Building the Barbican 1962-1982: taking the industry out of the dark ages Fantastic pamphlet on the workers' struggles during the construction of the brutalist masterpiece…
Reflecting on injury and stolen wages at work - Megan Kinch An account by Megan Kinch about working in the non-union construction industry in Toronto.
Talking to architects - Colin Ward Ten lectures delivered to professional audiences by Colin Ward gathered over a period of 20 years. The talks explore trends and concepts within…
Building the infrastructure state: plans, anti-politics and sullen refusal The text of my paper that I presented at Historical Materialism Australasia 2014. I haven’t had much…
Solidarity Federation wins unpaid wages in Newcastle Just in time for May Day, another pay packet win for SolFed - this time it's Newcastle Local's turn.
Roads to nowhere: capital's plan A (in Australia) An analysis of capital's attempt to build a way out of the end of the mining boom via massive infrastructure construction
All in a day’s work: life and labor in the day labor industry An article by Everett Martinez about the day labor industry in the construction trades.
The Lump: an heretical analysis - Dave Lamb 1974 pamphlet by Solidarity criticising the standard left and union response to "the lump": the paying of building workers by lump sums for a job…
Solidarity for workers' full control #06 Issue of South London Solidarity from 21 September, 1969, with articles about struggles in construction engineering at Kingsnorth, Northfleet, Fawley and more.
Workers building Samsung factory riot in Vietnam Thousands of construction workers building a Samsung's factory in Vietnam's northern Thai Nguyen province clashed with security guards on…
Meet my mates, the bastards Fancy a challenge? Try keeping your politics intact whilst working with ordinary, apolitical workmates to build an unofficial union. Apolitical…
The common struggle: the firefighters show the way! Following the first fire brigade strike of 2013 over proposed pension changes, a short look at how injury and incapacity unites all manual…
