health and medicine

Protest of Hospital Sanitary Workers in Starachowice

Workers protest against outsourcing of jobs.

Miners to join South African public sector strike

Miners in South Africa plan to join the massive public sector strike that has already crippled the the government in recent weeks.

South Africa: over a million public sector workers on strike

More than one million South African state workers have gone on strike to press for an increase in…

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.

Kid Gloves or Bare-Knuckles The Experiences of the FAU-Hannover in Public Sector Strikes, 2005

A detailed account of organizing, radicalizing and participating in a strike at a public health institution, against the context of national negotiations over new pay and conditions for public sector workers.

Is depression an adaptation?

Biologist Jerry Coyne tackles the assumptions of 'evolutionary psychiatry' in his commentary on the supposed adaptive nature of depression.

Derailment From The Fast Track

tale of toil by madame curie

An Uninsured Tail

patient tale by willie the rat

Blood, Sweat & Soap

tale of toil by jay clemens

Work Sickness at the Health Factory

tale of toil by summer brenner

The Health Epidemic

article by lucius cabins & louis michaelson

NHS executive pay rises double nurses'

Top managers in England's NHS trusts received average pay rises of nearly 7% in 2008-09, compared with less than 3% granted to nurses.