Economics, unions and work
Red Pepper covers both the failing economic status quo and the growth of alternatives the section on economics, unions and work.
While exploring how privatisation, globalisation, the gig economy, and changes to working life after Covid-19 have generated new forms of exploitation, we also hear from workers organising and fighting back both in and beyond trade unions.
Red Pepper covers both the failing economic status quo and the growth of alternatives the section on economics, unions and work.
While exploring how privatisation, globalisation, the gig economy, and changes to working life after Covid-19 have generated new forms of exploitation, we also hear from workers organising and fighting back both in and beyond trade unions.
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Worker-led transition is essential climate action
Organised labour is central to successful decarbonisation and averting catastrophic climate breakdown, write Jake Woodier and Hilary Wainwright
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Hard truths in Brazil’s Lithium Valley
Inhabitants of regions like Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley are confronting the global forces turning their lands into sacrifice zones for the ‘green transition’. By Alex Shankland, Anabel Marín, Bruna Viana De Freitas and Fabiana Soares Leme
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Transition troubles at the coalface
Forty years on from the miners’ strike, Britain’s transition away from coal highlights the complex challenges of decarbonisation, write Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson
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Big Tech: A new platform for global capitalism
Over the past 30 years, tech companies have become leading institutions of global capitalism. They give a new face to old challenges – and new potential for mass resistance, writes Jeremy Gilbert
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Shattered Nation – review
Dorling’s book offers a damning portrait of a crumbling Britain, writes Phil O’Sullivan
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Minimum service levels, minimum prospects
Adrian Weir examines Labour’s lackluster response to the Tories’ attack on workers, and how unions are striking back
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Key words: Austerity
Níall Glynn explains the true function of an economic policy agenda that bolsters capitalism and devastates the working class