Reflections on The lump by Dave Lamb - Dave Walton
A couple of decades on after the publication of the controversial Solidarity pamphlet on the lump (a way of casualising construction work), Dave Walton, a former construction worker looks back on it and the struggles of the time.
The lump: an heretical analysis - Dave Lamb
1974 pamphlet by Solidarity criticising the standard left and union response to "the lump": the paying of building workers by lump sums for a job instead of union rates on national terms and conditions. Deeply controversial at the time, it criticised the slogan "Defend the unions, smash the lump!" and pointed out that the building unions agreeing to enforce a government pay freeze in "national interest" bore much responsibility for the development.
Libertarian socialism - Dave Lamb
Dave Lamb looks at socialism as the resistance of workers to work and bureaucracy.