Twenty Years of the National Minimum Wage
Bloody Capitalism: Mean Wages Constantly Cut in Iowa's Meatpacking Industry
Guardian report exposes Amazon wage increase as public relations fraud
Care Workers and the Sleep-in Crisis at Tipping Point
Is an over-supply of labour depressing wages?
Are trade union bureaucrats correct in saying Marx believed an over-supply of labour depresses wages? We take a look at what Marx called "the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation" to discover if this is true.
Skint 1.5 Smashed Avo
The smashed avo has become symbolic of a standard of living: the bundle of commodities that form the historically necessary level for the reproduction of a large swathe of the working class in the last 10 or 20 years, and which increasingly seems untenable in the future. Moralising about the spending choices of the young is thus part of a disciplinary manoeuvre aimed at increasing the acceptance for a lower standard of living: whether that lowering of standards of living happens through the apparently neutral processes of the capitalist mode of production, or from direct attacks from capitalists.