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  • Outras Palavras, 'No MTST, a soberania digital de que fala Morozov', by Rafael Grohmann, 1st September 2023.
  • Il Manifesto, 'Zona Warpa,  festa ribelle', by Matteo Lupetti and Giulia Martino, 19th August 2023.
  • Klasse Gene Klasse, 'Wohin geht die Arbeit? Anmerkungen zur globalen Arbeiter:innenklasse', by Paula Varela and Gastón Gutiérrez Rossi, 8th August 2023.
  • Jacobin Italia, 'Il gioco dello sfruttamento', by Bill Peel, 1st July 2023 (Italian translation).
  • Jacobin, 'Gamification Is Exploitation', by Bill Peel, 25th June 2023.
  • Ideas de Izquierda, '¿Hacia dónde va el trabajo? Apuntes sobre la clase trabajadora global', by Gastón Gutiérrez Rossi and Paula Varela, 18th June 2023.
  • Satsaid, 'Satsaid lanza la encuesta para trabajadores de videojuegos en Argentina', by Gremiales, 12th June 2023.
  • Carmilla, 'Videogame e conflitto sull’immaginario', by Gioacchino Toni, 24th May 2023.
  • Tech Smart, 'Why the video game industry got serious about unions', by Abraham, 19th May 2023.
  • Morning Star, 'All to play for', by Scott Alsworth, 17th April 2023.
  • Colombia Informa, 'Rappi compra empresa brasileña, pero no paga seguridad social a sus empleados', 12th April 2023.
  • Repórter Brasil, 'Trabalheira #16: Quanto ganha e como é o trampo de quem joga videogame por profissão?', 30th march 2023.
  • CGTN Radio, 'Balancing economic growth and worker protection in China's gig economy', 7th March 2023.
  • The Asian Labour Review, 'Overcoming the Limits: A Conversation with Jamie Woodcock on Platform Research and Organising', 13th March 2023.
  • The Star, 'How "crunch" time and low pay are fuelling a union drive among video game workers', interviewed by Brian Contreras, 2nd February 2023.
  • France.tv, 'Twitch: Merci pour le sub', interviewed for the documentary, 3rd November 2022.
  • Joystick.com.gr, 'Game Worker Solidarity on Joystick: “Most gamers don’t know what our working conditions are like and that’s by design”', interviewed by Στέλιος Αναγνωστόπουλος, 31st of October 2022.
  • Truthout, 'The Gaming Community Is Fed Up With Corporate Greed and Ripe to Be Mobilized', interviewed by Michael Corcoran, 21st of October 2022.
  • New Money, 'O stafie bântuie piața muncii: ascensiunea inteligenței artificiale, spaima că roboții vor elimina milioane de joburi', by Romulus Deac, 20th October 2022.
  • Jacobin, 'The Pentagon Loves First-Person Shooter Video Games', by Laura Bartkowiak and Brian J. Sullivan, 19th of October 2022.
  • tirto.id, 'Faedah dan Bahaya di Balik Live Streaming', by Arif Abdurahman, 16th of October 2022.
  • Wired, 'Success on Twitch No Longer Comes on Twitch', interviewed by Will Bedingfield, 3rd of October 2022.
  • Developpez.com, 'Lorsqu'un professionnel de l'info automatise son travail, qui devrait en bénéficier ? Lui ou son entreprise ?', by Stéphane le calme, 6th October 2022.
  • Efsyn, 'Υπάρχει μια αναζωογόνηση του συνδικαλισμού στη βιομηχανία των βιντεοπαιχνιδιών', by Τάσος Τσακίρογλου, 17th of September 2022.
  • The Observer, 'Revealed: UK fast fashion staff deprived of pay by jobs agency', interviewed by Shanti Das, 27th August 2022.
  • LAW360, 'Unions Look To Level Up With Video Game Worker Campaigns', interviewed by Tim Ryan, 25th August 2022.
  • Business World, 'Gig economy poised to take off', by Reynaldo C. Lugtu, Jr., 5th August 2022.
  • Diário do Centro do Mundo, '“Games podem desafiar o neoliberalismo”, diz ao DCM sociólogo que liga Marx a videogames', interview by Pedro Zambarda de Araujo, 27th June 2022.
  • Kulturpunkt.hr, 'Radnici y oblaku', 6th June 2022.
  • People Management, 'Are your employees really working from home?', interviewed by Dan Cave, 26th May 2022.
  • The Grocer, 'Deliveroo-GMB agreement: who is it helping the most?', interviewed by George Nott, 19th May 2022.
  • BBC Radio 3, Between the Ears: 'Noise', interviewed, 15th May 2022.
  • Drops de jogos, 'Folha entrevista sociólogo, que fala sobre o papel da esquerda no mercado de jogos', by Pedro Zambarda, 12th May 2022.
  • Titulares, 'La izquierda debe competir por espacio en los partidos, dice investigador – 08/05/2022 – Tec / Brasil', by Emerson Demorais, 9th May 2022.
  • Folha de S.Paulo, 'Jogos nada incocentes, by Ruy Castro, 8th May 2022.
  • Folha de S.Paulo, 'Esquerda deveria estar no campo de batalha dos games, diz pesquisador marxista', by Daniela Arcanjo, 8th May 2022.
  • Grocery Gazette, 'As Covid restrictions see life return to ‘normal’, what now for Deliveroo, Gorillas and Zapp?', by Julian Amani, 23rd February 2022.
  • Teyit, 'Esnaf kuryelerle asistan doktorları ayıran fenomen: “Gig ekonomi”', by Seçil Türkkan, 11th February 2022.
  • The Grocer, 'Is this the end of the road for rapid grocery’s employee riders?', interviewed by George Nott, 11th February 2022.
  • Belabored, 'Public Goods, Private Harms with Donald Cohen', research featured, 11th February 2022.
