karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social assistant prof @ univ of virginia // lead organizer w @labortechresearchnetwork.org // tech, labor, culture // karinaripley.com
Zizi Li, Ph.D. @zizilizizi.bsky.social ✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher
👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies
✍🏼 Digital Cultures, Media Arts, Labor, Technologies
https://www.zizili.net
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
@mirandabanks.bsky.social @mirandabanks.bsky.social
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social "Chi ha compagni non morirà."
(Franco Fortini)
Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com Research on work and organising. Editor of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.
Søren Mau @sorenmau.bsky.social
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social Political Economist | Green Marxist | TikTok: comrade_ashok | twitter: broseph_stalin
https://monopsonycapitalism.com/
Esther Rose Leslie @afoggyplace.bsky.social Somers Towner, militant aesthete.
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Studies, Digital Media and Technopolitics at the University of Naples L'Orientale. Author: Network Culture (2004), After the Internet (2022)
Joshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social visiting assistant professor in film+media studies
critical theory, labour, cinema, aesthetics
Pietro Bianchi @pietrobianch1.bsky.social Living between Gainesville (Florida) and Bergamo (Italy) | Assistant Professor in Film Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Florida | film critic at e-flux, Cineforum, Doppiozero, DinamoPress
Ling Zhang @lingzhang.bsky.social Cinema and media studies scholar/film sound and acoustic culture/third world cultural exchange during the cold war/revolutionary feminism/ Chinese-language cinema and media/labor and cinema/workers’ amateur music: https://purchase.academia.edu/LingZhang
joey van der naald @jvandernaald.bsky.social PhD candidate in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, researcher at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Lynne Andersson @darksilveroak.bsky.social 🌹 * wayward business school prof at temple u: labor movement, sustainability, critical management studies * TAUP * grown girls & plott hound mama * trail tripper
Cedric de Leon @prof-deleon.bsky.social Prof of Sociology & Labor Studies UMass Amherst
cedricdeleon.com- S Stephanie Luce @stephluce.bsky.social Professor of labor studies and sociology, union member. Co-author of Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World.
Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social General Counsel, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON).
Faculty, UCLA Labor Studies Department
Follower of @marjoriegarcia.bsky.social
Vituperative tweeter w/ a gentle heart
Jason Kosnoski @jasonkosnoski.bsky.social Professor of Pol. Sci. UMich-Flint. Political Theory and Labor Studies. AFT 5671 member. Author "The Political Theory of Salvage" https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Political-Theory-of-Salvage. Opinions solely my own and do not reflect my institution.
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social
I teach American Studies, labor history, and abolitionist university studies. Also I post about birds.
https://abolition.university/
Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social American labor history / Jewish studies / digital humanities
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
UC-AFT Comms crew
memorywork.irle.ucla.edu
carolineluce.com
Charmaine Chua @charmainechua.bsky.social Prof @ Berkeley Geography writing a book on the history of the "logistics counterrevolution.” Geography, political economy, labor studies. www.charmainechua.com
Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social Lecturer in US History & Labor Studies at UC Irvine & UCLA. VP of Leg, UC-AFT, AFT Local 1474. LAWCHA Board. FOIA user. Co-Founder, Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project. Gen X in Long Beach, CA. Higher Ed blog: https://campuslabor.substack.com/
Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social I teach U.S. history & labor studies at a public university in California. First 40 years in the Midwest. Posting personal opinions about labor & migration history, worker organizing, higher ed policy, Midwest politics and regionalism. He/him.
Leshu Torchin @eltorchin.bsky.social Film and Media Studies academic, swan enthusiastic, animal lover.
Talk to me about politics, labour, culture, disability, mockumentary, documentary, and more. I contain multitudes.
Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com Union Researcher. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily / DiamonCentric / Baseball Prospectus contributor) plabuza @ gmail.
www.labuzamovies.com
Kate Fortmueller @kfortmueller.bsky.social Media industries, labor, and unions.
Author of Below the Stars & Hollywood Shutdown (both 2021), Co-editor, Hollywood Unions (2025), Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers w/ @mirandabanks.bsky.social (2026).
Assoc. Prof @GSU
Or Shay @orshay.bsky.social PhD student at Cornell ILR. Interested in industrial relations, labor policy, unions, and teacher labor. Before that, I was a labor lawyer.
Chris Zepeda-Millan @profczm.bsky.social Profe @UCLA, Chair of Labor Studies, Political Scientist, Fac. Dir. of UCLA Strategic Research Lab, Teach/Write about Social Movements, Immigration, Race & Labor 🌵🌹
Workers Unite Film Festival @workersuniteff.bsky.social Season 15 celebrating global labor solidarity 10/23-11/5! Donate: bit.ly/DonateWUFF14 Resist and organize to save workers' rights. Submissions open.
LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social The global trade union movement's news and campaigns service. www.LabourStart.org
Disablement, Free Time & Work Under Capitalism @disprecwork.bsky.social Exploring the politics of disablement, paid & unpaid work under capitalism & 'free time' | @cerasellachis.bsky.social
disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | free time | bread and roses | #book | #PolEcon | sociology
Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social Free Higher Ed Now!: A Day of Higher For the Common Good. Join us on April 16 and 17, 2026. https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/
Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social Robbins Chair in US History, WVU
Writer, historian, educator, snacker, gardener
'Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican & Southern White Women Fought for a Place in American Working Class'
US labor, women & global capitalism, pop culture reps of work & wealth
UCLA Labor Center @uclalabor.bsky.social Advancing worker justice in Los Angeles and across the world. | https://labor.ucla.edu/
Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social Avuncular unionist, uxorious husband, labor historian, cat guy. "Who's Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions" available now. Lives in Minnesota. Posts are personal. The cat in the profile pic is Laverne, aka Peanut.
https://bit.ly/4l7Avet
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Benjamin @benjamincrais.bsky.social
Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social Communication and Labour Studies prof at SFU. Forza Roma, ovunque e comunque.
Smut Nerd @amydoesresearch.bsky.social Part time PhD, full time porn nerd. Thesis: Labours and Labour Structures in Pornography Work
Also on insta (@amydoesresearch) and OF (SmutNerd)
Support my smutty studies via ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/amydoesresearch
Anemone Patens @anemonepatens.bsky.social Historian of Canada (welfare state, public/mental health, health occupations); labour studies. Parent, cyclist, photographer, woodworker. Unlikely ever to post.
Gabriela @gabrielajm.bsky.social Researcher at the University of Padua, Sociology, labour studies. 🇨🇱🇮🇹🍉
Olivia Maury @oliviamaury.bsky.social University lecturer (sociology), researcher in critical migration studies and platform labour studies
Thomas Siddall @thmsdl.bsky.social phd student in geography at the national university of singapore w/ interests in labour, infrastructure, cultural economy, & queer studies | 📩: thmsdl@proton.me
Marjo Ylhäinen @marjoy.bsky.social I'm interested in labor law, precarious work, academia, education, socio-legal studies and life in general. Associate professor in labour law at UEF.
Saku Pinta @tbayslim.bsky.social Labour Studies instructor @ University of Manitoba. Being common without being ordinary. Hockey & Class Struggle.
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.
Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social UTS Political Economist & labour historian. Editor Social Movement Studies & Associate at The Centre Future Work. Cats. Electroclash. Carlton AFL tragic 🌈
Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University
Unions | Labour Politics | Social Movements
Yuliya Kosyakova @yuliyakosyakova.bsky.social Professor at the University of Bamberg |
Head of the Research Department for Migration and International Labour Studies at the Institute for Employment Research | Sociology | ISA RC28 treasury/secretary
Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social Labour Studies Professor at Brock University | Teach & research collective bargaining, unions & labour politics |
brocku.ca/lsavage
Alexander Gallas @alexandergallas.bsky.social Strikes | Global Labour Studies | Class & State Theory | Conjunctural Analysis
Streiks | Globale Arbeitsstudien | Klassen- & Staatstheorie | Konjunkturanalyse Political Scientist @ Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social List of *online* and *open access* collections of historical documents relating to radical history (broadly defined). Nearly 1000 collections from around the world listed (and always looking for more).
Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social The Barbara Woodhouse of llamas. Mainly politics and cute animals, with occasional images from the archives. For the day job, follow the Irish Cultural and Media History blog at irishmediahistory.com
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Radical Humanities Laboratory @radhumslab.bsky.social Post- and anti- disciplinary practices // experimental humanities research // critical collaborations // new engagements // transformations
https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Pooja Sastry 🍉 @theunkindcity.bsky.social ಲಾಲ್ ಸಲಾಮ್! PhD student @ucddublin.bsky.social hegemonic spatial imaginaries, critical AI. Oppressor caste; learning to be a better ally. any pronouns 🏳️🌈
Committee for Autonomous Social Action - CASA, HGT @casahgt.bsky.social To promote the unity of all workers and their families and to conduct social and political actions designed to strengthen the working class movement. (https://casahgt.org/)
Strike Map @strikemap.org Putting struggle on the map across Britain and the Island of Ireland. Partnership with @gftu.org.uk. Submit a strike today #strikemap.
