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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work
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Exploring the politics of disablement and precarious work (of all forms) under capitalism [ @cerasellachis.bsky.social ] disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | anti-disablement https://disprecwork.wordpress.com
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Apr 30
A year ago, on #InternationalWorkersDay, I submitted my thesis for examination (I should've added the full date on the front page, hmm!).

IWD = best day of the year and the one most worthy of celebrating/marking

Solidarity on #MayDay!
The politics of disablement and precarious work in the UK Prefiguring a Non-Productivist Future by Ioana Cerasella Chis A thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Artwork by William Estrada (reproduced here with permission) - the artwork is a representation of a group of people resting in a forest, around a fire, in the evening. At the bottom, it reads 'we rest so we can build'. Supervisory team: Dr Emma A Foster & Dr Laura Jenkins Department of Political Science and International Studies Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · 3d
#18 - Gus
'Doing less things but to a better standard is as valuable as this intensification that we've ended up in. Say no, just say no!'
- Gus 2/2
'In hindsight, across my life, I just wish I'd learned to say "no" an awful lot more. I've just really come to realise that actually doing less doesn't mean that you have achieved less. I wish I had a much better sense of that when I was a young man coming into my career, really. Doing less things but to a better standard is as valuable as this intensification that we've ended up in. Say no, just say no!' - Gus
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · 3d
#18 - Gus
'In hindsight, across my life, I just wish I'd learned to say "no" an awful lot more. I've just really come to realise that actually doing less doesn't mean that you have achieved less. I wish I had a much better sense of that when I was a young man coming into my career, really'
- Gus 1/2
'In hindsight, across my life, I just wish I'd learned to say "no" an awful lot more. I've just really come to realise that actually doing less doesn't mean that you have achieved less. I wish I had a much better sense of that when I was a young man coming into my career, really. Doing less things but to a better standard is as valuable as this intensification that we've ended up in. Say no, just say no!' - Gus
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · 14d
'Just keep your eyes, your ears, and your heart open to see them, to listen to them, to connect with them. And I'd send them a big smile'.
- Ronald 3/3
#Rest #Disability #Work
'Avoid burnout and keep some positivity. That's very important: having a positive vision for the future. Yes, there are many challenges, but we are all together. We're going to make it. And if the box doesn't fit you, throw it. Don't try the second time, the third time; just throw it. If it's not for you, it's not worth the effort. Throughout the journey you're going to come across wonderful people. Just keep your eyes, your ears, and your heart open to see them, to listen to them, to connect with them. And I'd send them a big smile'. - Ronald
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · 14d
And if the box doesn't fit you, throw it. Don't try the second time, the third time; just throw it. If it's not for you, it's not worth the effort. Throughout the journey you're going to come across wonderful people'.
- Ronald 2/3
#Rest #Disability #Work
'Avoid burnout and keep some positivity. That's very important: having a positive vision for the future. Yes, there are many challenges, but we are all together. We're going to make it. And if the box doesn't fit you, throw it. Don't try the second time, the third time; just throw it. If it's not for you, it's not worth the effort. Throughout the journey you're going to come across wonderful people. Just keep your eyes, your ears, and your heart open to see them, to listen to them, to connect with them. And I'd send them a big smile'. - Ronald
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · 14d
#17 - Ronald

''Avoid burnout and keep some positivity. That's very important: having a positive vision for the future. Yes, there are many challenges, but we are all together. We're going to make it. And if the box doesn't fit you, throw it'.
- Ronald 1/3
#Rest #Disability #Work
'Avoid burnout and keep some positivity. That's very important: having a positive vision for the future. Yes, there are many challenges, but we are all together. We're going to make it. And if the box doesn't fit you, throw it. Don't try the second time, the third time; just throw it. If it's not for you, it's not worth the effort. Throughout the journey you're going to come across wonderful people. Just keep your eyes, your ears, and your heart open to see them, to listen to them, to connect with them. And I'd send them a big smile'. - Ronald
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · 19d
‘This connection between life and organising might be an answer to our constant burnout. Rather than individualising our capacities to resist – reflecting the pressures placed upon us by our precarious working lives – we can begin collectivising our projects’ scottishleftreview.scot/precarity-an...
Precarity and the Collectivization of Struggle
Panos Theodoropoulos shares notes for organisers in Scotland based on years of struggle alongside precarious migrants in Glasgow.
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · 19d
Panos Theodoropoulos on precarity & IWW’s General Defence Committees: ‘The idea is to create a feedback loop where the community is connected to the workplace, & vice versa. Such initiatives allow us to go beyond seeing solidarity as a form of “activism”’ scottishleftreview.scot/precarity-an...
Precarity and the Collectivization of Struggle
Panos Theodoropoulos shares notes for organisers in Scotland based on years of struggle alongside precarious migrants in Glasgow.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Aug 25
CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series.

Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.

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"A vintage green typewriter with a blank yellow sheet of paper inserted, set against a solid red background."
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Aug 19
‘Don't you know how busy and important I am?
I got soooo much to do
Don't you know how busy and important I am?
I got soooooo much to do
Oh, I'm too busy to finish this so—‘

youtu.be/iG9h3KUtaIc?...

#PoliticsOfRest
Tom Rosenthal - Don't You Know How Busy & Important I Am? (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Tom Rosenthal
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Aug 15
'And organise - organise, organise, organise. If we all got together and really insisted on what we need, it'd be difficult for them to keep fucking us over one-by-one, which is I think what happens to workers who are precarious in body/mind, as they see it'
- Ursula 3/3
'Self-care is absolutely crucial. You can't help others or produce anything if you are unable to look after yourself and your needs, so that you are meeting the world with your best self, your best good, feeling, capable self. If you don't look after yourself, you get into the spiral where you work too hard, try too hard, and it breaks you. It's not productive for you, it's not self-fulfilling and it usually backfires on you. And organise - organise, organise, organise. If we all got together and really insisted on what we need, it'd be difficult for them to keep fucking us over one-by-one, which is I think what happens to workers who are precarious in body/mind, as they see it'. - Ursula
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Aug 15
'If you don't look after yourself, you get into the spiral where you work too hard, try too hard, and it breaks you. It's not productive for you, it's not self-fulfilling and it usually backfires on you'.
- Ursula 2/3
'Self-care is absolutely crucial. You can't help others or produce anything if you are unable to look after yourself and your needs, so that you are meeting the world with your best self, your best good, feeling, capable self. If you don't look after yourself, you get into the spiral where you work too hard, try too hard, and it breaks you. It's not productive for you, it's not self-fulfilling and it usually backfires on you. And organise - organise, organise, organise. If we all got together and really insisted on what we need, it'd be difficult for them to keep fucking us over one-by-one, which is I think what happens to workers who are precarious in body/mind, as they see it'. - Ursula
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Aug 15
#16 - Ursula

'Self-care is absolutely crucial. You can't help others or produce anything if you are unable to look after yourself and your needs, so that you are meeting the world with your best self, your best good, feeling, capable self'.
- Ursula 1/3
'Self-care is absolutely crucial. You can't help others or produce anything if you are unable to look after yourself and your needs, so that you are meeting the world with your best self, your best good, feeling, capable self. If you don't look after yourself, you get into the spiral where you work too hard, try too hard, and it breaks you. It's not productive for you, it's not self-fulfilling and it usually backfires on you. And organise - organise, organise, organise. If we all got together and really insisted on what we need, it'd be difficult for them to keep fucking us over one-by-one, which is I think what happens to workers who are precarious in body/mind, as they see it'. - Ursula
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Aug 12
Yesterday, I presented at the American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social Annual Conference, on the Disability, Work & Economies of Difference panel. Many thanks to Richard Scotch for excellent chairing and to Pyung Kim, Junzhe Gu, Jennifer Brooks & Matthew Saleh for great presentations!
120th ASA Annual Meeting Reimagining the Future of Work August 8-12, 2025 Chicago, IL ASA The poster includes a representation of six people working at a table.
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Jul 25
'The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked'.
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · Jul 25
“In this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.”

1: Emulate Bertrand Russell.
2: Post his writings to motivate others.

harpers.org/archive/1932...
In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell
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countrylawer.bsky.social @countrylawer.bsky.social · Jul 25
“In this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.”

1: Emulate Bertrand Russell.
2: Post his writings to motivate others.

harpers.org/archive/1932...
In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell
harpers.org
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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · Jul 25
SLSA-MDN Disability & Rights Conference - Opening Remarks (Clare Williams) & Workers’ and Charities’ Mobilisation of Rights panel (Shruti Iyer & Linda Steele)

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vx...

Abstracts: marxismdisability.wordpress.com/their-rights...

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#Marxism (1/8)
SLSA-MDN Disability & Rights Conference - Workers’ and Charities’ Mobilisation of Rights panel
YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory
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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · Jul 25
The 8 video recordings of the Disability & Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism conference co-organised/hosted with the SLSA Disability Law and Social Justice Stream are now available online!
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/v...
#Marxism #Disability
[Videos] SLSA-MDN Conference – Disability & Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism
On Friday, 13th of June & Saturday, 14th of June 2025, the Disability Law and Social Justice Stream of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and the Marxism and Disability Network …
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Leisure Studies Association [LSA] @leisure-studies.bsky.social · Jul 20
New LSA Executive Members:

A warm welcome to...

