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Steven P Vallas

@spvallas.bsky.social

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Longtime student of work, technology, and class domination. Current research centers on labor platforms and logistics workers at Amazon. Dogs, forestry, Celtics, & Frankfurt School among my passions.

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Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Aug 8

Anyone know much about Amazon Haul? It doesn’t yet work, but it seems to disintermediate its supply chains -it puts consumers directly in touch with foreign producers, undercutting brand name companies. Tariff avoidance maybe? Share observations.

Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · May 23

Thrilled to share the transcript of our conversation with Hatim Rahman regarding his new book, *Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers* (with many thanks to Lindsay Cameron):
wipsociology.org/2025/05/20/author-meets-critics-engaging-hatim-rahmans-inside-the-invisible-cage/

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Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Even primary school kids have more wisdom than the mad king has developed in his seventy very odd years.

Best part is the teacher’s approval at the bottom.

Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Apr 9

The Nazis relied on Taylorism in the death camps so this is in character, no? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ice director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

www.theguardian.com

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Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Apr 9

The last time I remember hearing a senior official claiming that the markets weren’t exhibiting systemic problems was (wait for it) August 2007. This is terrifying.

Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Apr 7

Crash dummy is in charge

Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · Apr 7

seatbelts

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · Apr 7

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · Apr 7

seatbelts

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Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Apr 3

So at what point does the capitalist class, fractured and ill educated though it might be, actually begin to feel a smidgeon of buyer’s remorse?

Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Mar 12

Why would you make a deal with a lawless madman?

Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Mar 5

Totally true. Theodore Adorno very much agreed. See also the recent discussion in Toscano, Late Fascism, which perfectly agrees with your post.

Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Mar 5

Sharing this with @marionf.bsky.social and @kjhealy.co

Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Mar 5

One of the more provocative books on digital capitalism that’s recently appeared is THE ORDINAL SOCIETY by Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy. Attached here is my review.

www.wipsociology.org/2025/03/04/c...

Class, Power, and Digital Technology: A review of Fourcade and Healy, The Ordinal Society – Work in Progress

www.wipsociology.org

Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Mar 5

Class, Power, and Digital Technology: A review of Fourcade and Healy, The Ordinal Society – Work in Progress

www.wipsociology.org

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Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Feb 26

Jeff Bezos has just opted to end all opinion pieces at the Washington Post that fail to advance Hayekian “personal liberties and free markets.” Another pillar of democracy crushed in the blink of an eye. Just cancelled.

Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Feb 25

Just his Canadian citizenship?
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

More than 230,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship

Experts say the effort, which is not expected to succeed, reflects anger over Musk’s alliance with Trump, who has threatened Canada with tariffs and annexation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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WORK2025 Conference @work2025fi.bsky.social · Feb 14

The last but definitely not the least keynote speaker for #WORK2025fi conference is Emeritus Professor Steven Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social (USA) with the title “Platform Capitalism Revisited: The Coming of Algorithmic Society.”

Submit your abstract by 20 February at www.work2025.fi!

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Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Feb 12

Let’s call things by their right names…

Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Feb 12

Yeah but the submission systems are uniformly user hostile so there’s that too.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Feb 12

Saw this over on Threads, and, yeah…

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · Feb 12

The British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social have removed replaced "gender" with "sex" in their member equality survey, and erased the "non-binary" response option entirely.

Love to see the professional body of sociology echoing Donald Trump.

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Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social · Feb 6

Happy to share link to our blog post “Republic of Fear? Complexity and Coercion in Amazon’s Warehouses”

www.wipsociology.org/2025/01/20/r...

Republic of Fear? Complexity and Coercion in Amazon Warehouses – Work in Progress

www.wipsociology.org

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