Why the Working Class is Key
Supplementary Thoughts on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and the Ongoing Great Money Trick
The Life and Times of Jimmy Hoffa
Down But Not Out: The Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression
This is a Ph.D. dissertation in the field of U.S. labor history. See www.wrightswriting.com/ for more Marxist scholarship.
Sorry We Missed You: Wage Slavery in the Spotlight
Only the Working Class Can Save the Planet
Capitalism's New Economy: The Working Class
On re-reading this piece, what is striking about the picture of the working class in capitalism's self-styled service economy in 2006 is how much it resembles the situation today. After decades of capitalist restructuring in the face of problems stemming from the declining rate of profit (problems by no means confined to the economy of the UK) there are now recognisable constants in the socio-economic profile of the 'restructured' working class.
Zealots and ditherers
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