Refereed Journal Articles
Cole, M., 2022. (Infra)structural Discontinuity: Capital, Labour, and Technological Change. Antipode. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12887
Cole, M., Stuart, M., Hardy, K., Spencer, D., 2022. Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time. Work, Employment and Society 09500170221111719. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170221111719
Howson, K., Johnston, H., Cole, M., Ferrari, F., Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., 2022. Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks. Global Networks. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12407
Cole, M., Cant, C., Ustek Spilda, F., Graham, M., 2022. Politics by Automatic Means? A Critique of Artificial Intelligence Ethics at Work. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.869114
Howson, K, Ustek Spilda, F, Bertolini, A, Heeks, R, Ferrari, F, Katta, S, Cole, M, Aguera Reneses, P, Salem, N, Steward, S, Graham, M, Sutcliff, D, (2021) ‘Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic’. International Labour Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12222
Cole, M, (2020) ‘Les machines intélligentes. Une brève synthèse historique’, Les Mondes du Travail, (24–25), pp. 115–123. Translated by Françoise Piotet.
Book Chapters
Ustek-Spilda, F, Ferrari, F, Cole, M, Aguera-Reneses, P, Graham, M, (2021) The Infrastructural Power of Platform Capitalism. Social Europe Publishing in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, pp. 1–7. https://www.socialeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Dossier_Transformation_of_Work.pdf
Cole, M, Radice, H, Umney, C, (2020) ‘The Political Economy of Datafication and Work: A New Digital Taylorism?’ Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living. Monthly Review Press, New York.
Cole, M, (2018) Exploitation, in: The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. pp. 303-310. doi:10.5040/9781474278737.ch-032
Other Journal Articles
Cole, M, (2015) Book review: Jennifer M Silva, Coming up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty. Work, Employment and Society 29, 525–526. doi:10.1177/0950017015572332
Cole, M, (2015) Book review: The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It. Review of Political Economy 27, 679–682. doi:10.1080/09538259.2015.1080469
Reports
Spencer, D, Cole, M, Joyce, S, Whittaker, X, Stuart, M (2021) Digital Automation and The Future of Work. Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA) of the European Parliament. Brussels. Available at: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/en/document/EPRS_STU(2021)656311
Cole, M, (2019) IG Metall and the 28-hour week.In: Stronge, W, (Ed.) The Shorter Working Week: A Radical And Pragmatic Proposal. Hampshire: Autonomy Institute. http://autonomy.work/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Shorter-working-week-docV5.pdf.
Cole, M, (2018) Automation. Autonomy Institute, Available at: http://autonomy.work/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Automation-V6.pdf
Other Selected Publications
Cole, M, (2021) The Wage Theft Epidemic. Tribune Magazine. Available at: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/11/wage-theft-karl-marx-capitalism-workers-bosses-labour
Cole, M, (2021) How Value Weaponises the Machine. Verso blog. (available at: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5068-how-value-weaponises-the-machine)
Cole, M, (2020) Automation Will Create More Jobs, But Most Will Be Shit. Novara Media. London. (available at: https://novaramedia.com/2020/10/05/automation-will-create-more-jobs-but-most-will-be-shit/)
Cole, M, (2020). Why Silicon Valley Loves Coronavirus. Tribune Magazine. London. (available at: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/why-silicon-valley-loves-coronavirus)
Cole, M, (2018) Why a Strike at TGI Friday’s Is a Big Deal for Britain’s Pissed Off Hospitality Workers. Vice Magazine. (available at: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/435vm3/why-a-strike-at-tgi-fridays-is-a-big-deal-for-britains-pissed-off-hospitality-workers)
Cole, M, (2017) Platform and Value-Form’. Salvage Quarterly. London. (available at: http://salvage.zone/online-exclusive/platform-capitalism-and-value-form/)
Cole, M, (2017) It’s possible that we can build a society where people don’t have to work-here’s how’. The Independent. London. (available at: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/post-work-automation-robots-what-counts-as-work-in-the-first-place-a7899786.html)
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