Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City
An essay written in 2018 and updated in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York and prior to the June 2020 uprisings. Explores the death of a woman named 'Kathy' through the eyes of a frontline social worker. Originally published on the website of Hard Crackers.
Summer of strikes: low-paid workers to strike at seven different locations across London
Submitted by R Totale on Jul 31 2019 16:33
Capitalism's New Economy: The Value of Capitalist Services
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 19 2019 11:35
This second article in our series examines what is meant by ‘services’ and their apparently key role in the richest capitalist states where moving away from production of commodities is regarded as essential to economic advancement. Indeed, despite the setback of the 2007/8 financial crash, World Bank figures show that ‘services’ represent a higher proportion of GDP for the world economy as a whole. For the UK 77.4% of GDP was attributed to ‘services’ in 2018.
The Black Ball - Ralph Ellison
A short story about an attempt to build an integrated union in the American south. Contains racial slurs, and references to racial motivated assault and sexual assault, among other issues.
Case Con: A Revolutionary Magazine for Social Workers
Most issues of Case Con: A Revolutionary Magazine for Social Workers from the 1970s. Most issues are complete and readable. A handful of the scans are not complete and clear.
The state takes advantage of the lack of autonomous workers struggles to revise the terms of capitalist exploitation in France - leaflet by Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu
A leaflet about the recent "Executive Orders" signed by French President Emmanuel Macron which aim to "modernise" the labour laws.
Do solidarity unions need to ‘go public’?
Marianne Garneau and MK Lees reexamine the value of the "Going Public" step in solidarity union organizing drives.
An “entirely different” kind of union: the Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), 1972–1986 – Julia Smith
Submitted by RobynK on Sep 1 2017 09:57
An in depth article which examines the Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), an independent, grassroots, socialist-feminist union that existed from 1972 to 1986. They organised workers in marginalised, low-paying, largely female-dominated sectors that weren’t high priorities for the much larger business unions.
This article was published in the Canadian academic journal Labour/Le Travail, vol. 73, in 2014.
Sabotage in the American workplace: anecdotes of dissatisfaction, mischief and revenge
Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 21 2017 18:18
A truly fantastic study of everyday employee resistance at work. First person accounts of sabotage, beautifully illustrated and intermingled with related news clippings, facts and quotes.
A more perfect victim
An account of a former office temp getting revenge on a CEO.
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