All our links: beacons.ai/strikemap
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.
LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social LAWCHA promotes public and scholarly awareness of labor and working-class history through research, writing, and organizing. Find us here: http://lawcha.org & http://lhrp.georgetown.edu
Join here: http://lawcha.org/join/
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social The Labor Center conducts research and education on issues related to labor and employment. Our trainings serve to educate a diverse new generation of labor leaders. We also engage UC Berkeley students in learning about the labor movement.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Center for Labor and a Just Economy | HLS @cljeharvard.bsky.social CLJE is Harvard Law School's hub of collaborative research, policy, and strategies to empower working people to build an equitable economy and democracy. Visit us: https://clje.law.harvard.edu/
Labor History Resource Project @laborhistoryres.bsky.social We are the Labor History Resource Project (#LHRP). We aim to elevate the images, words, voices, and films of workers in the past and present. We are a collaborative effort of scholars, activists, and supporters. linktr.ee/laborhistory
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion
Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social Putting the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. linktr.ee/labornotes
ITH @ithvienna.bsky.social Founded in 1964 the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) is an international network of historians concerned with the history of labour.
Canadian Committee on Labour History @cclh.bsky.social The Canadian Committee on Labour History studies and promotes the history of working people in Canada.
cclh.ca
Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
Editors: @jasminefolz.bsky.social
@letha-b.bsky.social @valuequestion.bsky.social
Radical History Review @radhistreview.bsky.social Where rigorous historical scholarship and active political engagement converge. Published by @dukepress.bsky.social
3x yearly. Digital companion site: @abusablepast.bsky.social
British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) @buiraonline.bsky.social Association for academics, research students and practitioners interested in industrial and labour relations, and the politics of work. RTs not endorsements.
www.buira.net
Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies @uwbridgescenter.bsky.social Labor education and research at the University of Washington - linktr.ee/uwbridgescenter
UCLA IRLE @uclairle.bsky.social Advancing labor research and education for workplace justice via our units –– UCLA's Labor Center, UCLA LOSH, UCLA HAART and the UCLA Labor Studies Department.
Sign up to receive our weekly labor news digest: bit.ly/IRLE_LaborReads
CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies @cunyslu.bsky.social The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU) offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Labor Studies and Urban Studies: slu.cuny.edu
LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social The official journal of @lawcha.bsky.social. Published by @dukepress.bsky.social
To access all issues of LABOR visit https://read.dukeupress.edu/labor
Fórsa trade union @forsatradeunion.bsky.social Join a trade union that wins - join Fórsa! Representing workers in public service, private sector, state agencies & community and voluntary sector.
https://linktr.ee/forsaunion for Fórsa links
go.bsky.app/7qXuGyy Irish trade unions starter pack
Michael Taft @michael-taft.bsky.social Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, Researcher for SIPTU.
Blogs at www.notesonthefront.org
Praxis the Artists' Union of Ireland @praxisunion.bsky.social Empowering artists power in their places of work and committed to improving their living and working conditions.
Join: https://www.praxisunion.ie/join/
Info: info@praxisunion.ie
CWU Ireland @cwuireland.bsky.social The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) is Ireland’s Premier Trade Union for Postal, Logistics, Telecoms, Tech and Call Centre Workers.
https://linktr.ee/cwuire
@ifut.bsky.social @ifut.bsky.social
Labour Behind the Label @labourlabel.bsky.social Fighting alongside workers for a fashion industry where exploitation has no place. Join the movement! #LivingWageNow
UCD College of Arts & Humanities @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social Official account for the College of Arts & Humanities at UCD, Ireland. Follow us to keep up with College news and events #HelloUCD
UCD College of Social Sciences and Law @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social UCD College of Social Sciences and Law official Bluesky account.
https://www.ucd.ie/socscilaw/
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
plutobooks.com
New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
Endnotes @endnotesjournal.bsky.social endnotes.org.uk
Marxism in Culture @marxisminculture.bsky.social The Marxism in Culture seminar series was conceived in 2002 to provide a forum for those committed to the continuing relevance of Marxism for cultural analysis. We meet 3-4 times a term on Fridays at 5.30pm at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
@notesfrombelow.bsky.social @notesfrombelow.bsky.social
Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly.
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/
PSA Labour Movements Specialist Group @psalabmovements.bsky.social We are the Labour Movements Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social)
Web: https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/labour-movements
Brock Labour Studies @brocklabour.bsky.social Brock University Department of Labour Studies.
Also on Facebook & Instagram.
https://brocku.ca/social-sciences/labour-studies/