January 26, 2026 at 4:12 AM
I have written a blog post about the (misleadingly named) soft skills that are so essential for library work, have been less valued/visible than they should be, and are increasingly important. www.lorcandempsey.net/soft-skills-...
So-called soft skills are hard
So-called soft skills are important across a range of library activities. Existing trends will further amplify this importance. Describing these skills as soft may be misleading, or even damaging. The...
www.lorcandempsey.net
March 12, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Did you know that women spend up to five times more time on unpaid work than men?
#InvisibleWork
#InvisibleLabour
#InvisibleWork
#InvisibleLabour
April 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Did you know that women spend up to five times more time on unpaid work than men?
#InvisibleWork
#InvisibleLabour
#InvisibleWork
#InvisibleLabour
Women’s unpaid labour is currently being glamorised and repositioned as empowering ‘self-care’. My book is a call to resist the retreat back to highly conservative and debilitating representations of housework. RESIST! #housework #unpaidlabour #mentalload #invisiblelabour @manchesterup.bsky.social
Manchester University Press - The return of the housewife
The return of the housewife - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The return of the housewife by Emma Casey
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Women’s unpaid labour is currently being glamorised and repositioned as empowering ‘self-care’. My book is a call to resist the retreat back to highly conservative and debilitating representations of housework. RESIST! #housework #unpaidlabour #mentalload #invisiblelabour @manchesterup.bsky.social
The tech we rely on is powered by millions of low-paid, invisible cloudworkers.
Our new report drops 20 May.
Join us to talk fairness, AI, and platform accountability.
🕑 2 PM BST
🔗 wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #Cloudwork #WorkerRights #InvisibleLabour #AI
Our new report drops 20 May.
Join us to talk fairness, AI, and platform accountability.
🕑 2 PM BST
🔗 wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #Cloudwork #WorkerRights #InvisibleLabour #AI
May 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The tech we rely on is powered by millions of low-paid, invisible cloudworkers.
Our new report drops 20 May.
Join us to talk fairness, AI, and platform accountability.
🕑 2 PM BST
🔗 wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #Cloudwork #WorkerRights #InvisibleLabour #AI
Our new report drops 20 May.
Join us to talk fairness, AI, and platform accountability.
🕑 2 PM BST
🔗 wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #Cloudwork #WorkerRights #InvisibleLabour #AI
The Weight of Domesticity: Why Housework Feels Like a Personal Insult
voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/11/t...
#Carework #Housework #Inequality #InvisibleLabour #MentalLoad
voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/11/t...
#Carework #Housework #Inequality #InvisibleLabour #MentalLoad
The Weight of Domesticity: Why Housework Feels Like a Personal Insult
Discover why housework triggers such visceral resentment. This groundbreaking analysis reveals the hidden architecture of domestic burden – spanning centuries of oppression, invisible cogniti…
voxmeditantis.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:06 AM
The Weight of Domesticity: Why Housework Feels Like a Personal Insult
voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/11/t...
#Carework #Housework #Inequality #InvisibleLabour #MentalLoad
voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/11/t...
#Carework #Housework #Inequality #InvisibleLabour #MentalLoad
Funny, I was just talking about the whole pensions for housewives issue yesterday.
The #invisiblelabour of the wife & mother. Even when I worked full time in a high torque job, I carried the #MotherLoad It nearly killed me.
And he still had an affair & left.
#Feminism
The #invisiblelabour of the wife & mother. Even when I worked full time in a high torque job, I carried the #MotherLoad It nearly killed me.
And he still had an affair & left.
#Feminism
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Funny, I was just talking about the whole pensions for housewives issue yesterday.
The #invisiblelabour of the wife & mother. Even when I worked full time in a high torque job, I carried the #MotherLoad It nearly killed me.
And he still had an affair & left.
#Feminism
The #invisiblelabour of the wife & mother. Even when I worked full time in a high torque job, I carried the #MotherLoad It nearly killed me.
And he still had an affair & left.
#Feminism
So pleased to see this out in the world! Keep an eye out for others in our (Clémence Pinel, Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein and me) collection on the #invisiblelabour of #translationalresearch
New OnlineFirst article: "Miscellaneous Care: Bridging the In-between of Translational Medicine" by Isabel Briz Hernández journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 26, 2024 at 11:22 AM
So pleased to see this out in the world! Keep an eye out for others in our (Clémence Pinel, Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein and me) collection on the #invisiblelabour of #translationalresearch
They don’t see, nor value, the #InvisibleLabour.
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
They don’t see, nor value, the #InvisibleLabour.
Are you joining us tomorrow?
We’re launching Fairwork Cloudwork 2025—a look into how millions of cloudworkers behind global tech are being left behind.