  • Het Financieele Dagblad, 'De Kluseconomie stuit op de grenzen van de groei', interviewed by Marijn Jongsma, 4th February 2022.
  • BBC Two, 'The Decade the Rich Won', advised on the documentary, 25th January 2022.
  • The Guardian, 'Beware the emergency avocado: what does ultrafast delivery really cost us?', interviewed by Sirin Kale, 9th December 2021.
  • Laizquierda Diario 'Trabajo de plataformas', by Tomas Quindt, 5th December 2021.
  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 'Bettdecken, Waschmaschinen, Anwälte: Über Whatsapp kann man in Asien und Afrika alles bekommen. Doch die Monopolstellung birgt Risiken', interviewed by Pauline Voss, 11th November 2021.
  • Daily Beast, 'Netflix Is Getting Into Gaming at the Worst Possible Time', interviewed by Tirhakah Love, 2nd Novemeber 2021.
  • Outras Palavras, 'Utopia e alienação no mundo dos videogames', by Sam Adler-Bell, 30th September 2021.
  • Gaceta, 'Videojuegos: todo trabajo y nada de juego', by Sam Adler-Bell, 22nd September 2021.
  • Agenda Digitale, 'Tiro a segno all’intelligenza artificiale: perché ora tutti la criticano',  by Alessio Plebe, 13th September 2021.
  • Washington Socialist, 'Interview with Jamie Woodcock and Sai Englert from Notes from Below', by Sam DiBella, September 2021.
  • The Evening Standard, 'Has the pandemic killed ambition?', by Alexandra Jones, 9th of September 2021.
  • Bir Gün, 'Sağlık ve onur esirgenemez', by Emily Scurrah, 6th September 2021.
  • UOL, 'Twitch: produtores articulam "sindicato" para contestar app da Amazon', by Carlos Juliano Barros, 10th August 2021.
  • Dissent, 'All Work and No Play', by Sam Adler-Bell, Marx at the Arcade featured, July 2021.
  • Os laboratórios do trabalho digital: entrevistas, interviewed by Rafael Grohmann, 13th June 2021.
  • The Financial Times, 'Death of the call centre? Workers ring in the changes during WFH era', interviewed by Oliver Barnes, 14th May 2021.
  • Rest of World, '“For them you’re not a human being”: Meet the migrants answering phones for Big Tech', interviewed by Moira Lavelle, 13th May 2021.
  • Arte, 'Vive le travail', interviewed for a film by Marianne Lère, April 2021.
  • De Standaard, 'Beursflop Deliveroo doet platformeconomie wankelen', by Pieter Van Maele and Korneel Delbeke, 1st April 2021.
  • Nieuwsblad, 'Eerste beursdag wordt nachtmerrie voor Deliveroo: hoe is het zover kunnen komen?', by Pieter Van Maele, 1st April 2021.
  • Bella Caledonia, 'Across Europe, the battle between gig workers and their algorithmic masters is raging', by  Ben Wray, 30th March 2021.
  • elástica, 'Marx na luta por games mais divertidos', by João Varella, 18th March 2021.
  • Outras Palavras, 'Games, nova fronteira no combate cultural', 2nd March 2021.
  • O Globo, 'Ideologia, eu quero uma para jogar: estudiosos refletem sobre relações entre games e política', 20th February 2021.
  • Tech Monitor, 'Why "platform cooperatives" have yet to challenge Big Tech', 17th February 2021.
  • El País, 'Google se repliega en la batalla por la industria de videojuegos', 12th Feburary 2021.
  • The Times Hub, 'Google retreats in the battle for the video game industry', 12th Feburary 2021.
  • Folha de Pernambuco, 'Games prosperam na pandemia, mas ainda não são levados a sério', 11th January 2021.
  • El Pais, Retine, 'Twitch desafía a Netflix y a las televisiones y asalta el entretenimiento convencional', by Jorge G. Garcia, 6th January 2021. Also available in French in Marseille News and English in Explica.
  • The Times, 'Is your employer spying on you as you work from home?', 3rd January 2021.
  • Drops to Jogos, 'Conheça o livro Marx no fliperama, sobre “games e luta de classes”', 20th December 2020.
  • Welcome to the Jungle, 'Taking on tyrants: UK tech workers unionise for better rights for all', interviewed by Anaïs Brémond, 9th December 2020.
  • HuffPost, 'Los videojuegos según Marx: Entrevista con Jamie Woodcock sobre el mundo de las consolas', interviewed by Andrés Lomeña, 7th December 2020.
  • El Pais, 'En portada: Los videojuegos se hacen mayores y desbordan las pantallas', by Jorge G. Garcia, 29th November 2020.
  • The Times, 'A hard grind for coffee giant’s "gig" call handlers: no sick pay and a fee to work', interviewed by Shanti Das, 1st November 2020.
  • OutrasMídias, 'A vida dos trabalhadores por um clique', by Tarso de Melo, 14th October 2020.
  • Your Rights at Work, WPFW 89.3 FM, interviewed by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith, 8th October 2020.
  • Nolan Live, BBC Northen Ireland, interviwed by Stephen Nolan, 7th October 2020.
  • Jacobin Brazil, 'Por que a luta socialista nos games chegou para ficar', by Rafael Grohmann, 6th October 2020.
  • Brave New Europe, 'Digital Platforms and the Pandemic', interviewed by Ben Wray, 31st July 2020.
  • Medium, 'Comunicação e trabalhadores das plataformas: entrevista com Jamie Woodcock', interviewed by Paula Alves, 2nd July 2020.
  • TechTheLead, 'Employee Surveillance Software Usage Spikes As Work From Home Is More Widespread', interviewed by Andrei Ene, 19th June 2020.
  • CNBC, 'Employee tracking is increasingly widespread, and it could be doing more harm than good', interviewed by Adam Isaak, 17th June 2020.
