professor University College Dublin (UCD) - global labour governance, international employment relations, future of work.
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
Ian Greer @ianithacagreer.bsky.social Industrial relations academic involved in various labor struggles. Cornell-ILR Ithaca Co-Lab. Marketization book with Charles Umney. Current research on re-entry, electric vehicle transition, living wage, unemployment.
Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social Professor ILR School - Global Labor and Work. Unions & AI in telecoms, game development, ICT industry. Co-Editor ILR Review.
Scott Hurrell @scottalexander19.bsky.social Work & employment academic, trade unionist, and social scientist. Love to wonder at the world but increasingly screaming at it. Sports nut (esp. ⚽️ ⛷️& 🏏).
Views my own (if the self exists 🤷🏼♂️).
Institute for Employment Studies @employmentstudies.bsky.social IES is a centre for research and evidence-based consultancy in labour market analysis, employment, education and HR policy and practice.
Work and Equalities Institute @workequalities.bsky.social www.wei.manchester.ac.uk
Research institute at The University of Manchester. Research themes include: Work Futures, Fairness and Wellbeing in the Workplace, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Regulation and representation.
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social Professor of Global Labour. Co-Editor in Chief - New Technology Work and Employment.
Interests include: Marxist-Feminism, sex work, feminist activism, self-employment, work and technology, gender, decolonial theory.
Ceri Hughes @ceridwenhughes.bsky.social British Academy Fellow researching insecure work, activation & work-related conditionality
Based at Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester. Visiting Fellow, CASE, LSE
Chris Forde @chrisforde.bsky.social Professor of Employment Studies, CERIC, University of Leeds. Researching work, employment, HRM, migration, the gig economy.
TonyDobbins @tdobbo.bsky.social Interested in work and employment relations, and other things in life outside the world of work: hiking, footy (YNWA), cycling, nature, music. Plebeian origins. Greatest achievements: seeing a stoat in winter ermine, a badger 🦡and rescuing a hedgehog 🦔
Andy Hodder @hodderandy.bsky.social Professor of Employment Relations, Birmingham, UK. Co-EiC: @ntwejournal.bsky.social. Posts about work, employment research (focus primarily on unions in the UK). With occasional posts on and music and football!
M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social ‘Bent in emptiness over emptiness but flying’(Hughes); cooperatives & radical democracy; labour relations academic; born Paddington to exiles, live Leeds, work Manchester.
Xanthe Whittaker @xanthewhittaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Work & Employment Relations | Future of work | AI & data tech at work | Inequalities at work | Care work | Dancer | Skater 🛼
London/Leeds
The Politics of Equality at Work @politicsofequality.bsky.social A 3 year ESRC-funded project researching how equality at work has developed across different national and institutional contexts, based at the Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester.
https://politicsofequalityatwork.manchester.ac.uk/
CERIC @ceric-lubs.bsky.social The Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change at Leeds University Business School. Researching employment relations and the changing world of work. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-ceric
Asiya Islam @asiyaislam.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at LSE | Researching gender, work, digitalisation in the Global South | Editorial roles at Feminist Review & Otherwise Magazine
Jo Cutter @jocutter.bsky.social Work & employment relations research @CERIC_LUBS #workers #climatechange #TransiciónJusta #migration #skills @limits_project #unitetheunion
#Bradford #Granada
https://business.leeds.ac.uk/divisions-work-employment-relations/staff/513/jo-cutter
Nye Cominetti @nyecominetti.bsky.social At Resolution Foundation covering labour market, low pay, living wage.
Erin Kelly @elkelly.bsky.social sociologist, MIT Sloan, work, inequalities, future of work but not tech obsessed, gender-work-family, etc
Melanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social Professor of Work and Employment. Specialism in unions and worker voice. Promoter of social sciences. Fascinated by pretty much everything. She/her
Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social Incurable sociologist @lsesociology.bsky.social - Work, migration, social inequality and a bit of conflict. Co-founder MSc International Migration and Public Policy @LSE. ⚽️
Andy Charlwood @profandyc.bsky.social Management academic
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.