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Casual assault on higher education

The creeping marketisation of higher education has had major implications for staff contracts. Xanthe Rose explains the extent of casualised work in the sector.
31 May 2016
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Casual assault on higher education workers

The creeping marketisation of higher education has had major implications for staff contracts. Xanthe Rose explains the extent of casualised work in the sector.
24 May 2016
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Different aspirations

Class is often the missing element in politics, and when it is raised, it is in terms of suffering or aspiration, rather than power.
02 June 2015
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Work contracts: a zero-sum game

Labour leader Ed Miliband has repeatedly pledged to end “exploitative” zero-hours contracts. We can safely assume that he does not plan to abolish exploitation in a Marxist sense – the pumping of unpaid labour out of one class by another. To oppose such exploitation would be to oppose capitalist profit-making full stop. Nonetheless, the pledge...
04 June 2014
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Resisting the outsourcing giants

Has the outsourcing of groups of workers limited their ability to fight back? Ian Taylor looks at recent strikes that challenge this claim, while Kevin Devine looks at the growth of outsourcing.
04 June 2014
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The growth of outsourcing

The effective privatisation of public sector jobs can be resisted by shop floor militancy.
04 June 2014
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Union free school no more

The strike at STEM6 Academy in north London against zero hours contracts and for union recognition shows that if you get organised and fight hard you can win.
03 March 2014
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Taste of victory

Zero hours contracts have become a symbol of austerity Britain. Workers at the Hovis bakery in Wigan have shown how they can be beaten.
01 October 2013
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Zero security?

There are two conflicting accounts of what has happened in the labour market since the onset of the Great Recession. It will amaze Socialist Review readers but there is a story doing the rounds that we are in the middle of a "jobs boom".
01 May 2013
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Is there a precariat?

In recent times some have suggested that we have witnessed the rise of the "precariat". This new class of workers, who endure insecure conditions and low wages, are thought to have different interests to organised workers and little use for trade unions. Esme Choonara disagrees
01 October 2011
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The Precariat

Guy Standing
01 July 2011
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Targeting temporary workers

The recent gains of employment rights for temporary workers, such as the enforcement of equal pay and sick leave, have been a great step forward for a much under-represented section of the working class.
01 July 2008