My life as a security guard - Oppressors gain at expense of the oppressed Mashumi ‘Lindela’ Figlan, a South African security guard, writes about his working life, the bosses and unions and conditions in the industry.
Sometimes We Don't Even Get to the Point of Winning or Losing... Reading The American Worker and old Italian operaismo surveys of auto workers, it occurred to me…
A Public Nuisance - Tales of adventure and a spirit of revolt: Glasgow Anarchists 1974-1986 Notes on the activities and organisations of anarchists in the Glasgow and Clydeside area in the 1970s and 1980s.
A “zero-hours” contract… for thousands and thousands of hours Jack Staunton writes on his work in a call centre compiling government market research surveys.
Workers' report: general conditions and the conditions for generalisation at Hackney Street Cleansing Department A report about working life in refuse collection, recycling and street cleaning…
Gee, Charlie - A working class hero Charlie looks back at his youthful experiences as a militant hippy factory worker and shop steward in 1970s & 80s northern England. Part 2 deals…
Progressive Pretensions "Kwazee Wabbitt" recounts and compares climbing the career ladder at a "progressive" firm to being part of a Leninist sect.
Attack is the Only Way Forward. The struggle of the GGB (Healthworkers Syndicate) Hannover at the Wahrendorff Clinic An account of workplace organising in a privately run hospital in Germany in 2007.
Berlin 2006: The long road Organizing the unemployed can be as strenuous as trying to repel the Labour Exchange's impudences An account of welfare claimants' collective organising for their rights in Germany.
Small scale anarchist class struggle in Amsterdam's restaurants A detailed account of two "direct action casework" campaigns around unpaid wages in the Raffle's Grand Café and Phuket Thai restaurants in Amsterdam.
Schorndorf 1991: A Successful Temp Workers' Strike The FAU was founded as a union for all wage-workers and therefore also for temporary workers. In March of 1991 a spontaneous and successful strike was launched by temp workers at the Bauknecht Company in the small swabian city of Schorndorf.
Dare to be a Daniel! - Wilf McCartney Wilf McCartney (1877-1949) was a catering worker from the age of ten. Here he gives a vivid description of the conditions in the kitchens of…
