A reflection on the experience of the left within the Labour Party from 2015, describing the dominant strategies, the actors that pursued them, and how they developed over the course of the Corbyn leadership
Impact sourcing is the practice of employing socio-economically disadvantaged individuals at business process outsourcing centres to reduce poverty and create secure jobs.
For migrant workers who do not have access to other means of income, the platform economy offers a viable yet exploitative alternative to the conventional labour market.
The Economic and Labour Relations Review · 34(4), 667–688 · 21 November 2023
In placing an injunction on striking security guards at Great Ormond Street Hospital, a court has made standard picketing practices illegal. We must resist this fundamental attack on the right to strike — it’s part of a Tory slide to authoritarianism.
For the last ten nights, delivery drivers in Sheffield have been picketing McDonald's branches over a Christmas pay cut — the longest strike to ever hit the UK gig economy.
Angry food delivery workers in São Paulo are at the heart of new intra-continental solidarity networks in Latin America. But despite pulling off one of the biggest ever strikes against platform capitalism, familiar barriers to organising still need to be overcome.
This article discusses the Fast Food Shutdown, a strike on 4 October 2018 that involved Wetherspoon, McDonald’s, TGI Fridays and UberEats workers in the United Kingdom.
Capital & Class · 44(4), 513–521 · 20 February 2020