  • Counterview, 'Self-employed? "Dead-end" for India's 15 million gig workers amidst lockdown', by Sashi Kant Tripathi, May 2020.
  • Umbrella Studios, 'Will the COVID-19 pandemic fuel a freelance revolution?', interviewed by Roberta Hollis, 20th April 2020.
  • Wired, 'Gig economy workers have a new weapon in the fight against Uber' interviewed by Sanjana Varghese, 17th February 2020.
  • Le Nouvel Economiste.fr, 'Ces nouveaux syndicats qui s’en prennent à l’uberisation, l’économie à la tâche et l’externalisation', 17th Februrary 2020 - in French.
  • Financial Times  'The upstart unions taking on the gig economy and outsourcing', interviewed by Bethan Staton, 19th January 2020.
  • OneZero 'Uber Delivery Workers in Mexico Are Tracking Thieves Through Google Maps and WhatsApp Networks', interviewed by Martha Pskowski, 11th December 2019.
  • Motherboard, Vice Italy 'Cosa succede quando l'esercito vuole il tuo videogioco', featured in an article by Matteo Lupetti, 26th November 2019.
  • BBC 'Bye box: How streaming could kill the games console', interviewed by Chris Baraniuk, 8th November 2019.
  • The Guardian 'Strike 2.0: how gig economy workers are using tech to fight back', interviewed by Jack Shenker, 31st August 2019.
  • DigiLabour 'Trabalhadores de Games Uni-vos', by Rafael Grohmann, 23rd August 2019.
  • Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, V4: E1 'The Dark Side of the Video Games Industry', interviewed by researchers and provided copy of Marx at the Arcade.
  • The Guardian, 'London academics criticise 'oppressive' treatment of student protesters', by Mattha Busby, 24th June 2019.
  • The Verge, 'Robot butlers operated by remote workers are coming to do your chores', by James Vincent, 9th May 2019.
  • New Statesman, 'Tech workers are organising – and asking what technology is actually for', by Sanjana Varghese, 3rd May 2019.
  • Quartz India, Interviewed for 'The ugly truth behind being a gig-economy worker in India', by Aria Thaker, 26th March 2019.
  • Interviewed about Fairwork on Classic FM (South Africa), 28th March 2019.
  • Vita Da Call Center, interviewed for Pop Economy, Canale 224.
  • WES 2018: Dr Jamie Woodcock, interviewed for the Work Employment and Society conference.
  • The Australian Financial Review interviewed for 'Does social networking at work boost your company's profits?', by Laurence Dodds, 23rd October 2018.
  • The Telegraph interviewed for 'Social networks at work: democratic or dangerous?', by Laurence Dodds, 23rd October 2018.
  • BBC News 24, interviewed about Uber Eats strike, 4th October 2018.
  • Forbes, interviewed for 'UberEats Workers May Have Accidentally Found The Company's Achilles Heel', by Emiliano Mellino, 4th October 2018.
  • The Atlantic, interviewed for 'The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job', by Brian Merchant, 3rd October 2018.
  • Mosaik, interviewed for '“Kein Geld, kein Essen” – Streiks bei Uber Eats', by Benjamin Herr, 25th Sept 2018.
  • BBC Radio Oxford, interviewed about surveillance at work, 17th August 2018.
  • Eurogamer 'The games industry needs unions - and these are the people trying to make it happen in the UK', interview, 8th July 2018.
  • Al Jazeera, TV interview about addiction and videogames, Counting the Cost, 21st June, 2018.
  • Red Pepper Interviewed about work, 18th June 2018.
  • The Guardian Interview about surveillance at work, 14th May 2018.
  • The Guardian Interviewed as part of an article on IWGB and UVW, 18th April 2018.
  • Torcedores Interviewed for a publication in Brazil about Esports, March 2018.
  • Globo News, Brazil, 'Sem Fronteiras: Automação e educação: o futuro do trabalho', TV interview about the future of work, 9th February 2018.
  • Reteconomy TV, Sky Italy, TV interview about precarious work, January 2018.
  • Al Jazeera, TV interview about Uber and IWGB case, 9th November 2017.
  • Al Jazeera, TV interview about Uber ruling, 27th September 2017.
  • Canal Trece, Colombia, TV interview about videogames, September 2017.
  • BBC Radio 2 Interviewed by Jeremy Vine, 31st August 2017.
  • ARTE TV - Grande-Bretagne: l'envers du "miracle de l'emploi", French TV interview about work, 31st May 2017.
  • BBC Radio 2 Interviewed by Jeremy Vine, 5th May 2017.
  • BBC Radio 4 PM Interviewed about call centres, 2nd May 2017.

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  • September 2023,  Troublemaking Book launch with Lydia Hughes, Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh.
  • September 2023, Conversations on Europe, European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, online.
  • September 2023, Troublemaking Book launch with Lydia Hughes, Barnet NEU, London.
  • August 2023, 'Roundtable discussion', The Asian Capitalist Conjucture: Contradictions and Critique, Indonesia.
  • August 2023, 'Roundtable on Labor', Labour and Independent Progressive Media in Asia and Beyond, Asian Labour Review, Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • August 2023, 'Marx at the Arcade', SABER (Semana Aberta de Informática), Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil, online.
  • July 2023, Troublemakers’ Conference, Manchester.
  • July 2023, 'Platform Work, class composition, and the global South: what are the risks and opportunities for workers?', New Technologies & The Futures of Work in the Global South, India International Centre, New Delhi.
  • June 2023, 'Roundtable 5: Technology, work and activism', Establishing links between labour research and workers activism, 2nd Labour Transfer Summer School, Buggerru, Italy.
  • June 2023, 'Roundtable 6: Building knowledge with workers', Establishing links between labour research and workers activism, 2nd Labour Transfer Summer School, Buggerru, Italy.
  • June 2023, 'Struggles over the employment relationship in digitalised workplace: the emerging global picture in platform work', Keynote, Summer School: Digital Transformation Technical progress and its impact on workers, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, online.
