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As a 'left academic' why on earth was your first impulse to talk to the THE for a hit piece, rather than raise your concerns with the people who passed the motion of your branch (if you're in one)?
But the strategy leans on point b) 'cannot be settled without him exercising a power conferred on him by or under an enactment.' The enactment in this case being HERA 2017.
Fairly scabby hatchet job this, given the strategy has come from the rank and file and is backed by legal advice. What's your alternative proposal in the current situation?
What's also funny is the idea that organising workers in the complex supply chain of weapons manufacturing indulges in old ideas of effective agency, while assuming 1-day external disruptions of these workplaces doesnt also indulge in an old idea of how production is disrupted.
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But these are specialist argument-makers, nothing about their profession predisposes them to spend time practically changing the world. Doing that would prevent them doing their job, which is research, competently composing arguments and valorising their academic capital etc.
Yeh, alota ppl forgot about this one too.
Tbh, I don't really understand why people expect academics to act outwith their class interests. Obviously the changes in the sector mean that for some these class interests are decomposing....
Guy is a walking platitude merchant. It blows my mind how much attention a mildly good-looking male academic can get while spouting the most hackneyed leftoid sentiments.
In 2020, PhD students in his depart at Goldsmiths did a wildcat marking boycott. Staff in the dept phoned the PhD students threatening to do the marking if they didn't. Hickel then chaired a meeting in which the Anthrop staff explained their reasoning for sinking the action.
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Michael Burawoy vient de mourir. Il était depuis longtemps l’un des sociologues marxistes les plus créatifs. Nous lui rendons hommage en republiant cet entretien, dans lequel il revient sur ses travaux les plus marquants et défend une sociologie engagée 👇
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BREAKING: Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA.
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