Algorithmic management (AM) is reshaping work in many industries. However, what is done to redress potential risks is little understood. This study explores how trade unions, employers, and government actors assess AM-related occupational safety and health (OSH) risks and their strategies to understand how industrial relations could influence the safety and health of workers managed by digital technologies. Drawing on the Pressure, Disorganisation and Regulatory failure (PDR) model and interview and document data from Sweden, we find a gradually increasing interest in AM in the early 2020s among the government and the social partners. Unions learn, inform, and bargain about AM; employers enact ‘healthy discipline’; and government agencies inspect digital risks in workplaces. Moreover, economic and reward pressures contribute to AM-associated OSH risks. Disorganisation manifests as a lack of knowledge about the OSH effects of AM, leading to ineffective OSH management. Regulatory failure is reflected in new EU regulations stalling national-level initiatives, since the overlapping regulations complicate the enforcement of existing OSH regulations. This study highlights the crucial role of trade unions in advancing the agenda on AM-related OSH risks. It also makes a theoretical contribution by extending the PDR model, offering insights into the driving forces shaping AM and compromising OSH beyond the workplace level – highlighting wider politico-economic and institutional dynamics influencing OSH.

We study a discrete process on planar convex bodies in which, at each step, a body is replaced by a weighted Minkowski average of itself and its rotation by a fixed angle. Up to translation and uniform scaling, this produces a rigid averaging dynamical system. We give a complete classification of the limit shapes. If the angle is an irrational multiple of $2\pi $, the iterates converge to a disk. If the angle is rational, they converge to the average of finitely many rotated copies of the initial body. We also obtain sharp convergence rates. In the rational case, the decay is uniform and exponential with an explicit constant depending only on the weight and the denominator of the angle. For irrational angles, we prove quantitative rates under a mild number-theoretic condition that holds for almost every angle: low regularity inputs have polynomial decay up to a logarithmic factor, while real analytic inputs have stretched exponential decay. For angles with bounded continued fraction coefficients, we give matching lower bounds along subsequences. These results describe the global attractors of the dynamics and indicate the absence of chaotic behaviour.

This article addresses the expansion of urban public services in major Nordic cities, from 1850 to 1920. We argue that changes in political discourse were the driving force that prompted politicians to act on behalf of the urban public, significantly before the rise of the universal welfare state. The discursive changes are explored through three analytic concepts: publicness, urban citizenship and the welfare city. We start by presenting a short overview of the development of urban public services. Then we demonstrate how these concepts may be used in conjunction to explain the historical changes. Finally, the material effects are discussed in three case-studies, addressing freshwater pipes, public transport and municipal health care, respectively.

Rising concerns about poor adolescent mental health have often focused on girls and self-harm, yet growing evidence highlights the negative impact on boys—particularly those who feel alienated and turn to online spaces for socialization. This carries the risk of exposure to extremist content, as seen in toxic subcultures like the incel movement, and dramatized in the recent Netflix series Adolescence (2025). Declining face-to-face socialization and weakened parental support further compound vulnerabilities. Addressing this crisis requires multi-level interventions, including digital literacy education, stronger online safety regulations, and community-based mental health support. Urgent policy action and further research are needed to mitigate the harmful effects of online radicalization on youth.

This article discusses the characterization of a shell as labyrinthine in Theodoridas, Anth. Pal. 6.224 (= 3524–9 Gow–Page, HE). It contextualizes the description in relation to a myth about Daedalus on Sicily, Theodoridas’ probable homeland. It then reappraises the implications of the phrase for the aesthetics of the epigram.

This article investigates identity formation among contemporary South American electroacoustic music composers through the lens of place, territory and socio-political context. Drawing on interviews with 27 composers from across the continent, the study explores how artistic practices are shaped by affective ties to geography, histories of colonialism, academic migration and technology. The analysis highlights five intersecting identity factors: mestizaje and cultural hybridity, decolonial thinking, political activism through sound composition, the tension between belonging and displacement in artistic mobility and the workaround aesthetic rooted in limited resources. Rather than portraying scarcity as a limitation, composers often embrace it as a creative force that fosters innovation and local specificity. The findings suggest that electroacoustic music in South America reflects not only a diversity of individual trajectories but also shared cultural dynamics that distinguish the region’s creative processes. These insights contribute to broader discussions on decolonisation, identity and the global circulation of music technologies.

This article examines how intersectional ideologies and experiences of marginalization affect the extent to which African Americans support or oppose the marginalization of LGBTQ+ communities. We posit that awareness of the race-gender positionality of African American women, as well as the unique positionalities of other marginalized African American subgroups, is critical to understanding the conditions under which Black Americans embrace LGBTQ+ rights and communities. Using the Black respondent subsample of the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Study, we test the extent to which intersectional theories explain African American cross-group consciousness with LGBTQ+ persons and support for LGBTQ+ rights and communities. In doing so, we distinguish multiple mechanisms through which identity intersections affect African American1 political attitudes, and we find that, though intersecting marginalized identities can be critical to fomenting African Americans’ support for the rights and concerns of LGBTQ+ communities, not all intersections lead to a more inclusive Black politics.

This article conceives of the prevalence of death occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic in older people’s care homes in the United Kingdom (UK) through the lens of necrocapitalism. There is significant evidence that pre-pandemic marketisation policies have structured endemic neglect in the sector, but these generalised failures are frequently not highlighted in the debates around the causes of COVID-19 deaths. The article seeks to specify the way caring has been re-fashioned through a specific form of necrotic privatisation, resting on degrading the intensity of caring, institutionalised via market-orientated regulation. COVID-19 fatalities in older people’s services are necrocapitalist as pre-existing the pandemic the sector was defined by forms of slow violence, exacerbated during the crisis. The de-regulation and cost-saving at the heart of commodified care denigrate older people’s existence, reorienting the value of care in terms of its potential to generate profit.

