An account of the British Film Institute strikes, 2002
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 22 2016 14:41
A short personal account of the strikes at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London in 2002.
Building a fuckin' parking garage
A manual worker's account of day labour from The Best of Temp Slave!.
A more perfect victim
An account of a former office temp getting revenge on a CEO.
10 tenets for temping
Some rules of temp work according to an ungrateful worker.
I work for Boreco INC.
Submitted by wojtek on May 12 2015 10:08
An account of being a temp in a North American factory from the excellent Best of Temp Slave!
Reflections on The lump by Dave Lamb - Dave Walton
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 21 2014 16:55
A couple of decades on after the publication of the controversial Solidarity pamphlet on the lump (a way of casualising construction work), Dave Walton, a former construction worker looks back on it and the struggles of the time.
The call centre diaries, part 1
Submitted by DanielBaker777 on Jul 11 2014 10:18
The Call Centre Diaries will be a semi regular series detailing my experiences as a precarious worker. To kick things off I’m going to share my experiences of working at Manpower, a major UK recruitment agency. Hopefully this won’t just touch on my experiences as a worker but also how the environment fostered in the kind of companies that thrive in economies structured around temporary contracts is adversely affecting the lives of both their own workers and the unemployed they are supposed to be finding work for.
The struggle of the Belchatow hospital workers: why it is so important
Submitted by akai on Jun 12 2014 10:46
The ZSP union in Poland is currently involved in several important struggles against the exploitation of especially vulnerable categories of workers such as the elderly and people with disabilities. The union is taking on the exploitative practices of outsourcing and the way of conducting public tenders.
All in a day’s work: life and labor in the day labor industry
An article by Everett Martinez about the day labor industry in the construction trades.
The lump: an heretical analysis - Dave Lamb
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 16 2014 16:03
1974 pamphlet by Solidarity criticising the standard left and union response to "the lump": the paying of building workers by lump sums for a job instead of union rates on national terms and conditions. Deeply controversial at the time, it criticised the slogan "Defend the unions, smash the lump!" and pointed out that the building unions agreeing to enforce a government pay freeze in "national interest" bore much responsibility for the development.