  • May 2023, Launch of Troublemaking: Why You Should Organize Your Workplace with Lydia Hughes in conversation with Gifford Hartman, Green Arcade, San Francisco.
  • May 2023, Launch of Troublemaking: Why You Should Organize Your Workplace with Lydia Hughes, DSA Labor, San Francisco.
  • May 2023, 'Closing plenary: What’s at stake?', Higher Education’s Labor Upsurge, UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor and Community.
  • May 2023, 'Quantitative Analysis of the Video Games Industry', Researching the video game, Multiplay, University of Durham.
  • April 2023, ‘App Delivery Workers, A Global Phenomenon’, Hospitality in a time of plague: the Brooklyn Waterfront’s Hospitality Industry During the Pandemic, Brooklyn Waterfront Research Centre and online.
  • April 2023, ‘Understanding work through co-research and worker writing: learning from critical and workerist-inspired approaches to research’ Centre for Research on the Organization of Work and Consumption (CROWC), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
  • April 2023, ‘The role of technology at work: labour process theory and class composition’, keynote, Historical Materialism Athens.
  • April 2023, ‘Class Composition Project’, Historical Materialism Athens.
  • April 2023, Launch of Troublemaking: Why You Should Organize Your Workplace with Lydia Hughes, ICA London.
  • April 2023, ‘A critical comparison of labour process theory and class composition’, ILPC, Glasgow.
  • March 2023, ‘Understanding the Videogames Industry’, guest lecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.
  • March 2023, ‘Marxism and Videogames: class composition and worker organising in the games industry’ Powerplay, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil.
  • February 2023, 'How to win the 4-day work week at your workplace', 4 Day Week Campaign and Organiser Now!, online.
  • February 2023, 'Keynote', Working in the Platform Economy: Public action and collective struggles in Canada and South Korea. Montreal and online.
  • January 2023, Discussant for Clark McAllister's Karl Marx's Workers' Inquiry book launch, department of geography, University of Bologna.
  • January 2023, 'Comparing Labour Process Theory and Class Composition', University of Padua.
  • December 2022, 'Workers Inquiry + The Hologram: An introduction with Jamie Woodcock + Cassie Thornton', Berlin.
  • December 2022, 'China’s Digital Economy & Labor', China, online.
  • November 2022, 'Class Composition Project', Workers' Inquiry Stream, Historical Materialism Conference, London.
  • October 2022, 'Game On! Unionising Videogame Workers in Australia, North America, Ireland and the UK', CRIMT, Montreal.
  • October 2022, 'Proposal for an ILO Policy Observatory on Work in the Digital Economy', ILO, Geneva and online.
  • October 2022, 'Workers' Inquiry and Class Composition', University of Newcastle, online.
  • September 2022, 'Marx at the Arcade', book launch, Athens.
  • September 2022, 'Organise Now!', Launch event, The World Transformed, Liverpool.
  • July 2022, 'Checking the Orders: Seminar on International Research into Food Delivery Platform Work', organiser, Open University and online.
  • July 2022, 'Genres Against Markets', participant, Berlin.
  • June 2022, 'Creative Labour as Platform Work: Infrastructures and Interactions', Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia.
  • May 2022, 'Workers' Inquiry', UTAW (United Tech and Allied Workers), online.
  • April 2022, 'Understanding platform worker organising: the case study of Deliveroo in the UK', ILPC, Padua, Italy.
  • April 2022, co-organiser of stream: the digitalisation of work, the gig economy, and migrant Labour, ILPC, Padua, Italy.
  • April 2022, 'Platform worker organising', CUNY Professional Staff Congress - International Committee Meeting, New York.
  • March 2022, 'Screening of Ken Loach's film Sorry We Missed You, followed by a panel discussion on casualisation of labour in the UK', SOAS.
  • February 2022, 'Understanding the gig economy', Momentum West London Political Education Economics (online).
  • January 2022, 'The Fight Against Platform Capitalism', École d'innovation sociale Élisabeth-Bruyère Social Innovation School (online).
  • December 2021, 'Presentation on Data and Democracy at Work', discussant, The Centre for Law at Work, University of Bristol and online.
  • December 2021, 'Can there be leadership with machines?', keynote, the International Studying Leadership Conference 2021, The Open University and online.
  • December 2021, 'Game Worker Solidarity: Organizing from the Screen to the Table', Haymarket Books, online.
  • November 2021, 'Work & Labor', Guest Lecture, York University, online.
  • November 2021, 'Employee Voice', Guest Lecture, LSE.
  • November 2021, 'Feltrinelli Camp Next generation Labour', Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, participant, Milan.
  • November 2021, 'Notes from Below: Initial findings from the Class Composition Project', Historical Materialism, online.
  • October 2021, 'Understanding the gig economy and platform work', 2021 Oregon IPS Annual Conference, online.
  • October 2021, 'AI and Exploitation', Left Forum Society, Royal Holloway.
  • October 2021, 'The struggle over artificial intelligence at work', Artificial intelligence and the Future of Work: Humans in Control, ILO, online.
  • October 2021, 'The gig economy and its transformations of global labour relations' (keynote), New frontiers of digital inequality, University of Bern, Switzerland and online.
  • September 2021, 'A Marxist account of “Destiny 2”: Using videogame production as a case study to explore changes in contemporary capitalism', ESA Conference, online.
  • August 2021, 'Workers inquiry and platform work: understanding the dynamics of struggles in the gig economy', Radical Inquiry on Platform Labour, Historical Materialism East Asia, Hong Kong and online.
  • July 2021, 'Round table: Platform work: What does it mean and what must be done?', Platform work - Finding new strategies to organise in Europe
    Final International Conference of the Project Crowdwork in Lisbon and online.
  • July 2021, 'Guerrilla Democracy: Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century' Book launch, The Open University and online.
