Matthew Cole

Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment @Sussexuni | Co-Investigator @digitcentre | Les dés sont pipés

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @VersoBooks in May, 2026!

This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.

UK pre-order: https://t.co/t8nNGqSvIV

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

“The battle between oligarchic forces and democratic forces is the battle of the 21st century.”

On Downstream, French economist @Gabriel_Zucman explains that billionaires save almost 100% of their income – so their wealth grows faster than everyone else.

“If we don’t break that spiral, we’re going to see more wealth at the top and more concentration of power,” he explains.

A century ago, the world invented progressive income taxation. Now, Zucman argues, we need progressive wealth taxation.

Watch the full conversation between Zucman and @AaronBastani on our YouTube.

[Ben Wray @Ben_Wray1989]

Bring back Corbyn's 'cyber communism'

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

Today is launch day for my book! I’ll be talking about the history of wages and property as well as the future of unpaid labour tonight at Peer in London.

https://t.co/ahKvuM5GkJ

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Without exploitation, capitalism simply cannot survive.

Matthew Cole explains. @MattColeWorks

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

@MarcoFoster_ US wage theft is estimated at over £50 billion annually.

Its a structural problem with capitalism that is only getting worse.

https://t.co/OH9lqhR9GM

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

@produceflame @MarcoFoster_ you don't seem to know very much about how the law works do you?

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

Wage theft dwarfs all other types of theft by billions!

That's why I wrote a book about it.

@hasanthehun you might be interested?

https://t.co/OH9lqhR9GM

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “If you steal from the poor, you become rich. If you steal from the wealthy, you go to prison. There’s only one direction where you can do unlimited theft. Wage theft is the most consequential amount of theft that takes place in the United States of America”

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @VersoBooks in May, 2026!

This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.

UK pre-order: https://t.co/t8nNGqSvIV

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

Wage theft is a multi billion dollar scam that impacts everyone from cleaners to lawyers and the state still protects employers.

Check out my interview with @AvaSantina about my new book “Unpaid: the past present and future of wage theft”. Out May 26th with @VersoBooks

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Your boss is scamming you. This is how | Matthew Cole interview https://t.co/uzAMaRXIXh

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

Very excited that this is finally coming out!

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

Now available for preorder - Unpaid by Matthew Cole

"A searing and revelatory unmasking of the despicable reality of modern capitalism. Few books are able to make complex ideas so accessible – yet this is one of them." - @owenjonesjourno

https://t.co/00pzNCIICR

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

@NicholasTyrone @AaronBastani Markets are not capitalism, genius.

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

The Shadow Home Secretary is on @BBCRadio4 calling for people to have citizenship revoked and be deported without committing a crime if they express anti-white views.

And he’s barely challenged on this extremist view.

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

@BenedictSpence Move to Israel?

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

@RestIsPolitics @Google @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret @GoogleUK Incredible story with no basis in any of the empirical evidence from firms themselves, most of which have not adopted AI tools and the ones they have aren’t seeing much benefit.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Turkiye has issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials, accusing them of 'genocide and crimes against humanity' over Israel’s war on Gaza https://t.co/ijOfz1wZSF

[Morshed Mannan| মোর্শেদ মান্নান @MannanMorshed]

Definitely deserves more than a repost or QT. Congratulations and I can't wait to read the book!

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

No engagement on this post at all.

On Bluesky, I had loads of comments, and reposts.

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

Watch as I publish a book that is personal and political, dealing with a particular and universal wrong that the vast majority of the people of the world experience.

Watch as it gets resoundingly ignored by the mainstream media.

Dropping May 2026.

https://t.co/2cfzhc6UKZ

[Matthew Cole @MattColeWorks]

Watch as I publish a book that is personal and political, dealing with a particular and universal wrong that the vast majority of the people of the world experience.

Watch as it gets resoundingly ignored by the mainstream media.

Dropping May 2026.

https://t.co/2cfzhc6UKZ

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

This is getting increasingly bizarre.

[Riley @raaleh]

sorry @ZackPolanski but if you want to make this a fairer society with broadly shared prosperity you must waste your time being condescended to by Britain’s most tedious YouTubers about why that’s neither desirable nor possible

[Alex Niven @Alex_Niven]

Taking a single journal article by a history PhD student and its finding that 10% of people in C19 Ancoats were middle class, then using this to say that Engels was ‘taking liberties’ in a headline on the fifth article on the Guardian homepage … those are some real real moves