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#precarity

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"If “living paycheck to paycheck” means having less than a month’s worth of income saved in cash, then calculated in this way, the “60%” factoid gets it exactly right: the share of working-age, non-business-owning households living paycheck to paycheck was:

63% in 1998
63% in 2001
64% in 2004
64% in 2007
67% in 2010
64% in 2013
61% in 2016
59% in 2019
In other words, Bernie nailed it.

What led the above-cited pundits to the erroneous conclusion that it was Bernie who erred?

The most important factor, quantitatively speaking, is slightly technical and takes a bit of explanation. If you want to use household wealth data to determine what share of Americans “live paycheck to paycheck,” you have to exclude business owners from the analysis. This isn’t just because — to state what should be obvious — business owners can’t “live paycheck to paycheck,” no matter how poor they are, since they don’t receive a paycheck.

The more important point is that including business owners in the data distorts the analysis quantitatively. Business-owning households typically report extraordinarily large holdings of cash assets — far out of line with their incomes or net worth. And while there’s no way to prove this with certainty, it’s pretty clear the reason is that a significant proportion of the cash balances they report as household wealth is actually, in functional terms, working capital for their businesses."

jacobin.com/2025/03/bernie-san

jacobin.comBernie Is Right: 60% of Americans Live Paycheck to PaycheckBernie Sanders says it over and over again: 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Centrist critics swear this is false. Once we sort through the noise, we see Bernie is right on the money.
#USA#Bernie#Inequality
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

I'm not even sure if the #music industry itself is dangerous - especially as construction and agricultural workers also have high #suicide rates - its more the #precarity of the work and income and that a fun/dream job can just disappear at any moment..

theguardian.com/music/2025/mar

The Guardian · High suicide rates show music industry ‘profoundly dangerous’, researchers sayBy Denis Campbell
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"For almost two weeks, 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have been striking against concessions demanded by Canada Post. The CUPW is fighting for wage increases that match inflation, pension protection, and safe working conditions. The union warns that Canada Post’s push for part-time work and contracting out reflects a broader race-to-the-bottom in labor standards.

The dispute is about more than postal workers — privatization and precarious work threaten union gains across different sectors. Amazon’s anti-union model, with its reliance on gig workers and independent contractors, has set a dangerous precedent for other companies, including Canada Post. By driving down wages and undermining labor protections, Amazon is pushing an approach that threatens workers everywhere. The CUPW’s vision for a revitalized, publicly oriented postal service is in direct conflict with Amazon’s corporate model, which erodes workers’ power and public goods alike."

jacobin.com/2024/11/amazon-ant

jacobin.comAmazon’s Anti-Union Model and the Damage DoneCanadian postal workers are striking for fair wages and better working conditions. This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable and unions are crushed.
#Amazon#Canada#LaborMovement
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Estelle Platini

#Kenya is one of the world's largest producers of cut flowers. Most are exported to the Netherlands and then sold throughout Europe.
The state is accelerating concentration of agricultural and horticultural production for big firms. How will small producers and peasant farms respond?

"The mandatory rules, which the government has stated will be ‘anchored in law’, will mean only large farmers, companies, and importers will be permitted to supply fruit and vegetables in Kenya, with any trader buying fruit and vegetables from uncertified farmers facing stiff penalties.
"The penalties will apply to [any] buyer who purchases fruit and vegetables from any farmer who has not been certified as having implemented the 55-page, mandatory, KS1758 Kenyan standard."
farmbizafrica.com/govt-to-ban-

Thank you @cybeardjm for the heads-up and @danahilliot for the comment.

