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The popular ridesharing app has been at the centre of numerous controversies in the past months. ‘Delete Uber account’ has become a more and more popular search term as the truth about the company is slowly uncovered. But what caused such a strong international backlash towards the world’s most valuable start-up?

Saša Uhlová’s investigative project explores workplace conditions in the worst-paid jobs in Czech Republic

We have to get rid of the centrality of work to our lives. We have to build alternatives.

The Marxist feminist talks about the relationship between anti-work politics and the struggle against patriarchy.

More than anything, this corporate culture builds a fantasy that shouldn’t be underestimated: that everyone belongs to the middle class.

The reported unemployment rate in the Žilina region is 6 percent, which is below the average for Slovakia. We assumed it would be easy to locate workers willing to be interviewed. We were wrong. As a result, we compiled this report out of three interviews with employees of three different companies based in this region.

Oksana Dutchak has presented the results of her research “Wages and working conditions of the garment industry workers in Ukraine” within TEXTUS exhibition at Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC). The research was conducted in January-March 2017. Political Critique has interviewed Oksana about its details. Oksana, is this your own project? No, I was working within a […]

Vassilis was dressed in a white Ralf Lauren shirt from thick fabric, a slim, silk tie and creased trousers. Fine black, leather shoes. He was a man in his early thirties, with a Masters in some economic field and a recent PhD Candidate. All seemed right that warm night at a restaurant of a seaside […]

„People can’t just pack their things and go work in Bratislava: home is home.”

The situation of humanities academics in the Czech Republic is nothing short of disastrous. Why are intellectuals facing destruction? Is there a way out?