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Part-time jobs, no benefits: The real state of the working class
In his March 6 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden declared, “We have the best economy in the world.” He said millions of new jobs had been created in the last three years and that unemployment was at record lows.
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‘Push’ notifications: A secret spying frontier
In this piece, Kit Klarenberg provides valuable insight into how push notifications are being used by governments to spy on users.
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Apple warns of flaw that invites hackers into iPhones, iPads, Macs
Apple releases security patches to fix a vulnerability that hackers may be taking advantage of.
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U.S. media support tech regulation—unless it comes from China
Recently, U.S. media have been aghast at legislation affecting China’s tech sector.
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Breaking the Glass Screen – Framing monopoly capitalism in global commodity chains
In 2007–a digital time not spatially long ago–a month before the iPhone was production scheduled, the late Steven Jobs took some of his staff to an office. He had been carrying a prototype of the device in his pocket daily for weeks.
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Dimensions of economic power: today’s key corporations
The images below are from a lecture I gave to at SOAS, London University, on 18 October. This was part of a series organised by the SOAS Economics Department, and my lecture covered the forms taken by corporate power today, focusing on Apple, Google/Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon and Alibaba.
