Service work
Deindustrialisation has pushed millions of people into low wage, low productivity work in the service sector. These workers are increasingly becoming recomposed in larger, more concentrated nodes — from pub complexes to cathedral-like warehouses.
The capacity of this new service class to organise is the key determining factor that will define if and how workers reassert themselves politically in the deindustrialised global core over the decades to come.
PhD Thesis
Cant C (2020) “We are a service class”: a workers’ inquiry into the class composition of service commodity production during the unreal interregnum. University of West London, London. Available at: https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/7785/.
Journal articles and book chapters
Cant C and Woodcock J (2020) Fast Food Shutdown: From disorganisation to action in the service sector. Capital & Class 44(4). DOI: 10.1177/0309816820906357.
Woodcock J and Cant C (2023) Platforms, Resistance, Organising. In: Smith P, Monea A, and Santiago M (eds) Amazon: At the Intersection of Culture and Capital. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 149–163.
Popular Writing
Cant C (2022) Mapping the Amazon Strikes. Available at: https://notesfrombelow.org/article/mapping-amazon-strikes
