UNION has been shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature for the 97th Academy Awards®. It is an honor to be included on this list of 15 extraordinary documentaries. Congratulations to the other films! Rent UNION now at unionthefilm.com.

The advance copy of my article on the drafting of the 1930 Forced Labour Convention is out with Melbourne Journal of International Law! The article lays out how the approach to coercive labor that has come down to us was sharply limited by the colonial circumstances of its framing. law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/…

Due to an unforced error by Democrats, we lost the National Labor Relations Board majority two years earlier than expected. This is a huge setback for the hundreds of thousands of workers across this country organizing for a better contract. Let me explain. 🧵

On 29 Jan, Joe Atkinson and I are convening a (hybrid) conference at University of Southampton on the UK Employment Rights Bill 2024. Supported by The SLS. Register at Eventbrite link below. Panels:

Excited to be joining the Law & Political Economy Summer Academy in Rotterdam (2-4 June 2025) this year. Applications now open: lpeineurope.org/wp-content/upl…

Wrapping up another episode of 🎧Migration Unboxed🎧 - 📸 Bridget with guests Janine Dahinden - also janine.dahinden.bsky.social and Manoj Dias-Abey. They've clearly had fun talking about migrantization and the law! Episode 3 drops very soon - catch up on the MMB podcast here 👉👉 bit.ly/4gTc2a8

🔶New issue of Futures of Work. Issue 30 features five articles by PhD students, offering fresh insights on topics like gig work, internships, diamond polishing, and call centers across South America, India and Europe. #PhDStudents #LabourMarket futuresofwork.co.uk

Constructing Modern Slavery by Judy Fudge Constructing Modern Slavery argues that modern slavery laws divert attention from the underlying structures and processes that generate labour exploitation. 📚 cup.org/4ftyMLK #sociolegal

We have a limited number of bursaries for early-career scholars to attend in person. Contact me for more details and please circulate to anyone interested!

Happening TODAY! Care Work and the Global South Fourth Annual Lecture in the Laws of Social Reproduction ⚖️♀️ 1pm GMT 6.30pm IST The Dickson Poon School of Law ILO India IDWF - International Domestic Workers Federation WIEGO Law and Society SLSA McGill University kcl.ac.uk/events/care-wo…

My book has a cover! Strange to have more than a decade of thinking and many years of research distilled into a single image, but thanks to the designers UChicagoPress

Enjoyed this wide-ranging conversation with Bridget Anderson and Janine Dahinden about 'migrantisation', the academic gaze and creating national labour markets through immigration law. MigrationMobilitiesUoB Available from most podcast platforms: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how…

My take on the how and why of a new union movement, even in these times. jacobin.com/2025/02/union-…

'Rethinking Migration', the edited collection from University of Bristol's Migration Mobilities Bristol is out! A real feat of interdisciplinary collaboration. Availble for free download from the @brisunipress site. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/rethinking-mig…

"The article traces Fascist Italy’s participation in the International Labour Organization. The Italian presence was marked both by tensions—originating mainly from the removal of trade union freedom imposed by Mussolini’s regime—and by convergences." journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Today! Tuesday 18 March 12.00-14.00 How can we better connect migration research and policy? In person and online. ✍️ Register ⬇️

Australia is banning non-competes for most workers. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Please share! I'm editing a special issue of International Labor and Working Class History on "The Global Labor History of Artificial Intelligence" with Susannah Glickman (Stony Brook). Please submit an abstract for our issue if this is your topic! networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

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