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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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
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Key words: Degrowth
Filka Sekulova explains one of the concepts at the heart of climate and social justice activism
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Unofficial unionising: an interview with Wilf Sullivan
The former Trades Union Congress race equality officer reflects on decades of black workers’ organising within unions