  • June 2021, 'Augmented Exploitation: Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work', the Marxist Education Project, New York and online.
  • June 2021, 'The IWGB and strategic litigation: using the law within the strategies and tactics of work organising', Labour, strategy, and the constitutional protection of work: on the potential effectiveness of legal mobilisation, University of Bristol Law School.
  • June 2021, 'New Work, the Quality of Working Lives and Workers’
    Well-being', Ethical Futures: Realities, responsibilities and resourcefulness, 2nd UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, online.
  • June 2021, '6D Feeding the Giant: Implications of Gig Labour for Urban Mobility', Urbanism Next, online.
  • June 2021, 'Breakout: inclusion', The Future of Work and Artificial Intelligence, online.
  • April 2021, 'Conclusion', Labour Unions and the Future of Work in the Game Industry, online.
  • April 2021, 'Gig Workshop', Manchester Metropolitan University, online.
  • April 2021, 'Gig economy organising', Media activism guest lecture, University of Amsterdam, online.
  • April 2021, 'The Gig Economy', Kent People Before Profit, online.
  • March 2021, 'Digital Workerism: tracing global workers' struggles against platforms', International Development and Innovation Seminar Series, Open University, online.
  • March 2021, 'Trialectic – Can Technology be Moral?', Wonk Bridge, online.
  • February 2021, 'Brazilian Delivery Platform Workers: class composition and migration of riders in the UK and Brazil', with Rafael Grohmann and Mateus Mendonça, Platform Work and Work at Amazon stream, RC44, IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, online.
  • February 2021, Facing The Crisis: Unions in the Age of Covid, RCA UCU, online.
  • February 2021, 'Global Struggles of the Gig Economy', Leicester Secular Society, online.
  • February 2021, 'Video Games: A Marxist Perspective', UPLINK, Long Island Retro Gaming, online.
  • February 2021, 'Working for the platform economy', EMN Reading seminar on Fluid Organisations, EM Normandie, online.
  • February 2021, 'Play/Work: playbour and immaterial labour', Kings, London.
  • February 2021, 'Uber and the Covid crisis', GERPISA, Paris and online.
  • February 2021, 'Global Struggles of the Gig Economy' (Keynote), The Joys and Perils of Platform Work in Estonia, Estonia and online.
  • February 2021, 'Marxism and videogames', Experimental Publishing master (XPUB) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Netherlands and online.
  • February 2021, 'Oral evidence', House of Lords COVID-19 Committee, online.
  • January 2021, 'The Class Composition Project', Notes from Below, online.
  • January 2021, 'Politics, populism, and playstations', The Popular Show, online.
  • November 2020, 'Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge', Not-Equal Award Showcase, Online.
  • November 2020, 'Worker writing and class composition', Historical Materialism, online.
  • October 2020, 'Note dalla pandemia: il lavoro tra salute e reddito', Django Social Center in Treviso and online. Report and video available here.
  • October 2020, 'Digital Labour and Digital Workerism', Global China Social Research Hub Public Seminar Series, The University of Hong Kong, online.
  • October 2020, 'The Work of Videogames: Reflections on Game Worker Organizing', Haymarket teach-in with Austin Kelmore and Emma Kinema, online. Video available here.
  • September 2020, 'Socially distanced organising: new tools to fight back at work', The World Transformed, online.
  • August 2020, 'Gig-Economy and the Law: Law School Policy Review', National Law School of India University, Bengaluru and online.
  • July 2020, 'Network culture and creation as work',  Guim Camps' Virtual Union of Mods project, English with Catalan and Spanish subtitles.
  • June 2020, 'The Future of Workers - implementing learning and development solutions', CIPD Festival of Work, London and online.
  • May 2020, 'Workers' Inquiry More Than Ever', Red May Seattle and online.
  • May 2020, 'Digital Workerism', DigiLabour Conversations no 6, Brazil and online. Video available here.
  • May 2020, 'Plexal live panel: the future of work', London and online.
  • March 2020, 'PhD Workshop', University of Toronto.
  • February 2020, 'Ludocapitalism', Manchester.
  • February 2020, 'Play/Work: playbour and immaterial labour', Kings, London.
  • February 2020, 'Voices of resistance in the gig economy', Cafe Diplo, London.
  • December 2019, 'The rise of the gig economy and its impacts on the future of work', The gig economy and its implications for social dialogue and workers' protection: outcomes from a cross-national research project, Universite de Geneve.
  • November 2019, 'The future of work in a digital economy: Managing change while putting people first’, Homes UK, ExCel London.
  • November 2019, 'Game Workers Unite', Canterbury Christ Church University.
  • November 2019, 'Money and debt', Sociology, University of Warwick.
  • November 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', Radical Book Fair, Edinburgh.
  • November 2019, 'Workers' Inquiries in the UK', Historical Materialism, London.
  • November 2019, 'Workers' Inquiry in practice', Historical Materialism, London.
  • November 2019, 'Organising platform workers', Organising 2019, Innovations and Reflections, Ella Baker School of organising, London.
  • October 2019, 'The Gig Economy, Future of Work, and Voice', LSE.
  • October 2019, 'Informal work', Sociology, University of Warwick.
  • October 2019, 'Platform Labour and Class Composition', Artificial Intelligence, Platforms, and Workers', University of Leicester.
  • October 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', Everybody's Reading Festival, Leicester.
  • October 2019, 'Work on feeling', Sociology, University of Warwick.
  • October 2019, 'The Rise of the Alt-Right: Fighting the fash online', LARAF, London.
  • September 2019 'Anti-work from above and below: workerism, workers’ struggle, and the fight against work', Challenging the Work Society conference, Birkbeck, London.
  • September 2019 'Why we strike', chair, The World Transformed, Brighton.
  • September 2019 'Labour, technology, and the future of workers', The World Transformed, Brighton.
