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JOVANA GEORGIEVSKI The opening of the “We Have Built Cities for You” exhibition on June 13 at the Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion in Belgrade, gathered artists and researchers from all the countries that once made up Yugoslavia. The exhibition was organized as part of events commemorating 20 years of the Përtej (Beyond) exhibition in 1997, […]

With hype around automation and robotisation at fever pitch, many argue that we will soon see mass labour disappear altogether. Sociologist Antonio Casilli begs to differ. Work is not disappearing, he argues in this interview with Lorenzo Marsili, but is being transformed by the giants of the digital economy. Lorenzo Marsili: You claim that fears […]

Coal accounts for about a quarter of energy produced in Romania, so why aren’t the discussions about a coal phaseout much more advanced?

To date, Czechia has not announced any date for a coal phaseout, although the country has signed up to the Paris Agreement and the national energy strategy envisages a decreased role for fossil fuels over the coming decades.

’When the government made a political decision to close the coal plants, no money was made available to compensate the workers,’ said Patrick van Klink, representing the Federation of Dutch Trade Unions (FNV), the largest confederation in the country. ‘We want there to be a fund to compensate the workers for income loss or pension […]

It is a sunny Saturday morning in October and the clock in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol shows almost half past eleven. I’m meeting Malik a bit further up, in the Lavapiés neighbourhood. These days, Lavapiés is buzzing with young people playing African music, dancing flamenco in the street and drinking cheap beer. Traditionally, though, it […]

After the complete failure of leftist parties in last month’s Parliamentary elections, Czech journalist and co-founder of A2larm, Jan Bělíček, put forward an analysis of this defeat that draws interesting parallels with Poland. ‘One of the reason the Left lost’, he stated in an interview for the major Czech weekly political newsmagazine Respekt, ‘was that […]

The unrelenting challenges of overwhelming technological development entail a future of despair for large parts of our species. Alienated in an interconnected world, condemned to be forgotten, hampered by inequality and unemployment, we are now experiencing the shock waves of globalisation. Our labour —our primary means of survival — is central to the current crisis. […]

Uhlová’s project, entitled The Heroes of Capitalist Labour, exposes the dark side of Czech Republic’s alleged post-communist economic success.

What’s it like working for minimum wage in a hospital laundry room? Saša Uhlová’s investigative project explores workplace conditions in the worst-paid jobs in Czech Republic.