Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment @Sussexuni | Co-Investigator @digitcentre | Les dés sont pipés
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My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @VersoBooks in May, 2026!
This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.
UK pre-order: waterstones.com/book/unpaid/…
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Andreas Malm was coming to London to discuss his groundbreaking piece in the latest Tribune magazine
New editor @Oliver_Eagleton is fast turning Tribune into the most exciting left journal in English-speaking world
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“The major tech names are entering a no man’s land where they become uninvestable”
Perhaps the AI bubble has finally burst.
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Verso Books condemns the Labour government’s decision to ban one of our leading authors, Andreas Malm, from entering the United Kingdom.
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Pretty compelling argument for full-scale neo-Luddism from
@MattColeWorks: tribunemag.co.uk/author/matt…
I’ve spoken to people directly involved at Cambridge and there was no plagiarism.
Corfas is a desperate loon trying to keep his failing career afloat.
Only the Reform student society at Oriel College in Oxford seems to want to touch him.
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If you have ever had to use your own means of production – your car when working for Uber, your computer when working for cloud companies – and shoulder the associated costs, your boss is committing wage theft. (2/4)
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Your boss is probably stealing from you.
If you have ever had to work unpaid overtime, your boss is committing wage theft. (1/4)
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“If capital is rewriting the rules of work, then workers must rewrite the terms of resistance. In seizing data rights, workers can turn AI from a tool of extraction into a tool for democratic power.”
—@MattColeWorks
@future_of_music @MusicWorkers @human_artistry @AFLCIO
"AI is essentially theft. The data that AI systems need is often not acquired by entirely lawful, let alone fair, means. AI companies expropriate human knowledge, automate labor processes, patent them, and then attempt to sell all this back to us."
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"AI is essentially theft. The data that AI systems need is often not acquired by entirely lawful, let alone fair, means. AI companies expropriate human knowledge, automate labor processes, patent them, and then attempt to sell all this back to us."
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.@MattColeWorks on how as app-based gig work becomes increasingly common, exploitation grows more sophisticated and harder to detect.
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In Unpaid: The Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft, @MattColeWorks upends conventional wisdom about how we value work, exposing wage theft as one of capitalism’s enduring open secrets.
Out now!
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Why does your boss get away with stealing from you?
@MattColeWorks and @broseph_stalin sit down to discuss why the persistence of wage theft isn't just the result of greedy capitalists, but a feature of capitalism itself.
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Pleasure to be part of the journey for the brilliant first book by @MattColeWorks at @vocebooks - excoriating, educative and hopeful as he lays out how wage theft happens and how we might get past it. Everyone needs to read this book.
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Hard to think of a greater honor than to be considered The Economist‘s intellectual enemy #1.
My work is “intellectual ballast” for the largest number of Americans since 1975 wanting government to “improve the standard of living” of the poor, cut their costs, raise their incomes and stop AI from wrecking society, they say. Dream of an endorsement. Thank you @TheEconomist!
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“The battle between oligarchic forces and democratic forces is the battle of the 21st century.”
On Downstream, French economist @Gabriel_Zucman explains that billionaires save almost 100% of their income – so their wealth grows faster than everyone else.
“If we don’t break that spiral, we’re going to see more wealth at the top and more concentration of power,” he explains.
A century ago, the world invented progressive income taxation. Now, Zucman argues, we need progressive wealth taxation.
Watch the full conversation between Zucman and @AaronBastani on our YouTube.
Today is launch day for my book! I’ll be talking about the history of wages and property as well as the future of unpaid labour tonight at Peer in London.
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Without exploitation, capitalism simply cannot survive.
Matthew Cole explains. @MattColeWorks
Wage theft dwarfs all other types of theft by billions!
That's why I wrote a book about it.
@hasanthehun you might be interested?
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