Image The Courtaulds Red Scar Mill strike, 1965 A short history of the unofficial strike at Courtauld's Red Scar Mill in Preston, 1965, the first of what would become a long list of significant…
Image Racial discrimination in employment? The Bristol bus boycott of 1963 A student dissertation with lots of information about the 1963 boycott of Bristol's buses against…
Image Black and white on the buses: the 1963 colour bar dispute in Bristol A detailed pamphlet by Madge Dresser on the Bristol bus boycott, when a mass campaign defeated the…
Image St Mary's Hospital (Harrow Road) work-in and occupation 1981 Contemporary information about workers at a London hospital taking over their workplace in protest…
Image Before the 'unity' of Grunwick: 40 years since the Imperial Typewriters strike - Evan Smith Article written 40 years on about the strike of predominantly East African Asian…
Image The Imperial Typewriters strike, 1974 - Ron Ramdin An account of the three-month strike by hundreds of mostly East African Asian women workers at the Imperial Typewriters plant in Leicester,…
Image Jolting memory: Nightcleaners recalled - Sheila Rowbotham Sheila Rowbotham recalls both the campaigns to organise female night cleaners in London from 1970,…
Image The headscarf revolutionaries - DD Johnston D.D. Johnston reviews Brian Lavery’s The Headscarf Revolutionaries, an account of a spontaneous campaign by fishermen’s wives in Hull, which…
Image Workers Playtime on the miners' strike Slightly too late for the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the 1984-85 miners' strike... Here are all the Workers' Playtime articles about the…
Image How to kill an act of parliament: solidarity, agency and the dockers in the 1960s and 1970s A paper by Jack Saunders on how an unofficial network of workplace union reps…
Unions woo capital's bike couriers: Rival groups are competing for the organisation of dispatch riders in an effort to improve pay and conditions Article from The Guardian April 9, 1990 about the libertarian direct action union the Despatch Industry Workers Union.
Image Latin american workers in Unite: from heroes to pariahs In September 2009, Unite evicted the Latin American Workers Association from the office space which…