  • September 2019, 'Setting the Scene - Defining the Future of Work', Keynote, Future of Work Festival: A Conference for HR & Organisational Development Professionals in the Housing Sector, Win-win: making the future of work productive and rewarding for employees and employers, County Hall, London
  • September 2019, 'Automated decisions and profiles', Congreso Internacional: Sobre Automaizacion, Vigilancia y Control de los Trabajadores y Derechos Fundamentales, Valencia, Spain.
  • September 2019, 'Delivering resistance in the gig economy: worker self-organisation at Uber and Deliveroo', Freelancers and diversity work in the UK screen industries, Institute for Screen Industry Research, University of Nottingham.
  • August 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', Book Launch, Fab Cafe, Manchester.
  • August 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade: Videogames, Work, and Organising', European Sociological Association conference, Manchester.
  • August 2019, 'Digital Workerism: Tracing the Recomposition of Workers’ Struggle in Digital Labour / Capitalism', plenary, European Sociological Association conference, Manchester
  • August 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', The World Transformed, Bristol.
  • August 2019, 'Challenges and strategies for organising precarious workers', Open Society Foundation, London.
  • August 2019, 'Tackling Right-wing dominance in eSports',  Who are ya? Exploring art, identity and football, with Marijam Didžgalvytė, Tate Modern.
  • July 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', book launch, Housmans bookshop, London.
  • July 2019, 'Workers of the World, Connect! Tech Innovations and Organizational Change for the Future of Work(ers)', Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, the future of work, Redmond, WA.
  • July 2019, 'Game Workers: Individualisation and collectivism in the UK games industry', Develop, Brighton.
  • June 2019, 'Gameplay auto/biographical and life writing', Indisciplinary Approaches to Digital Play symposium, Kings.
  • June 2019, 'Amazon.com, Twitch.tv, and Videogames', Delivered the Same Day: The Post Office and Amazon.com, University of Coventry.
  • May 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', book launch, Waterstones Trafalgar Square, London.
  • May 2019, 'Algorithm, Platform Design and Agency in Digital Work', Platform Work in Global Contexts, Royal Holloway, London.
  • May 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', book launch, Bread and Roses at the Chapel, London.
  • May 2019, 'Toxic positivity: from the call centre to the university', University of Nottingham.
  • May 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', Historical Materialism, Athens.
  • April 2019, 'Fairwork and artificial intelligence: making, faking, and breaking', ILPC, Vienna.
  • April 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', book launch, Historical Materialism, New York.
  • April 2019, 'The Crisis and the Shopfloor: Class Composition in Britain', Historical Materialism, New York.
  • April 2019, 'Technology and the future of work and workers', launch of Media Inequality and Change Centre, Philadelphia. Video available here
  • April 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', book launch, Red Emmas, Baltimore.
  • April 2019, 'Marx at the Arcade', book launch, Bluestockings, New York.
  • April 2019, 'Platform Work and the Fairwork Project Rankings', Data & Society, New York.
  • March 2019, 'Fairwork', GEONET Conference, University of Johannesburg.
  • March 2019, 'Guest Lecture', MSc Labour, Social Movements & Development, SOAS, London.
  • March 2019, 'Future of Work', Guest Lecture, LSE, London.
  • March 2019, 'Tech workers power', Unite, London.
  • February 2019, 'Fairwork', ILO, Geneva.
  • February 2019, 'Digital Labour', Guest Lecture, Royal Holloway, London.
  • February 2019, Game Workers Unite Organiser Training, London.
  • February 2019, Speaker, 'Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data', book launch, Waterstones, London.
  • January 2019, Speaker, Digital Leaders Salon, University of Liverpool, London campus.
  • January 2019, 'The Fairwork Foundation', NotEqual launch, Digital Catapult, London.
  • January 2019, 'The Fairwork Foundation', University of Cape Town.
  • January 2019, 'The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for Fairer Platform Work', Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India
  • January 2019, 'The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for Fairer Platform Work', with Mark Graham, Richard Heeks, and Jean-Paul VanBelle, ICTDX, Ahmedabad, India.
  • December 2018, 'Platforms, Digital Labour, and the Future of Work', CITAPP Winter School, IIITB, Bangalore.
  • November 2018, 'The Notes from Below Project and Technical, Social, and Political Composition', Historical Materialism conference, London.
  • November 2018, organised the "workers' inquiry" stream with Notes from Below at Historical Materialism conference, London.
  • November 2018, 'Voice in the gig economy', Guest lecture, LSE, London.
  • October 2018, 'International Labor Organizing', DSA/TWC, San Francisco.
  • October 2018, 'Organising Resistance in the Gig Economy', AIDC Solidarity Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • October 2018, 'platform work and artifical intelligence', Kritik Digitaler Arbeit, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin.
  • September 2018, 'Autour des luttes londoniennes dans la gig-économie' and 'Roundtable: The Contemporary Working Poor, A Global Overview', Le Travail Qui Rend Pauvre, 3eme Edition du Colloque Internaional Du Gireps, Universite de Montreal.
  • September 2018, 'Gig Economy: Workers, platforms and the digital workplace', Algorithmic Management: Designing systems which promote human autonomy, WU Vienna.
  • September 2018, 'gig economy and platform work', Work Employment and Society, Belfast.
  • September 2018, 'The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for platform work', Toward a Platform Urbanism Agenda for Urban Studies, University of Sheffield.
  • August 2018, 'Evolving Technology: New forms of work', Europaeum Summer School, Helsinki, Finland.
  • July 2018, 'The Fairwork Foundation: assessing and responding to the online gig economy', ILERA, South Korea.
  • July 2018, 'What Do Unions Do, Today?: Unions’ Community and Societal Contributions and Questions of Their Future Sustainability', co-organiser and discussant, ILERA, South Korea.
  • July 2018, 'Fairwork Foundation Stakeholder Meeting', Bangalore, India.
