The workers’ inquiry: what’s the point?
Joe Thorne looks at the history of the “workers’ inquiry” idea: from Marx, to Italy in the 1960s, to the present day. This fairly long article touches on debates amongst those influenced by operaismo about how we should relate to the modern workplace.
Prol-Position workers' questionnaires
Questionnaires for workers used by Prol-Position to investigate working conditions and workers' struggles.
Bad vibrations at China's extended workbench, 2008
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 18 2010 12:53
A report on working life and the possibilities for struggle from a machine plant in Brandenburg, Germany in 2008.
Filipina workers in Romania, 2008
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 18 2010 12:41
An account of some struggles of migrant workers from the Philippines in Romania in 2008.
Factory or Prison - Bangladeshi workers in Romania
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 18 2010 12:35
Prol-Position on some struggles of Bangladeshi and Indian migrant workers in Romania in 2007-8.
1949-2007: Women workers in China
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 18 2010 12:30
Wildcat analyse the situation, role and struggles of women in China from the Cultural Revolution until today.
China: The generation of unhappy workers, 2007
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 12 2010 18:43
Wildcat analyse the history and current situation of urban state workers in China, the employer attacks on them and the workers' responses.
China's migrant workers
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 12 2010 18:34
Wildcat's history and analysis of internal migration in China from the 1950s until today.
Comments on crisis: Stop looking into the headlights
Various thoughts from Prol-Position on the financial crisis beginning in 2008.
The unions on new grounds: When the workmate becomes a client
Wildcat examine unions' recent trends towards employing activists and organising migrant workers and ask has anything really changed?
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