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People come to hospitality work from a range of social origins and vastly different levels of opportunity, and this often shapes the trajectories taken by hospitality workers. While this can fragment class unity in economic terms, it can also produce novel political alliances cutting across many ot…

It is important that we understand what is at stake with hospitality worker organising. Hospitality covers a range of different labour processes. At the core, hospitality work is not that different to the industrial work that it is increasingly displacing. Taking the beans out of the can is not so …

What I learned from all this was, despite shitty contracts, it really comes down to how organized you are on the job. I didn’t even read a contract till 2022, honestly. You looked around, sized people up, and if those fools were down, and we were savvy about it, we could push things further. That i…

That was my first big construction job ever. I didn’t even know that when huge excavators swing, they got a counterweight that’s wider than the tracks. So these guys would grab me and be like, “Yo, motherfucker,” when this thing would swing around. I came off a fucking ranch into that. I didn’t thi…

In 1909, the socialist publisher Charles Kerr published Connolly’s powerful, closely argued pamphlet Socialism Made Easy, which combined propaganda for the socialist cause with a call for Industrial Unionism as the way forward. He insisted that “it is not the theorists who make history; it is histo…