Port Adelaide struggles, 1928-1931
Photo gallery of the strikes and riots at Port Adelaide in Australia which began in 1928 when the employers introduced new working conditions. They cut workers' break time - when workers already did 16 to 48 hour shifts, and crucially strengthened the "bull system", whereby bosses would handpick workers. This meant not only workers having to wait around for hours each day to potentially not get any work but also that union workers could be denied hiring. Union leaders rapidly called off the action but workers continued to fight for three years.
‘It’s only the beginning’: UK McDonald’s staff take historic strike action
Spanish dockworkers prepare for strikes against job losses and casualisation
An account of the British Film Institute strikes, 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.
I work for Boreco INC.
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
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
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.
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