Browsing Tag
Exploitation
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Slave-like working conditions on Irish shores
By Michael O’Brien The discontent among Irish fishing vessel owners regarding the quota allocated to foreign-flagged vessels operating…
Socialism 101: Are all workers exploited? Are there no good bosses?
By Harper Cleves In early November Elon Musk purchased Twitter. Within a week of his ascendancy, he had…
United States: Why is everyone quitting their job?
By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Are you thinking about quitting your…
Regime of super-exploitation on Irish flagged fishing vessels
By Michael O’Brien The official publication today of The Treatment of Non-EEA Workers in the Irish Fishing Industry…
Pathways to Precarity – new government scheme announced
By Catherine Finnegan The government announced a new Pathways to Work strategy this week aiming to get 75,000…
Interview: Hospitality workers need to organise
The hospitality sector has experienced an unprecedented level of attacks on workers’ conditions and pay, with the employers…
Starbucks & Nespresso’s child labour secret exposed
A boy of ten or twelve carries a sack of coffee beans bigger than his torso up a steep hill. He stops to rub his back, grimacing in pain, then picks up the sack again and carries on. This is the true face of Starbucks and Nespresso, behind the mask of “ethical” corporate branding: children working for 40 hours a week, for about £5 per day.
Precarity- Why a new generation of workers must organise
From fast food workers getting organised to fight for a living wage, to Uber drivers fighting a company…
Karl Marx’s theory of class struggle: the working class & revolution
Two hundred years since Karl Marx was born and 170 years since his most famous work, The Communist…
JobBridge scrapped but fight against exploitation schemes continues
JobBridge, the flagship free labour scheme, is to be scrapped. However, the welfare-to-work edifice and ideology which it was part of remains and needs to be torn down.
