Activity

A picture of a bleeding hand comes up. This doesn’t look good, says Sandy, not turning round to the screen. This is an employee’s hand. He was working on the conveyor belt. When the belt stopped he put his hand inside the mechanism to adjust the slipped belt. The belt started moving again. There wa…

You’d like to contradict him, incidentally, and say: I, who am also a customer of this company, would be glad to sit more comfortably here. And I think the company could afford to provide us with more comfortable seats without having to raise prices for the customer.

You don’t say that, though, …

So now you’re on your way to a training day at Amazon which you won’t be paid for taking part in. Of course you ought to be paid for taking part in the training day. There’s a quiet complaint to be heard inside you as you approach the company premises, but there’s no one there to listen to you, or …

We must focus on shifting the balance of power in society away from capital and towards labour by expanding state, community and worker ownership. This is not simply a moral or political statement: it is a statement of necessity. Without a plan to socialise wealth, the economic contradictions of th…

Piketty’s wealth tax is a prime example of “solutionism”: a proposal intended to solve all of the world’s problems through tweaks to the current institutional architecture. He pays little attention to power, to politics, or any other drivers of change. The same can be said for a lot of other radica…