Posts tagged: labour

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  Reflections on the UCU Strike

  The strike has the capacity to enlarge collectivism and deepen critical thinking, but it has also revealed that striking in an academic context is far from straightforward. 

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  Striking in the #MeToo Moment

  Sarah Jaffe speaks with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya about the International Women's Strike.

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  Mapping Social Reproduction Theory

  Tithi Bhattacharya offers an introduction to the methods, insights, and strategic implications of Social Reproduction Theory. 

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  Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work

  Kathi Weeks draws on 1970s feminist critiques of romance to investigate the contemporary management discourses of love and happiness at work. 

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  Fee Strike?

  A brief attempt to think critically about the potential of a student "fee strike" to run alongside the University and College Union strike.

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  "The Freedom to Hit on Women": an Ode to Neoliberal Ideology

  Françoise Vergès responds to the "appeal of the 100" published in Le Monde.

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  Belonging on the Left: An Appreciation of Stanley Aronowitz

  Bruce Robbins on Stanley Aronowitz as a public intellectual. 

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  “I Wanted to See for Myself the First Land of Socialism”: Black American Women and the Russian Revolution

  The promse of 1917 allowed African American women to assert themselves as an integral part of a global movement to end racism, sexism, and imperialism.

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  Communication from Moshé Machover to the legal queries unit

  Moshé Machover responds to the Labour Party over his expulsion. 

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  Audio: Aaron Benanav — Automation and the Future of Work

  Aaron Benanav discusses the real reasons behind the rise of a global precarious workforce. 

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  Feminism and the Refusal of Work: An Interview with Kathi Weeks

  To confront this changing landscape of work, we need today to draw on Marxist feminist analyses of gendered forms of both waged and unwaged work. The practical implication of this is that, if we want to both understand and resist contemporary forms of exploitation, Marxists can no longer remain ignorant of or separated from feminist theories and practices. 

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  U.S. Workers in the Late Neoliberal Era: The Pressures, the Changes, the Potential

  Kim Moody on the state of organized labor, the potential for collaboration between unionized workers and grassroots social movements, and the prospects for the revival of the political strike after the logistics revolution and the election of Trump.