  • July 2018, 'Fairwork Foundation Stakeholder Meeting', Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • June 2018, 'Digitalisation and the new economy: disrupting production networks while tackling climate change? TUC/ETUI conference: The World(s) of Work in Transition, Brussels.
  • June 2018, 'Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for online platform work', Fairtrade International Symposium, Portsmouth.
  • June 2018, 'Could technology make politicians obsolete?', Labour Together, Parliament, London.
  • June 2018, 'Platform capitalism and online gig work: the labour process, resistance, and organising', Work and employment in an era of platform capitalism, Dauphine Universite Paris.
  • May 2018, 'Workshop', Playbour, Furtherfields commons, London.
  • May 2018, Roundtable: Data Justice in the Workplace (co-organised by DATAJUSTICE and Data & Society), Data Justice Lab, Cardiff.
  • May 2018, 'Future of work', sharelab, Nesta, London.
  • May 2018, 'Automate this! Delivering resistance in the gig economy', Oxford.
  • May 2018, 'Marx, the workers’ inquiry, and class composition today', Marx200, Berlin.
  • May 2018, 'The Fairwork Foundation: strategies for online platform work', re:publica, Berlin.
  • May 2018, 'Studying Deliveroo though online sources', Alan Turing Institute Workshops on Opportunities to Use Untapped Data to Support Social, Economic and Financial Inclusion, London.
  • April 2018, 'The Future of Work', Ethical Careers Fair and Conference, SOAS, London.
  • April 2018, 'Gig Economy: La Revolution de la Servitude', Solidarites Jeunes, Geneva.
  • April 2018, 'Developing Principles for Fair Online Platform Work', UNCTAD E-Commerce Week, Geneva.
  • April 2018, 'A.I, Technology and the Future of Work', Funzing, London.
  • March 2018, 'Platform capitalism and online gig work: the labour process, resistance, and organising', International Labour Process Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • March 2018, 'The work of gaming, esports and Streaming', eSports: tendências e oportunidades, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • March 2018, 'The work of gaming, esports and Streaming', The 360, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • March 2018, 'Understanding the Gig Economy', Undergraduate lecture, the University of Toronto, Canada.
  • March 2018, 'The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for Online Platform Work', Log Out! Resistance Within and Against Platform Labour, the University of Toronto, Canada.
  • February, 2018, 'Twitch', Cybersalon, London.
  • February 2018, 'Work', The Giants of 2020, Beveridge 2.0 Festival, LSE (winner of the debate by popular vote), video available here.
  • February 2018, 'The Future of Work', Beveridge 2.0 Festival, LSE, recording available here.
  • February 2018, 'Gaming // Marketing', Marketing Applications, University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh.
  • February 2018, Jennifer Walshe Sound Salon: Play, Labour and the Internet, Somerset House, London.
  • January 2018, 'Digital Labour in the University: Understanding the Transformations of Academic Work in the UK', WIAS Workshop: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism, London.
  • January 2018, 'Fairwork Foundation', Sharers and Workers, ETUI, Brussels.
  • January 2018, 'Studying the workplace: the workers’ inquiry today', Edge Hill University.
  • January 2018, "The Fairwork Foundation: Towards Fairer Work in the Digital Gig Economy", University of Oxford.
  • December 2017, ‘Why Workers' Inquiry’, Mayday Rooms, London.
  • November 2017, 'Working the Phones', Birmingham.
  • November 2017, 'A Fairwork Foundation: towards a Fairer Work in the Digital Gig Economy', with Mark Graham, Work in the Digital Economy: Regulation and Conflicts, ENDL, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
  • November 2017, 'Labour, Resistance, and Organisation in the Online Gig Economy', Historical Materialism Conference, London.
  • November 2017, 'Power and Accountability in the Digital Economy', The Glass Room, London.
  • November 2017, 'Fairwork', ETUC Autumn School, LSE.
  • November 2017, 'Platforms' Digital Frontiers, Kingston University.
  • September 2017, 'Contemporary Workers' Inquiry and Documenting Struggle', Mayday Rooms, London.
  • September 2017, 'Working the Phones', Tender Networks, Bristol.
  • September 2017, 'Deliveroo and the City: work, digital technology, and the urban environment', Urban Studies Seminar, University of Southampton.
  • September 2017, '“Live Streamers” and the Public Mediation of Cultural Value', with Dr Mark R Johnson, Cultural Mediators in the Digital Age, Kings College London.
  • August 2017, 'Labour, Professionalisation and Esports', The Future of Esports: Challenging Work and Gender Issues in Pro Gaming, Manchester.
  • July 2017, 'Precarious Labour', Manchester International Festival.
  • July 2017, 'Working the Phones', Internationalist Summer Meeting, Greece.
  • July 2017, 'Towards a Fairer World of Work', ILO, Geneva.
  • July 2017, 'Managing Play: The Management of Competitive and Professional Gaming', Critical Management Conference (CMS), Liverpool.
  • June 2017, ‘Live Streaming, Twitch.tv, and the Games Industry’, Multiplatform, Manchester.
  • June 2017, 'Working the Phones: investigating control and resistance in the modern workplace', Public lecture LSE, London.
  • June 2017, '"Oh my god, this is beautiful" - game-changing discourse and action in esports tournaments', with Dr Mark R Johnson, CAMEo, University of Leicester.
  • June 2017, 'Understanding the 21st century workplace', Arcadia University, the College of Global Studies, London.
  • June, 2017, 'Playing for profit: the lives and careers of professional video gamestreamers', with Dr Mark R Johnson, Canadian Games Studies Association (CGSA), Toronto.
  • May 2017, 'Live-streamed performance and talk on Twitch', Capitalism, Marketing, and Critique, London.
  • May 2017, 'Working the Phones', DIY Cultures, London.
  • May 2017, 'Q&A on the Future of Work', Pulverised at the Arcola Theatre, London.