---Adam Talbot (Research and Enterprise Officer): [UWS]

---Adele Doran (Membership Officer): [Sheffield Hallam]

---Ioana Cerasella Chis (Ordinary Member): [University of Birmingham]

---Alberto Amore (Ordinary Member): [University of Oulu]
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Jul 18
‘and will not be solved, by the arithmetic of the market forces that are displayed in full ferocity in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’.
- Norman Willis’ lecture on Tressell and the Unions
by the present sort of sensible, business arithmetic. We still have to make the case for our sort of sensible arithmetic that is based upon community care, the sharing of responsibility, the sharing of resources and the fact that most of the problems that now confront the great mass of working people in this country cannot be solved, and will not be solved, by the arithmetic of the market forces that are displayed in full ferocity in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Robert Noonan,
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Jul 18
‘We still have to make the case for our sort of sensible arithmetic that is based upon community care, the sharing of responsibility, the sharing of resources and the fact that most of the problems that now confront the great mass of working people in this country cannot be solved’ 1/2
by the present sort of sensible, business arithmetic. We still have to make the case for our sort of sensible arithmetic that is based upon community care, the sharing of responsibility, the sharing of resources and the fact that most of the problems that now confront the great mass of working people in this country cannot be solved, and will not be solved, by the arithmetic of the market forces that are displayed in full ferocity in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Robert Noonan,
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Jul 16
'There's just a lot of lip service and talk about mental health and talk about wellbeing and talk about work-life balance but actually, I just don't think a lot of it is making a different to people's lives. It's just words'.
- Amelie 3/3
'You can't work where there's a constant battle, it's just impossible. You might be able to do your day job but you're not going to be able to progress or enjoy it or rest, or get on with your life. I don't know what the advice is but hopefully don't spend time on that... I just think workplaces need to be different and people do need to be valued better and disabled people need better access to work and everyone needs better support at work, I think. There's just a lot of lip service and talk about mental health and talk about wellbeing and talk about work-life balance but actually, I just don't think a lot of it is making a different to people's lives. It's just words'. - Amelie
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Jul 16
'I just think workplaces need to be different and people do need to be valued better and disabled people need better access to work and everyone needs better support at work, I think'.
- Amelie 2/3
'You can't work where there's a constant battle, it's just impossible. You might be able to do your day job but you're not going to be able to progress or enjoy it or rest, or get on with your life. I don't know what the advice is but hopefully don't spend time on that... I just think workplaces need to be different and people do need to be valued better and disabled people need better access to work and everyone needs better support at work, I think. There's just a lot of lip service and talk about mental health and talk about wellbeing and talk about work-life balance but actually, I just don't think a lot of it is making a different to people's lives. It's just words'. - Amelie
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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Jul 16
#15 - Amelie

'You can't work where there's a constant battle, it's just impossible. You might be able to do your day job but you're not going to be able to progress or enjoy it or rest, or get on with your life. I don't know what the advice is but hopefully don't spend time on that..'
- Amelie 1/3
'You can't work where there's a constant battle, it's just impossible. You might be able to do your day job but you're not going to be able to progress or enjoy it or rest, or get on with your life. I don't know what the advice is but hopefully don't spend time on that... I just think workplaces need to be different and people do need to be valued better and disabled people need better access to work and everyone needs better support at work, I think. There's just a lot of lip service and talk about mental health and talk about wellbeing and talk about work-life balance but actually, I just don't think a lot of it is making a different to people's lives. It's just words'. - Amelie
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Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · Jul 16
Excellent interview and great playlist - including Billy Nomates' Call In Sick and my latest new favourite song by Johnny Paycheck: Take This Job and Shove It!
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Carl Rhodes @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social · Jul 15
Irresistible Magazine is the place where resistance meets fabulousness!

I had a great time talking to them about billionaires, economic injustice, neoliberalism, masculinity and so much more...

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Modern Heroes and Irresistible Writers: Carl Rhodes - Irresistible Magazine
Most of us won't have to worry about becoming billionaires, but as Carl Rhodes argues in his book Stinking Rich, not only are they a problem, but they're our problem, and we all have the means to do s...
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · Jul 16
“The amendment doesn’t take account..,the imbalance of power in workplaces & the characteristics of employees who are working on zero-hours contracts...many of those workers, vulnerable as they are, might come under pressure not to press for guaranteed hours"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Why zero-hours contracts could be here to stay in new blow to workers’ rights
Plans by the Government to crack down on zero-hour contracts in the workplace have suffered a setback
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