Economics, unions and work
As privatisation, globalisation and tech capitalism generate new forms of exploitation, we cover the failing economic status quo, the growth of alternatives and the voices of workers organising resistance
As privatisation, globalisation and tech capitalism generate new forms of exploitation, we cover the failing economic status quo, the growth of alternatives and the voices of workers organising resistance
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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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West Papua’s silent genocide
The brutal occupation of West Papua is under-reported – but UK and US corporations are profiting from the violence, write Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson
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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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Words without action: Seven takeaways from the Paris climate deal
The Paris Agreement on climate change has been hailed as a ‘turning point for the world’. But it is long on rhetoric and short on real commitments, finds Oscar Reyes
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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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How Japanese workers are fighting against karoshi
Scott North looks at the history of the anti-karoshi movement in Japan and its struggle against death and injury from overworking
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