Working Class Decomposition and Gig Economy Work
Submitted by Hieronymous on Jun 9 2019 01:27
On 8 May 2019 around 300 protesters, mostly Uber and Lyft drivers, blocked Market Street in San Francisco in front of Uber's international headquarters as part of a global strike by drivers timed to coincide with Uber's IPO. This brief analysis attempts to situate these struggles against working class decomposition, with its roots in neoliberal deregulation, and the rise of so-called "gig economy" work.
Brazil: How things have (and haven't) changed
Submitted by Baderneiro Miseravel on May 9 2019 12:46
From the management of June 2013 uprising to Bolsonaro’s ordered revolt.
Brazil: popular revolt and its limits
June 2018 marks five years since the wave of protests against the price of collective transportation, which shook the streets of hundreds of brazilian cities in 2013. At the heart of those riots was the Movimento Passe Livre (something like Free Pass Movement), an autonomous and horizontal social movement founded in 2005, which defended the gratuity of transport. Written in 2014 by two militants who later left the organization, this article reflects on the limits of that cycle of protests.
A serious public transport strike in the Netherlands
Submitted by rooieravotr on Jul 1 2018 17:33
There is some serious strike action going on in the Netherlands in regional public transport. This is like a breath of fresh air in a country where the Right is on the rampage and workers' struggles have been quite subdued for much too long.
Racial discrimination in employment? The Bristol bus boycott of 1963
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 11 2017 11:49
A student dissertation with lots of information about the 1963 boycott of Bristol's buses against the ban on recruiting workers of colour enforced by the TGWU union and the state-owned Bristol Omnibus Company.
Black and white on the buses: the 1963 colour bar dispute in Bristol
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 11 2017 10:17
A detailed pamphlet by Madge Dresser on the Bristol bus boycott, when a mass campaign defeated the TGWU union's bar on black and Asian people working in bus crews.
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.
Lyft: strikes and blockades
Submitted by libcom on Jun 22 2017 15:35
A lot of discussion around Lyft Shuttle derides it for doing little more than reinvent the city bus. What this forgets, however, is that transit and distribution are the last remaining sectors in the US that are really vulnerable to strikes.
1959: Fiji Oil Workers Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 2 2017 23:15
The strike of 1959 was the first time a multi ethnic workforce struck together, and the response was martial law from the government and betrayal by tribal elders.
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