Letter from Fiat workers in Tychy The following is a letter sent from an underground group of workers in Fiat Poland in Tychy.
Sacked factory workers threaten to blow up plant Workers at French car parts manufacturer Sodimatex are threatening to destroy the factory unless they are given an improved redundancy package.
Labor discipline and the decline of the soviet system - Don Filtzer The issue of labor discipline lay at the very heart of the antagonistic relationship between the…
Parisian Metallurgists in May 1968 - Michael Seidman Michael Seidman shows how workers acted differently from the way they are usually portrayed in…
Workers' resistance and the demise of East Germany - Jeffrey Kopstein Jeffrey Kopstein argues how the everyday resistance of East German workers could wear down a…
Lose jobs now: ask me how! An account of casual work, sabotage and getting sacked in the service industry, by Zoe Noe.
Techy Wage increase attempt at Convergys in Gurgaon An account of an unsuccessful attempt of call centre workers in Gurgaon, India, to inflate their wages by forging positive feedback.
1889: The Glasgow dockers' go-slow A brief history of the strike of Glasgow dockers in 1889 which was proving fruitless, until they returned to work and began a go-slow or "working…
The stopwatch and the wooden shoe: Scientific management and the Industrial Workers of the World Mike Davis on the introduction of Taylorist management techniques to break up…
Washing machines factory in Berlin closing down, 2005 As a large washing machine factory in Berlin closes down, Wildcat examine the history of the plant,…
