manufacturing and materials

Textile workers in Narsingdi, central Bangladesh, yesterday fought police in protests against irregular power supply to their factory workplaces.

History of how arms company workers struggled against closure and for a change in their work from weapons manufacture to socially useful…

An account of the powerful workers' movement in Scotland and the strike of 100,000 for a 40-hour…

Howard Zinn's account of American miners' struggles against the use of slave prison labour.

Following another worker's death, Ret Marut examines the conditions in China's factories.

After Thursday's clashes, in which revised figures tell of 200 injured and one worker dead, the strike continues and tension remains high in…

Howard Zinn's account of the lynching of the American revolutionary unionist and former soldier Wesley Everest by "patriots."

An account of a group of 153 sacked Cellatex chemical workers in France who won a massively improved redundancy deal due to militant struggle,…

An account of the 1990 strike in East London of mostly immigrant workers, which won several concessions for the workers and prevented the owner…

The history of a large strike of shipyard workers in Spain against closure. An important feature of this strike was not just the high level of…

The history of a victorious strike of 300 mostly female immigrant workers in an ultra-exploitative…

In June 1973 workers at the Broadmeadows Ford factory exploded smashing up their workplace, facing off police and forcing union bosses into…