🕑 20 May | 2 PM BST
🔗 wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #Cloudwork #InvisibleLabour #AI #GigEconomy
We’re launching Fairwork Cloudwork 2025—a look into how millions of cloudworkers behind global tech are being left behind.
🕑 20 May | 2 PM BST
🔗 wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #Cloudwork #InvisibleLabour #AI #GigEconomy
May 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Are you joining us tomorrow?
We’re launching Fairwork Cloudwork 2025—a look into how millions of cloudworkers behind global tech are being left behind.
🕑 20 May | 2 PM BST
🔗 wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #Cloudwork #InvisibleLabour #AI #GigEconomy
We’re launching Fairwork Cloudwork 2025—a look into how millions of cloudworkers behind global tech are being left behind.
🕑 20 May | 2 PM BST
🔗 wzb-eu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Fairwork #Cloudwork #InvisibleLabour #AI #GigEconomy
"...trap of #VirtueSignalling, where the
appearance of inclusivity and collaboration masks #SystemicIssues of #PowerImbalances
and #Tokenism. Many #SignLanguageTechnology projects are designed and led by hearing..."
#InvisibleLabour
#DeafTax
#EpistemicExploitation
#SignedLanguageTechnologies
appearance of inclusivity and collaboration masks #SystemicIssues of #PowerImbalances
and #Tokenism. Many #SignLanguageTechnology projects are designed and led by hearing..."
#InvisibleLabour
#DeafTax
#EpistemicExploitation
#SignedLanguageTechnologies
Tomorrow at Ghent University, symposium about Language and Inclusion. I'll be presenting the new paper with EUD about co-creation, and the inconvenient truths of inclusive sign language technology development. arxiv.org/pdf/2408.13171
arxiv.org
November 21, 2024 at 12:47 PM
"...trap of #VirtueSignalling, where the
appearance of inclusivity and collaboration masks #SystemicIssues of #PowerImbalances
and #Tokenism. Many #SignLanguageTechnology projects are designed and led by hearing..."
#InvisibleLabour
#DeafTax
#EpistemicExploitation
#SignedLanguageTechnologies
appearance of inclusivity and collaboration masks #SystemicIssues of #PowerImbalances
and #Tokenism. Many #SignLanguageTechnology projects are designed and led by hearing..."
#InvisibleLabour
#DeafTax
#EpistemicExploitation
#SignedLanguageTechnologies
Missed our chat with James Muldoon from Essex Business School and Oxford Internet Institute on the hidden workforce powering AI?
🎧 Listen to the recording now on SoundCloud or YouTube:
🔗 on.soundcloud.com/s5CIpe3GdkVI...
🔗 youtu.be/gavBIA1AFr4
#EthicalAI #InvisibleLabour #FutureOfWork
🎧 Listen to the recording now on SoundCloud or YouTube:
🔗 on.soundcloud.com/s5CIpe3GdkVI...
🔗 youtu.be/gavBIA1AFr4
#EthicalAI #InvisibleLabour #FutureOfWork
March 26, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Missed our chat with James Muldoon from Essex Business School and Oxford Internet Institute on the hidden workforce powering AI?
🎧 Listen to the recording now on SoundCloud or YouTube:
🔗 on.soundcloud.com/s5CIpe3GdkVI...
🔗 youtu.be/gavBIA1AFr4
#EthicalAI #InvisibleLabour #FutureOfWork
🎧 Listen to the recording now on SoundCloud or YouTube:
🔗 on.soundcloud.com/s5CIpe3GdkVI...
🔗 youtu.be/gavBIA1AFr4
#EthicalAI #InvisibleLabour #FutureOfWork
“I see myself as a clock”, he told us. “The moment I wake up, I calculate everything… I don’t think of myself as a person, only as someone who is working.”
#InternationalStudents #Borders #InvisibleLabour #NorthernCyprus
📙Read on Futures of Work: https://ow.ly/bCZr50Y8bEH
#InternationalStudents #Borders #InvisibleLabour #NorthernCyprus
📙Read on Futures of Work: https://ow.ly/bCZr50Y8bEH
March 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
“I see myself as a clock”, he told us. “The moment I wake up, I calculate everything… I don’t think of myself as a person, only as someone who is working.”
#InternationalStudents #Borders #InvisibleLabour #NorthernCyprus
📙Read on Futures of Work: https://ow.ly/bCZr50Y8bEH
#InternationalStudents #Borders #InvisibleLabour #NorthernCyprus
📙Read on Futures of Work: https://ow.ly/bCZr50Y8bEH
🎧 Catch up on our recent event with Kate Hamblin and Emily Kenway on the policies needed to better support carers.
SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/PshA4T9PBfUe...
YouTube: youtu.be/dHrq4SrWfwg
#CarersUK #HealthAndSocialCare #InvisibleLabour
SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/PshA4T9PBfUe...
YouTube: youtu.be/dHrq4SrWfwg
#CarersUK #HealthAndSocialCare #InvisibleLabour
March 30, 2026 at 8:40 AM
🎧 Catch up on our recent event with Kate Hamblin and Emily Kenway on the policies needed to better support carers.
SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/PshA4T9PBfUe...
YouTube: youtu.be/dHrq4SrWfwg
#CarersUK #HealthAndSocialCare #InvisibleLabour
SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/PshA4T9PBfUe...
YouTube: youtu.be/dHrq4SrWfwg
#CarersUK #HealthAndSocialCare #InvisibleLabour
How does a global workforce of millions make AI possible?
Join James Muldoon (Essex Business School) for a conversation with Aida Garcia Lazaro about the unseen workforce behind AI.
📅 12 March | 6-7pm | Online
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-muld...
#InvisibleLabour #EthicalAI #FutureOfWork
Join James Muldoon (Essex Business School) for a conversation with Aida Garcia Lazaro about the unseen workforce behind AI.
📅 12 March | 6-7pm | Online
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-muld...
#InvisibleLabour #EthicalAI #FutureOfWork
March 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM
How does a global workforce of millions make AI possible?
Join James Muldoon (Essex Business School) for a conversation with Aida Garcia Lazaro about the unseen workforce behind AI.
📅 12 March | 6-7pm | Online
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-muld...
#InvisibleLabour #EthicalAI #FutureOfWork
Join James Muldoon (Essex Business School) for a conversation with Aida Garcia Lazaro about the unseen workforce behind AI.
📅 12 March | 6-7pm | Online
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-muld...
#InvisibleLabour #EthicalAI #FutureOfWork
🎤 Join James Muldoon (Essex Business School and Oxford Internet Institute) for an exploration of the precarious global workforce that make artificial intelligence possible.
12 March | 6-7pm | Online
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-muld...
#InvisibleLabour #EthicalAI #FutureOfWork
12 March | 6-7pm | Online
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-muld...
#InvisibleLabour #EthicalAI #FutureOfWork
January 27, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🎤 Join James Muldoon (Essex Business School and Oxford Internet Institute) for an exploration of the precarious global workforce that make artificial intelligence possible.
12 March | 6-7pm | Online
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-muld...
#InvisibleLabour #EthicalAI #FutureOfWork
12 March | 6-7pm | Online
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-muld...
#InvisibleLabour #EthicalAI #FutureOfWork
The women would have to organise it for the men who say this, along with the rest of their appointments and events.
#invisiblelabour #emotionallabour #unpaidlabour
#invisiblelabour #emotionallabour #unpaidlabour
March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The women would have to organise it for the men who say this, along with the rest of their appointments and events.
#invisiblelabour #emotionallabour #unpaidlabour
#invisiblelabour #emotionallabour #unpaidlabour
Uganda’s diaspora sent $1.42 billion home in 2024, about 3% of GDP.
They support millions while facing transfer fees as high as 15%.
Remittances are not just charity; they’re invisible labour powering development.
#Uganda #InvisibleLabour #AfCLAD #MovementMonitor #AfricanLabour
They support millions while facing transfer fees as high as 15%.
Remittances are not just charity; they’re invisible labour powering development.
#Uganda #InvisibleLabour #AfCLAD #MovementMonitor #AfricanLabour
August 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Uganda’s diaspora sent $1.42 billion home in 2024, about 3% of GDP.
They support millions while facing transfer fees as high as 15%.
Remittances are not just charity; they’re invisible labour powering development.
#Uganda #InvisibleLabour #AfCLAD #MovementMonitor #AfricanLabour
They support millions while facing transfer fees as high as 15%.
Remittances are not just charity; they’re invisible labour powering development.
#Uganda #InvisibleLabour #AfCLAD #MovementMonitor #AfricanLabour
I realise human error is to blame for some of these things, but it's going to take me time to sort these things out—time I really don't have just because someone has poor attention to detail.
The amount of extra work stuff like this costs me is infuriating.
#invisiblelabour
The amount of extra work stuff like this costs me is infuriating.
#invisiblelabour
August 9, 2024 at 9:47 AM
I realise human error is to blame for some of these things, but it's going to take me time to sort these things out—time I really don't have just because someone has poor attention to detail.
The amount of extra work stuff like this costs me is infuriating.
#invisiblelabour
The amount of extra work stuff like this costs me is infuriating.
#invisiblelabour
