Skip To Main Content
Ben Dangl on Muck Rack

Ben Dangl

Verified
United States
As seen in: Toward Freedom, VICE, teleSUR, AlterNet, CounterPunch, Roar, upsidedownworld.org, Young Muslim Digest
Researcher on Latin America | Senior Lecturer at University of Vermont | Author of forthcoming book on movement media in Latin America w/ @UNC_Press
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Ben

Contact Ben, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

When wage becomes wager: the dark side of microwork sites

|
By Phil Jones, William Anderson, Ben Dangl Verified
| Roar Verified
This is an excerpt from Phil Jones Work Without the Worker, out now from Verso Books. What if work meant play and working hard meant hardly working at all? This is the promise made by platforms such as Playment and Clickworker. Adorned with images of hip, young people relaxing on sofas idly browsing laptops, their sites suggest that if work still exists in our brave new economy, it is no less fun than playing a videogame or shopping for clothes.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

On rituals and revolutions in the mines of Bolivia

|
By Ben Dangl Verified, Phil Jones, Elias König
| Roar Verified
Musician wearing a miner’s hat during the Carnival of Oruro in Bolivia’s tin mining center. Photo: sunsinger / Shutterstock.com The small K’illi K’illi park sits at the top of one of the hillsides cradling the valley that is home to Bolivia’s administrative capital La Paz, providing a striking view of the city below. To the east lies Illimani, a towering, snow-covered mountain.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Fridays for Sabotage? The strange fascination of climate Blanquism

|
By Elias König, Ben Dangl Verified, Thomas McGath
| Roar Verified
Photo: Protesters block a rail line in Seattle in solidarity with the Wetʼsuwetʼen nation’s resistance against the Coastal GasLink pipeline. February 16, 2020. Joseph Gruber / Shutterstock.com What an uncanny time to be alive! In broad daylight, we are witnessing the organized slaughter of an entire ecosphere. Not a day passes without news of yet another wildfire or typhoon rampaging, another irreversible tipping point being reached, another world ending somewhere.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 201 licensed articles (204 Total)