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In addition to the political and economic changes that brought about the new economy, there were new ways of talking about risk. These new ways of discussing risk led to new ways in which people managed, dealt with, and expressed risk. And, as we’ll see in this chapter, these ways of dealing with r…

I must admit that there is very little time for the higher life for myself, but my soul cries out for it, and my heart is not in my homely duties; they are done in a mechanical, abstracted way, not worthy of a woman of high ambitions; but my ambitions are along other lines.

I do not mean to say …

From the late 19th century onwards, Britain’s ruling class benefited from the rising productivity in the factories, imperialist domination in the colonies, a gendered division of labour in the home, and the relentless exploitation of cheap natural resources everywhere. These combined to facilitate …

If there is something poetic in these kinds of organising, it is poetry of the kind that Tom Leonard says most people do not think of as poetry: about politics, employment, what people do with their time. It goes far beyond what is considered the normal way of organising in the hospitality industry…

We didn’t go through legalistic routes with our action - it was a wildcat strike. Our walkout lasted less than an hour. But it took place on a Friday evening, so it went from maybe 200 people in the bar, over two floors, to the place being cleared because people weren’t being served for about 45 mi…