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Analysis: A Regime of ‘Flexible Despotism’ Reigns Over Retail Work – Can It Last?

Alex Wood

Ever had to beg your boss for suitable shifts? Alex Wood explains how 'flexible discipline' - whereby managers discipline workers by altering their schedule - has become prevalent in retail work, and how it may yet fuel workers' sense of injustice.

Opinion: The Right to Work From Home Should Be a Demand Far Beyond the Pandemic

James McAsh

Once preserved as a perk of high-status jobs, for many workers the dubious obstacles to being permitted to work from home have evaporated during lockdown. On National Work from Home Day, James McAsh argues it ought to be a right, not a privilege - and not just for the duration of the pandemic.

Novara FM: 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

Government spin would have you believe the world of work is looking rosier than ever - were it not for the fact that it defines our actual daily existence. In a new column, James Meadway - former economics editor to John McDonnell - argues a four-day week could be the solution we've been desiring all along.

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