Trade unions and global restructuring

On their own, Lorenzo Feltrin is clear, workplace struggles and community-centred organising are too week to challenge capitalist exploitati...

In my latest open access article Confronting Multiple Global Crises: a political economy approach for the 21 st century , published in the j...

In his major, two-volume publication Exiting the Factory: Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector (Bristol University Pres...

How can working class gains obtained in struggle from employers be secured more permanently? How can capitalism be challenged successfully o...

Against a back-ground of global economic crisis and heightened geo-political confron-tations, the inter-national labour movement has remaine...

In this guest post Sarrah Kassem outlines key arguments of her recent book Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Powe...

Capital has identified water as an important opportunity for profitable investment. Whether it is the privatisation of public water infrastr...

Just over four years ago, Adam D. Morton and I published our book Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (CUP, 2018). In this book, ...

On 3 September, about 100 local activists met in Nottingham/UK to discuss how to best organize in view of increasing injustices and global c...

Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experi...

Trade unions have the task to organise collectively and establish relations of solidarity amongst working people. And yet, they have often f...

In their powerful book The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism (Verso, 2021), Ulrich Brand and M...

There is widespread pessimism about workers’ potential to take successful industrial action in the UK today. Structural transformation from ...

Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, we have experienced widespr...

In Rethinking Global Labour (Agenda Publishing, 2018), Ronaldo Munck has produced an important contribution to ongoing analyses of the p...

The conjuncture between the thirtieth anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR is an apt occasion ...

The global economy is yet again under severe pressure. While it was the global financial market crisis, which shook the global economy to...

Verity Burgmann has produced an excellent, broad coverage of different instances of resistance by labour movements from around the worl...

Photo by gaby_bra From 3 to 10 December, I visited Sao Paulo/Brazil for several lectures and also had the opportunity to speak to repre...

Photo by Karlis Dambrans Humanity is currently faced with a number of deep and challenging crises: economic, social, political, over fo...