The dirty tricks of the Shrewsbury trials expose the dark heart of the radical 1970s - Paul Mason Article by economist Paul Mason about the 1972 UK builders' strike that led to the…
Building a community: construction workers in Stevenage 1950-1970 Interesting pamphlet about the workers who built the new town of Stevenage, commissioned by the…
Battles on the Barbican: the struggle for trade unionism in the British building industry, 1965–7 - Charlie McGuire, Linda Clarke and Christine Wall History of the industrial disputes and workers' struggles on the Barbican…
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.