  • May 2017, 'The new digital everyday of work: platforms and the algorithmic panopticon', Digital Everyday Conference, Kings College London.
  • May 2017, '"It’s like the Gold Rush": The Lives and Careers of Professional Video Game Broadcasters', with Dr Mark R Johnson, DiGRA UK, Salford.
  • April 2017, 'Inquiry today', Historical Materialism, New York.
  • April 2017, Customer Service Agent, Cafe Oto, London.
  • April 2017, 'A Changing World: Power Shifts in 2017 and Beyond', eSCon europe, the eSports conference, London.
  • March 2017, 'Working the Phones', Book Launch, Connecting Research on Employment and Work, University of Warwick.
  • March 2017, 'The Future of Video' Insight 17, London (invited talk).
  • March 2017, 'a gathering of masters @IEM', Digital Jam Sessions (online talk available here).
  • March 2017, 'Digital Labour', Oxford Radical Forum (invited talk).
  • March 2017, 'Working the Phones', Ruskin College, Oxford (invited talk).
  • February 2017, 'Understanding the Gig Economy: The problem of management at Deliveroo', Institute for Management Studies, Goldsmiths, London (invited talk).
  • February 2017, launch of Euro Network on Digital Labor (ENDL), Paris (participant).
  • February 2017, 'Working The Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centers', book launch, Interference Archive and the MEP, New York City.
  • February 2017, Session on Board Diversity & Workers on Boards, Corporate Governance Reform Workshop, LSE, London (invited participant).
  • January 2017, UK Digital Economy Crucible 2017 Information Event, UCL, London (invited talk).
  • January 2017, 'Work: The Digital Economy and the Labouring Body' at the Forum, LSE, London (invited talk) available here.
  • January 2017, 'Deliver-who? An inquiry into the conditions of Deliveroo workers in London', Information Systems Seminar Series, LSE, London.
  • November 2016, 'Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres – Book launch', Waterstones, Trafalgar Square, London.
  • November 2016, 'Deliver-who? An inquiry into the struggle of precarious workers at Deliveroo', ERHR Research Workshop, LSE, London.
  • November 2016, 'Esports and Competitive Gaming in the UK: A Summary and Future Possibilities', Varsity Games launch: London University LIVE Esports, Gfinity Arena, London (invited talk)
  • November 2016, 'The work of play: towards a Marxist analysis of video game production', ENCODE, University of Tromsø, Norway (invited lecture).
  • November 2016, ‘Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres (Wildcat Series) – Book launch’, Historical   Materialism, London.
  • November 2016, 'Professional Gaming Through the Ages: Poker, eSports, and the Work of Skilled Play', with Mark R Johnson, eSports and the Future of Sport, University of Salford
  • October 2016, 'Procedural generation and the labour process: how we shape tools and they shape us', ProcJam, Falmouth University, UK (invited talk).
  • October 2016, 'Understanding Digital Labour: Between Autonomy and Automation', Marx2016 conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • September 2016, ‘Professional Gaming and eSports in the UK: Digital Labour and the Blurring of Work and Play’, Work, Employment & Society Conference, University of Leeds.
  • August 2016, ‘The Relationships of Co-Creation: Software Modification on Steam’, DiGRA/FDG, Dundee.
  • July 2016, ‘Crowdsourcing in Practice: the users view of micro tasking’, International Conference on Social Media & Society, London.
  • June 2016, ‘Digital tools for workers' organisation: challenges and possibilities’, “I Will if You Will, Too”: Conditional Commitment in Collective Action, City University, London (invited talk).
  • April 2016, ‘Disentangling value in a co-creating Organisation: exploring the tensions between paid professionals and users, Scientist and citizen scientists’, Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies, Viña del Mar, Chile.
  • April 2016, ‘The online crowdsourcing of scientific research: the experience and motivation of users’, International Labour Process Conference, Berlin.
  • November 2015, ‘Crowdsourcing: understanding the implications, from citizen science to microwork’, Historical Materialism, London.
  • July 2015, ‘The practice of anti-work politics: what are the implications for organisation and strategy?’, Never Work Conference, Cardiff University.
  • April 2015, Discussant for Sergio Bologna, ‘The origins, traits, and evolution of the freelance movement’, Marxism(s) in Social Movements, European University Institute, Florence (invited speaker).
  • November 2014, ‘Possibilities for new workplace organisation: workers refusal and the challenges for trade unions’, Historical Materialism, London.
  • October 2014, ‘Investigating the workplace: history and contemporary cases (call-centre-study)’, Laborious Actions: International forum on collective actions in the IT sphere, St Petersburg, Russia (invited talk).
  • July 2014, ‘Precarious labour in the UK: the impact of neoliberalism and the possibilities for resistance and organisation’ and ‘Towards a method for activist-scholar research collaborations: taking inspiration from the tradition of the workers' inquiry’, International Sociological Association World Congress, Japan.
  • April 2014, ‘Examining the labour process in a call centre: from bad jokes to the possibilities for resistance’, International Labour Process Conference, London.
  • March 2014, ‘The workers’ inquiry as a method: possibilities for resistance and organisation in a UK call centre’, Critical Labour Studies Conference, Ruskin College, Oxford.
  • February 2014, ‘Workers’ inquiry in a UK call centre: possibilities for resistance and organisation’, Geographies of resistance: neoliberal violence and crisis, University of Oxford.
  • November 2013, ‘Between exploitation and resistance: towards a workers’ inquiry for the 21st century’, Historical Materialism, London.
  • September 2013, ‘“Smiling down the phone”: a workers’ inquiry into call centre conditions’, Work, Employment & Society Conference, University of Warwick.
  • May 2013, ‘A workers’ inquiry into a charity fundraising call centre’, Ephemera: the politics of workers’ inquiry, University of Essex.
  • November 2012, ‘An attempt at a workers' inquiry in a call centre: possibilities of resistance, potential for organisation’, Historical Materialism, London.

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