Farmbiz Africa · Govt to ban over 3m farmers from selling vegetables in Kenya - News and knowhow for farmersBy George Munune, FarmBizAfrica.com
#agriculture#subsistence#food
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Grant Denkinson

Participants needed - impact of #FreeLabour and #precarity in #MentalHealth provision
Researchers looking to interview #trainee counsellors on #BACP Accredited #postgraduate programmes about training, placement, and transition to employment.
#research project funded by BACP, ethical approval from the University of Strathclyde.
Contact Dr Jennifer O'Neil <j.oneil@napier.ac.uk> (Edinburgh Napier University) or Dr Mariya Ivancheva <M.Ivancheva@strath.ac.uk> (University of Strathclyde).

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Caro S.

AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism

"Real AI isn't sci-fi but the precaritisation of jobs, the continued privatisation of everything and the erasure of actual social relations. AI is Thatcherism in computational form. Like Thatcher herself, real world AI boosts bureaucratic cruelty towards the most vulnerable. Case after case, from Australia to the Netherlands, has proven that unleashing machine learning in welfare systems amplifies injustice and the punishment of the poor. AI doesn't provide insights as it's just a giant statistical guessing game. What it does do is amplify thoughtlessness, a lack of care, and a distancing from actual consequences. The logics of ranking and superiority are buried deep in the make up of artificial intelligence; married to populist politics, it becomes another vector for deciding who is disposable."

danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcheris

danmcquillan.orgAI as Algorithmic Thatcherism
#CapitalismKills#thatcherism#AI
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OccuWorld

The high-polluting rich aren’t happier - and they are costing everyone else a good life

earth4all.life/views/the-high-

Global #climate #change, and the resulting #ecosystem #collapses, #social #tensions, and #pandemics that follow, poses an existential threat to the kind of prosperous, modern society enjoyed by millions in rich countries. Life will meanwhile become even more difficult for the billions whose #lives are #defined by #extreme #precarity…

#Billionaires#ClassWar#DeminishingLives
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Cyclic Automata

ANU to close 4 on-campus childcare centres: canberratimes.com.au/story/866

Why does this matter?

ANU will build new centres. But - as with the completely fucked up Kambri development - the goal is to get rid of community driven services, and replace them with privatised neo liberal profit driven services.

Heritage Early Childcare centre started as a parent run centre, and has always retained a community focus.

Do not believe that the current centres will be able to gain licenses in the new premises - they won't afford the rent.

On top of this, with the casualisation of higher education, especially for early career, and women, the precarity of their positions means that academics won't even be able to afford the new services when they are delivered.

The land that these childcare centres are built on, Ngunnawal lands - always was, always will be -, is situated in high value areas. Although the buildings are heritage-listed, they will be demolished for some new development.

The erosion of trust, community, and collegiality.

The Canberra Times · Four ANU childcare centres set to close to make way for new centresThe centres' heritage buildings had mould, lead paint issues.
#anu#NgunnawalLands#childcare
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MidsouthMouth.OctaviaKeats

@black_intellect

It will be interesting to drill down to see the difference between pre pandemic 2010 and say, 2030 numbers on BIPOC and poor white people leaving.

netmigration.wisc.edu/

netmigration.wisc.eduNet Migration Patterns for US CountiesMigration rates vary by age, race, and ethnicity and with local and national social and economic conditions over time. Nonetheless, individual counties' patterns of age-specific migration tend to be consistent over time, telling demographic stories about local places. This website highlights these stories by providing reliable estimates of net migration broken down by age, race, Hispanic origin, and sex for all U.S. counties and states each decade from 1950 to 2020.
#AffordableHousing#IncomeInequality#unhoused
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

#GigEconomy #Precarity #PlatformEconomy: "More than two decades after the first ride-hail driver rolled through San Francisco’s streets, the idea of a platform worker is a permanent fixture in many communities and economies. And as more sectors become platformized, there is an increasing urgency to understand how these jobs have changed, what new work conditions have been created, and what regulatory reforms might be needed to ensure fair conditions.

