Sidney Rothstein

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Political scientist. Author of 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 (http://tinyurl.com/RePwr). Tech, labor politics, curiosities of capitalism.

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Second labor action, first strike Solidarity with the workers of the MASS MoCA Union, on strike for better pay and conditions Contribute to the strike fund here givebutter.com/1Ik3ZG

The line-up for the APSA Comparative Labor Politics Workshop tomorrow (3/8) is ✨stellar✨ H/t @biffpm.bsky.social & @dannydaneri.bsky.social for organizing some of the finest and freshest research on labor politics Please join us for a session or for the day! (DM for Zoom link) #polisky

Shout out to @eu-eurostat-mirror.bsky.social for making my current research project less Eurocentric #polisky

If you thought that current German Zionism was totally strange, wait until you learn about Brazil’s! youtu.be/KIbsSHxPYrs?...

If more US Americans knew about the US role in Indonesia, I think we might be having more productive conversations about its current foreign policy. Below: Bevins (2020) The Jakarta Method, p. 157

The thing I find most inspiring about winter is just its sheer natural beauty

Are you considering submitting a paper to APSA 2024, but on the fence because you don’t have a full panel lined up? If your paper is re *labor politics* post a short description below and let the algorithm do the rest (or DM/email me; as co-chair of LP I’ll try to help) #polisky

Did you recently finish a path-breaking book in social science that will change the way we understand (and act in) the world? Or do you know someone who did? Send us your nominations for SASE's Alice Amsden Best Book Award! sase.org/events/award...

Alice Amsden Best Book Award - SASEsase.org The SASE Alice Amsden Best Book Award committee considers books submitted by a SASE member with a first edition publication date from one to two years prior to the next annual conference date, and whi...

Can any kind souls direct me to a good Brazilian podcast (em português), preferably on politics, culture, etc.? I know there’s only one The Dig, but something like it?

Many caveats to applying this history to the present, but if you want to see a broader realm of possibilities for our own time, I highly recommend this book

Hello Thursday here’s some earnest graffiti

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It's worth noting that the White House Comment line, which is only open Tuesday through Thursday, 11am-3pm, opens today after a nice, long break. The number is 202-456-1111.

I just called my congressman in NY to tell him to support the ceasefire and you can, too. Sounded like he’s been getting lots of calls. Good! No such thing as too many. www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...

URGENT: Tell Congress: Support Ceasefire (call now) - JVPwww.jewishvoiceforpeace.org Call your member of Congress and ask them to join these strong anti-war voices calling for a ceasefire.

I've been wrestling with what diasporic Judaism really means, with what anti-/non-Zionist Judaism really means. These can be truly complicated questions. But today, I tried something that was easy: I called my Cong rep to demand that he support ceasefire. Do the easy thing, find your rep here:

Find Your Representative | house.govwww.house.gov

The grass is always greener, I guess

Varieties of Deutschland AG (VoDAG)

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U.S. Tech Workers Are Experiencing A Drop In Salaries And In The Number Of Jobs Available In The Bay...www.forbes.com Tech salaries plunged to their lowest point in the past five years, decreasing 9% from $141,000 to $129,000 from 2022 to mid-2023. Additionally, salaries experienced their most significant year-over-y...

This one goes out to polisky

That’ll be the day

Kevin – Allein zu Haus

👀 Capital moves - but also, I think, here we see how tech moves. Look out for lots of “AI” coming your way. Also, who made Meg Whitman Ambassador to Kenya?!

Questions as Ruto says Google, Amazon, Intel to hire 300,000 Kenyans while tech giants lay off thous...www.citizen.digital In the middle of massive layoffs that have swept across the global tech ecosystem in recent months, President William Ruto says he has special arrangements to get 300,000 Kenyans hired by American tec...

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Honestly it is very strange to read PR stuff from Penn when this was how they treated Katalin Kariko:

I’ve never liked Connecticut, but I really am feeling for them this weekend

Really happy that Chris Zepeda-Millán is leading the charge to get the APSA Labor Politics syllabus bank together -- we have some great syllabi here already, and if you teach labor politics, please submit yours!

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