workplace activity
Articles, interviews and accounts about organising at work, problems people have come up against and lessons they have learned.
35 Hour Week: Lower Incomes and More Work
Wildcat-Zirkular No. 48/49 - March 1999 - pp. (german edition) 41-55
35 Hour Week: Lower Incomes and More Work
Working Time Reduction in Germany
Wildcat (Germany)
Working Time Reduction in Germany
Wildcat No. 33 - September 1984
This is a draft translation, not corrected, but it might be useful for readers in the UK or US because today there are new discussions about working time reduction. The German experience might prevent some illusions often connected with this kind of union politics.
Working Time Reduction in Germany
Demystifying the glorious 35-hour-week, which started in 1984
"We've never got as wet before as with that strike."
(A worker at Kühler-Behr, a factory in South-Germany)
"The IGM has won the battle ideologically, we have won it economically."
(A manager after the contract was signed)
Wildcats In The Appalachian Coal Fields -William Cleaver
A little blow-out don't hurt nothin'.
A coal miner ain't nobody until he goes on strike,
then everybody's looking at him.
Wildcats In The Appalachian Coal Fields
William Cleaver
Faceless Resistance - Everyday resistance at a Swedish bakery
Tales of work and struggle in a large Swedish bakery under threat from closure.
For almost two years I was employed at a bakery in southern Sweden, together with about 160 others; bakers, cleaners and mechanics included. From the first day of work, I was told that the bakery was under the threat to be closed down, and, indeed, with time, we got dismissed and the bakery shut down.