Edited by Murali Shanmugavelan and Aiha Nguyen, The Formalization of Social Precarities explores platformization from the point of view of precarious gig workers in the Majority World. In countries like Bangladesh, Brazil, and India — which reinforce social hierarchies via gender, race, and caste — precarious workers are often the most marginalized members of society. Labor platforms made familiar promises to workers in these countries: work would be democratized, and people would have the opportunity to be their own boss. Yet even as platforms have upended the legal relationship between worker and employer, they have leaned into social structures to keep workers precarious — and in fact formalized those social precarities through surveillance and data collection."

datasociety.net/library/the-fo

Data & SocietyThe Formalization of Social PrecaritiesEdited by Murali Shanmugavelan and Aiha Nguyen, The Formalization of Social Precarities explores platformization from the point of view of precarious gig workers in the Majority World.
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CWTS | Leiden University

👏 Congratulations to @AndreaRE_altibel Reyes Elizondo and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner for their highly relevant paper on Research Integrity.

📰 Read the paper here 👉link.springer.com/article/10.1

SpringerLinkNavigating the Science System: Research Integrity and Academic Survival Strategies - Science and Engineering EthicsResearch Integrity (RI) is high on the agenda of both institutions and science policy. The European Union as well as national ministries of science have launched ambitious initiatives to combat misconduct and breaches of research integrity. Often, such initiatives entail attempts to regulate scientific behavior through guidelines that institutions and academic communities can use to more easily identify and deal with cases of misconduct. Rather than framing misconduct as a result of an information deficit, we instead conceptualize Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) as attempts by researchers to reconcile epistemic and social forms of uncertainty in knowledge production. Drawing on previous literature, we define epistemic uncertainty as the inherent intellectual unpredictability of scientific inquiry, while social uncertainty arises from the human-made conditions for scientific work. Our core argument—developed on the basis of 30 focus group interviews with researchers across different fields and European countries—is that breaches of research integrity can be understood as attempts to loosen overly tight coupling between the two forms of uncertainty. Our analytical approach is not meant to relativize or excuse misconduct, but rather to offer a more fine-grained perspective on what exactly it is that researchers want to accomplish by engaging in it. Based on the analysis, we conclude by proposing some concrete ways in which institutions and academic communities could try to reconcile epistemic and social uncertainties on a more collective level, thereby reducing incentives for researchers to engage in misconduct.
#ResearchIntegrity#QuestionableResearchPractices#precarity
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her)

The paper I wrote with Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner has been published in Science and Engineering Ethics: 'Navigating the Science System: Research Integrity and Academic Survival Strategies.'
The paper is our final output for the SOPs4RI project (H2020). It touches on systemic issues such as #precarity & #casualisation, and focuses on how researchers use QRPs to reconcile epistemic & social forms of uncertainty. #ResearchIntegrity

doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-004

SpringerLinkNavigating the Science System: Research Integrity and Academic Survival Strategies - Science and Engineering EthicsResearch Integrity (RI) is high on the agenda of both institutions and science policy. The European Union as well as national ministries of science have launched ambitious initiatives to combat misconduct and breaches of research integrity. Often, such initiatives entail attempts to regulate scientific behavior through guidelines that institutions and academic communities can use to more easily identify and deal with cases of misconduct. Rather than framing misconduct as a result of an information deficit, we instead conceptualize Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) as attempts by researchers to reconcile epistemic and social forms of uncertainty in knowledge production. Drawing on previous literature, we define epistemic uncertainty as the inherent intellectual unpredictability of scientific inquiry, while social uncertainty arises from the human-made conditions for scientific work. Our core argument—developed on the basis of 30 focus group interviews with researchers across different fields and European countries—is that breaches of research integrity can be understood as attempts to loosen overly tight coupling between the two forms of uncertainty. Our analytical approach is not meant to relativize or excuse misconduct, but rather to offer a more fine-grained perspective on what exactly it is that researchers want to accomplish by engaging in it. Based on the analysis, we conclude by proposing some concrete ways in which institutions and academic communities could try to reconcile epistemic and social uncertainties on a more collective level, thereby reducing incentives for researchers to engage in misconduct.
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