Economics, unions and work
Red Pepper covers both the failing economic status quo and the growth of alternatives the section on economics, unions and work.
While exploring how privatisation, globalisation, the gig economy, and changes to working life after Covid-19 have generated new forms of exploitation, we also hear from workers organising and fighting back both in and beyond trade unions.
Red Pepper covers both the failing economic status quo and the growth of alternatives the section on economics, unions and work.
While exploring how privatisation, globalisation, the gig economy, and changes to working life after Covid-19 have generated new forms of exploitation, we also hear from workers organising and fighting back both in and beyond trade unions.
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Burning witches and banning abortions made capitalism possible
Our economic system depends on a long and bloody history of controlling women’s bodies, writes Eleanor Penny.
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A mad world: capitalism and the rise of mental illness
What if it’s not us who are sick, asks Rod Tweedy, but a system at odds with who we are as social beings?
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‘Faster, faster, faster’: The diary of a hotel cleaner
In the opening post of a new blog project, the anonymous ‘Maid in London’ describes her first day cleaning a luxury London hotel
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The myth of the 1970s
In the 1970s, they say, the dead lay unburied, greedy unions held the country to ransom and a divided country was impossible to govern, John Medhurst asks: was it really so bad?
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Stagnation and securitisation: Understanding the 2008 financial crisis
Jack Copley provides an introduction to An Angry Person’s Guide to Finance — a free Red Pepper pamphlet
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How to know if you’ve been blacklisted and what you can do
Solicitor David Sorensen explains what the blacklisting scandal could mean to you.
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Thatcher didn’t save the economy, she wrecked it
Alex Nunns argues that the right’s celebrations of Margaret Thatcher’s economic record are an attempt to rewrite history
