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Issue 35 // 20th April 2026
European labour market liberalisation and financialisation have weakened job quality and fuelled crises, while the rise of Big Tech and digitalisation now threatens workers’ rights further, highlighting the need for stronger, coordinated EU regulation and industrial policy. Read more of the article
Issue 35 // 20th April 2026
The Employment Rights Act strengthens workers’ ability to gain union recognition and counters employer anti-union tactics, largely shaped by the struggles of Amazon Coventry workers. Read more of the article
Issue 35 // 20th April 2026
Assetization transforms workers into income-generating assets, reshaping employment, shifting financial risks onto labour, and blurring the boundary between people and the value extracted from them. Read more of the article
Issue 35 // 20th April 2026
LinkedIn exemplifies how workers are increasingly encouraged to treat their online identities as assets, enabling organizations to extract value from employees’ personal brand, networks, and self-presentation beyond their formal labour. Read more of the article
Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
This editorial introduces a special issue examining borders as ideological and institutional instruments of power that shape labour, mobility, exploitation and inequality across diverse global contexts. Read more of the article
Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
The text argues that migration should be understood not as a linear journey to a destination but as a broader labour regime in which both mobility and enforced immobility generate value, vulnerability and inequality long before arrival or even employment. Read more of the article
Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
The article shows how international students in Northern Cyprus are embedded in “nested borders” that turn higher education into a survival pathway and a form of invisible, precarious labour for displaced people. Read more of the article
Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
The article argues that state-sanctioned and illegal extractive activities in the Amazon mutually reinforce one another by undermining indigenous borders, legitimising exploitation of land and labour while threatening Munduruku sovereignty and ecosystems. Read more of the article
Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
The Torres Strait is a historically fluid Indigenous borderland where mobility, work and identity have long been shaped by overlapping colonial, national and Indigenous governance systems, producing a diaspora in which movement remains a strategic expression of belonging rather than departure. Read more of the article
Issue 32 // 30th July 2025
Rachel Kelso and Hannah Reseigh-Lincoln show how Domiciliary care work relies on building trusted relationships while navigating blurred boundaries, poor pay, and unstable conditions that undermine the continuity essential to quality care. Read more of the article
