Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Quest for Decent Work
A large scale study confirms that labour platforms, also known as crowdwork, are exploitative.
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Trump May Get Much of the World’s Manufacturing Out of China, but It Won’t Be Coming Back to the U.S.
Chimerica” is dead—even if Trump’s trade war ends in a draw.
Read more...The US Massively Underestimates the Trade War Blowback
US trade and economic sanctions not only have not delivered on their stated aims, but they’ve also had unwelcome side effects.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Brexit Yellowhammer Is Wrong, but That Doesn’t Mean We Should Ignore It
The Brexit headlines focused on Yellowhammer when that isn’t the biggest development of the day.
Read more...Who’s Responsible for the Ecocide in the Amazon
Ecocode is profitable, so follow the money.
Read more...FabScrap Tackles Fashion Waste
FabScrap works with fashion companies to reuse and recycle fashion scraps, thereby mitigating the notorious waste in the fashion industry.
Read more...R.I.P. Immanuel Wallerstein, Sociologist and “World Systems” Theorist
Immanuel Wallerstein on China, Brazil, racism, and the future.
Read more...Wolf Richter: World Trade Skids for First Time Since Financial Crisis
Exports by China, Japan, and Eurozone under pressure — in part because of globally weak demand for new vehicles, which transcends the trade war.
Read more...Trump’s China Trade War Gaslighting: Will There Evah Be a Deal?
Why the US and China are likely to remain at loggerheads.
Read more...Immigration, Fear, and Public Spending on Security: The Italian Example
How fear of immigration drives perceptions of safety risks.
Read more...Removing Mini-Shampoos from Hotel Rooms Won’t Save the Environment
Why most corporate pro-environment measures are mere gestures.
Read more...Trump Never Had a Grand Strategy for China: They Were Just Tariff Tantrums
Trump’s tariff strategy is obviously incoherent, but other approaches like anti-trust to improve the US trade’s position are sorely wanting.
Read more...A New Assessment of the Role of Offshoring in the Decline in US Manufacturing Employment
Offshoring killed American manufacturing jobs.
Read more...Brexit: According to Script
The commentariat’s Brexit predictions are playing out, sadly.
Read more...Inflation Data Shows Tariffs Are Not a Tax on Consumers but on Foreign & US Corporations
Yves here. It has been reported in venues like the Financial Times that importers who would face increased costs from tariffs on China were taking steps so as not to increase prices to customers, which includes making their suppliers give better prices and eating some costs too. With profit share at a record high level […]
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