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Articles on strikes, platform work and the labour movement

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A critical examination of the state of the British hospitality industry, exploring its profound challenges and systemic issues.
Notes from Below · 21 August 2024
2024
W-18
The razor-thin margin of defeat at a Coventry warehouse shows the global pressure for recognition is reaching a tipping point.
The Guardian · 23 July 2024
2024
W-17
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
Notes from Below · 28 December 2023
2023
W-16
Impact sourcing is the practice of employing socio-economically disadvantaged individuals at business process outsourcing centres to reduce poverty and create secure jobs.
AI & Society · 40(2), 529–543 · 20 December 2023
2023
W-15
Why is the UK establishment so much more hostile to gig economy rights than other parts of Europe?
The Guardian · 23 November 2023
2023
W-14
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
2023
W-13
On workers' power across the food distribution industry
Notes from Below · 21 September 2023
2023
W-12
New data on the wildcat action at Amazon
Notes from Below · 22 August 2022
2022
W-11
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.
Novara Media · 16 February 2022
2022
W-10
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.
Novara Media · 16 December 2021
2021
W-09
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.
Novara Media · 3 October 2020
2020
W-08
As online retail booms, distribution centres are hiring – and the workers they depend on could organise for a better deal.
The Guardian · 3 September 2020
2020
W-07
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
2020
W-06
You can cut all the flowers, but you can’t stop spring from coming
Notes from Below · 18 December 2019
2019
W-05
Royal Mail workers are creating a wave of unofficial strike action.
Vice · 22 November 2018
2018
W-04
Combined walk outs have shown it’s possible to fight back against bosses even in the most difficult of circumstances.
Vice · 12 October 2018
2018
W-03
How community syndicalism is building the base for a mass socialist movement
Notes from Below · 16 August 2018
2018
W-02
Workers strike against unsafe conditions at an East London recycling plant
Notes from Below · 29 March 2018
2018
W-01
Has a wave of conflict between food platform workers and bosses spread across Europe?
Notes from Below · 29 January 2018
2018
Students hold a hand-painted banner reading STUDENTS SUPPORT STAFF STRIKES beneath a forest of UCU No Job Cuts! Save our campus! placards, a phone raised to film them.
S-02.07
University of Essex, Southend-on-Sea
5 December 2025