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Men stand with a banner that reads ' Save our seafarers' and union flags

25 Mar 2022 5 minute read

Scottish ship workers stand defiant

A recent wave of mass redundancies from P&O ferries has triggered outrage. Conrad Landin reports from...

Launched in May 2020, the worker-members of ChiFresh Kitchen have been busy throughout the Covid-19 pandemic cooking up healthy, culturally appropriate food for their Chicago community. As well as providing emergency food aid, the co-op – which employs formerly incarcerated people – is also contracted to provide food for schools and social centres and makes several hundred meals a day. Credit: KAI BROWN

13 Dec 2021 6 minute read

The democratic workplace

In co-operatives, employees can take control of the business. Amy Hall explores the possibilities and...

Cueca dancers celebrate the indigenous Aymara culture of the Andes – but in modern garb – as a carnaval parade gets under way in Arica, Chile. JEFFREY ISAAC GREENBERG 20+/ALAMY

8 Dec 2021 7 minute read

Living well

Richard Swift on why we need to stop chasing the dream of full employment and focus on what really matters...

Economic migrants from rural areas at work on a construction site in Nairobi, Kenya. Such jobs are usually temporary, sometimes just a day’s labour. NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY/ALAMY

6 Dec 2021 12 minute read

The squeeze on workers

To ensure a fairer future we will need to tackle business as usual, says Dinyar Godrej.

30 Jun 2019 3 minute read

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What if... we worked less?

Aidan Harper makes the case for a new politics of time.

30 Apr 2019 6 minute read

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Holding platforms accountable to digital workers’ rights

There is an urgent need to improve the welfare and job quality of digital workers, write Mark Graham,...

28 Feb 2019 5 minute read

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Networked but commodified: digital labour in the remote gig economy

Research by Alex J. Wood, Mark Graham and others shows how gig economy platforms commodify...

7 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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Challenging exploitation in the gig economy

Global South workers in the digital platform-enabled gig economy are beginning to organize. Alex J. Wood...

29 Apr 2018 3 minute read

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Watch out McDonald’s, the ‘McStrike’ is coming

Twenty-year-old McDonald’s worker Annalise Peters warns that workers plan to hold the fast food giant...

20 Nov 2017 2 minute read

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The lives behind the label

Bangladesh’s garment workers make the clothes we wear every day. A collection of their intimate stories.

1 Jan 2017 3 minute read

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Letter from Cochabamba

Working children have more pressing concerns than the law, discovers Amy Booth.

13 Dec 2016 5 minute read

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The inextricable link between migration and sweatshops

The possibility of workers’ rights and climate justice movements responding together provides hope, writes Dalia...

13 Dec 2016 4 minute read

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Let’s make platform capitalism more accountable

What do Google, Uber, and Facebook have in common? Mark Graham asks.

6 Dec 2016 2 minute read

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Samsung can never see my face: story of a secret trade unionist

Samsung has a reputation for modern technology, but also a history of medieval conditions for its estimated 1.5 million...

24 Nov 2016 4 minute read

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Working for corporations, but failing workers and the planet

Ethical supply chain audits can enable business as usual under the veneer of corporate responsibility, write Genevieve...

11 Nov 2016 7 minute read

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Why are trade unions opposing worker self-management?

The Second Euromediterranean Workers’ Economy summit in Greece highlighted the rift in the global workers’ movement. ...

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