Tag: work
Work All Day, Work All Night: ‘Sacrificing Your Life’ for the Food Supply Chain
Workers in the food supply chain call it ‘sacrificing your life’ to feed the rest of us. Can it last? Sophie K Rosa, Craig Gent and James Butler find out.
A Regime of ‘Flexible Despotism’ Reigns Over Retail Work – Can It Last?
Alex Wood
12 Books for Understanding the Future of Work
Sarah Jaffe, Dalia Gebrial, Jamie Woodcock & Craig Gent
‘Capitalism’s Wet Dream’: Amazon’s Patents Signal the Future It Hopes to Achieve
Alessandro Delfanti
Big Business Is Muscling in on the UK’s Nursery Racket
Sophie K Rosa
The ‘radical nannies’ Organising to Support Each Other Through Covid-19
Veronica Deutsch
Detained Migrants Are Workers. They Belong in the Trade Union Movement
Isaac Ricca-Richardson and Franck Magennis
Filth: Coronavirus Has Shown That Cleaners Are Essential, but Labelling Them ‘Low-Skilled’ Legitimises Exploitation
Eleanor Penny
The Right to Work From Home Should Be a Demand Far Beyond the Pandemic
James McAsh
Freelance Work Has Always Been Precarious, Not Aspirational. Coronavirus Has Made That Clear
Sophie McKay
The Corona-Crisis Reveals There Is No Such Thing As Low-Skilled Labour
Phil Jones
The Employability Industry: How Platforms Profit From ‘Brand You’
Phil Jones
To Tackle Climate Breakdown, We Need to Build a Post-Work Society
Emilie Tricarico
The All-Seeing Algorithm?
James Butler is joined by Novara Media’s own Craig Gent to discuss the rise of the algorithm, the new workplace under algorithmic management, and the scope and practice of workers’ resistance to new techniques of domination.
After Work?
James Butler is joined by Will Stronge, director of the think tank Autonomy, to discuss the future of work.
‘Work Sucks, I Know’: It’s Time We Moved to a Four-Day Week
James Meadway
A Lot of People Don’t Want to Win | James Butler Meets David Graeber
At The World transformed 2018 James Butler met with David Graeber to talk Momentum,dual power, co-option, the extra-parliamentary left and winning.