Explainers: Four Day Working Week
The robots are coming for your jobs – and that’s a good thing. Eleanor Penny responds to the TUC’s call for a four day working week.
Tag: work
Who Wants to Build a Left-wing Private Equity Firm?
Dani McDonald and Ben Tippet
In light of John McDonnell's recent economic proposal, Dani McDonald and Ben Tippet make the case for building a greater worker democracy through transforming businesses into worker-owned cooperatives.
The Chilling Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
RJ Quinn
Increasing use of artificial intelligence in the workplace is forcing people to police themselves more than ever, argues RJ Quinn.
3 Ways We Must Rethink Mental Health in the Workplace
Luke Dukinfield
Tuesday was World Mental Health Day, and this year’s theme was ‘mental health in the workplace’. But while we've seen much chat of ‘talking about it’ and ‘breaking the taboo’, the relationship between work and mental health itself is rarely called into question.
The Soapbox: All Women Are Workers
Eleanor Penny brings you “The Soapbox” We usually think that work means employment in the formal economy. But domestic labour – done mostly by women, and mostly for free – is the most fundamental kind of work there is.
Long Read: How Platform Cooperativism Can Unleash The Network
Trebor Scholz
Trebor Schulz argues that we need to re-imagine the way we organise work and ownership in high-tech industries.
Long Read: Labouring Through Birth and Death
Jenny Nelson
Birth and death both demand complex, intensive care work; of the sort dismissed by capitalism and silenced by societal taboos. In this week's Long Read, Jenny Nelson explores the labour of the beginning and end of life.
Novara Docs: Back on the Line: Remembering Grunwick 40 Years On
40 years later, workers, writers and politicians remember the historic 2 year strike led primarily by South-Asian film processing workers at the Grunwick Lab in Dollis Hill, North-west London. How did Grunwick pave the way for further suppression of trade unions and independent worker organisation?
‘We make their profits’ – Deliveroo Workers on Strike
Deliveroo workers have been on strike demanding better pay and conditions, Aaron Bastani went along to a recent protest to see how they've been organising.
Long Read: Campesinos Against Climate Change: The Fight for Economic Justice in Colombia
Milo Phillips
In the second of our features on social justice movements in Colombia, Milo Phillips reports on how climate change and neoliberal economic reforms have endangered the livelihoods of farmers - and how they are fighting back.
IMOBastani: #CleanForTheQueen – Who Really Cleans for the Queen?
As Britain's top toffs line up for smug photo opportunities as part of Clean For The Queen Aaron Bastani asks: Who really cleans for the Queen?
Novara FM: Inventing the Future
This week Aaron Bastani is joined by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, co-editors of "Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a world without work"
IMOBastani: Why Is London Getting Bigger?
On this edition of IMO, Aaron explains why London's population is set to reach an all-time high this decade.
Mental Health Under Neoliberalism – 5 Ways Work Drives Us Crazy
Eleanor Penny
Mental Health Week on NovaraWire: "Working nine to five... It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it," sang Dolly Parton in 1980. Work is a common cause of stress, but with work seeming increasingly ubiquitous and demanding could it now be that work is stress?
4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time
Nick Srnicek
What does automation mean for the future of employment? Some fear it will cast us to the scrapheap while the automated economy grinds on; others argue technological developments have always created new jobs. But could it ever mean something different entirely?
IMOBastani: Why Is Britain A Post-Industrial Economy?
Aaron Bastani explains how Britain changed from a manufacturing economy to a service-dominated economy.
IMOBastani: Why We Need To Scrap Tuition Fees
Aaron Bastani gives 4 reasons for #FreeEducation.
IMOBastani: Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Aaron Bastani explains 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism', a post-capitalist utopia.