This article proposes the electromagnetic soundwalk as an anti-method for consumer research, a compositional practice that listens to the infrastructural residue of market environments without aiming to interpret, represent or explain. Using a handheld electromagnetic detector, the walk transposes imperceptible emissions into audible frequencies, revealing the operational murmur of retail systems. These include devices such as wireless payment systems, contactless terminals, touch-screen tablets and digital signage, technologies that organise and condition consumer experience, but do so silently, beneath the threshold of ordinary perception. These electromagnetic emissions trace the infrastructures that shape and facilitate consumption yet remain formally outside marketing discourse. The soundwalk stages a form of methodological estrangement, where listening becomes a way of staying with systems that persist without expressive form. While rooted in soundwalking traditions, the project diverges from immersion or participation. Positioned within the sonic turn in consumer research, the paper reframes sound as residue, an ambient trace of logistical systems. For marketing, this is a speculative proposition. For sound studies, it is an example of compositional listening used to breach an adjacent field. What results is not a soundwalk for its own sake, but an acoustic method for hearing how consumer systems continue, quietly and without reward. The first section of the paper adopts a speculative and affective tone, free of citation, to evoke the experiential register of the method. Subsequent sections develop the theoretical and methodological foundations in a more conventional academic voice.

Commentators on the younger Pliny’s obituary of Silius Italicus (Ep. 3.7) have often remarked its chilly and emotionally distant tone. This article argues that Pliny’s stance towards Silius is more subtly antagonistic than has generally been realised. To that end, it explores various stratagems whereby Pliny strives to diminish Silius’ standing as politician and man of letters. Most important, Pliny problematises Silius’ suicide. He does so in two ways. The first is the terminological nebulousness of the clauus which, we are informed by Pliny, was the cause of Silius’ suicide. Perusal of Greek and Roman medical texts establishes that clauus can refer to a whole range of afflictions, some serious, others not, so that, in the absence of further clinical detail, it is difficult to determine whether the suicide was justified or not – especially since Pliny also lists a number of contingent circumstances which might have acted as a brake on Silius’ intention of killing himself. The second is to cast doubt on the philosophical, civic and familial validity of Silius’ suicide. All this stands in profound contrast to the expansive and highly apologist account of the suicide of Corellius Rufus (Ep. 1.12) which, in the article’s conclusion, is mined for the political implications to be drawn from it in relation both to Corellius and to Pliny himself.

The annelid genus Diopatra is a well-known example of marine ecosystem engineering, as it creates tubes in coastal sediments all around the world. In the Amazon coast, this annelid is common in intertidal estuarine areas and protected beaches. However, there are no data for the Amazon coast regarding studies on the meiofauna associated with Diopatra sp. tubes. Therefore, the present study characterized, for the first time, the meiofauna community found on a muddy-sandy tidal flat of the Amazon coast in areas with and without the presence of Diopatra sp. tubes. Samples were collected in February 2014 in two different areas: (1) an area in which Diopatra sp. tubes were present, and (2) an area without tubes. A total of 13 major meiofaunal groups were found, with Nematoda as the dominant group. Overall, a significant increase in meiofauna density and richness of the meiofauna was observed in the area with the presence of Diopatra sp. tubes. While no large aggregations of Diopatra sp. tubes were observed in the study region, the presence of even a single tube had significant effects on the environmental conditions available to the meiofauna community. The present findings add knowledge about the presence of the bioconstructor in coastal areas and reinforce the role of tube-building polychaetes as ecosystem engineers.

Malgré le fait que le Nouveau-Brunswick est la seule province officiellement bilingue au Canada, l’accès aux soins de santé dans la langue officielle de la minorité semble demeurer un grand défi. La province est l’une de celles avec la plus grande proportion de personnes âgées de 65 ans et plus, dont 35 % sont francophones. Le but de cette étude qualitative de type théorisation ancrée était d’identifier comment les personnes aînées francophones en situation minoritaire accèdent aux soins en français. Des entrevues avec des personnes âgées provenant des trois communautés francophones minoritaires au N.-B. furent réalisées. Les résultats mettent en lumière le processus de « l’identité contre la vulnérabilité » en présentant six étapes qui illustrent le faible nombre d’actions entreprises pour accéder aux soins de santé en français. De plus, l’influence constante de facteurs extrinsèques et intrinsèques affecte l’étape où on s’identifie comme francophone, ce qui accentue la vulnérabilité de la personne aînée dans le système de santé.

This article examines the historical and ongoing role of public agricultural research and extension in shaping avocado production in southern Turkey. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, expert interviews, and documentary analysis, I find that the making of Turkey’s avocado production base owes to a century-long state involvement in agricultural research and development. Contrary to the assumption that global markets single-handedly shape contemporary production and export geographies in the global South, in the case of Turkey’s avocado production it is not the market per se, but extensionists on the ground who actively advocate for risk-taking, efficient, export-oriented production methods. Despite the push for export-oriented production, smallholders continue to prioritize the domestic market by choosing to produce locally popular and more cold-hardy cultivars that are less prone to frost damage. Findings suggest that while public agricultural research and development were indispensable in creating the material conditions for this high-value crop boom in southern Turkey, farmers’ agency and local contextual factors ultimately shape the trajectory of this production geography. The analysis also demonstrates a persistent disconnect between the state’s agricultural vision and farmers’ realities, which explains why the avocado boom has remained a primarily domestic, rather than export-oriented, phenomenon.