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The Dignity of Labour
Why the Labour Party needs to rethink its policies on work and our connection with it
WOMEN MAKE HISTORY: In1968 women sewing machinists at the Ford Plant in Dagenham vote to return to work after winning their six-week strike over equal pay
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
THIS book from Dagenham and Rainham MP Jon Cruddas offers a fascinating analysis of where the Labour Party has been going wrong in distancing itself from working people and their lives by not seeing work as the engine for change but as something increasingly peripheral and irrelevant.
Written during the pandemic, Cruddas detects a reawakening in the recognition of the value of work — nurses, doctors, care workers, supermarket staff and bus drivers have suddenly been seen as those doing the vital front-line work of society.
Cruddas chronicles the approaches of different post-war governments, while always remaining rooted in his own experience of Dagenham and Barking. For the author, the rise and fall of Fords in Dagenham finds its mirror in the postwar Labour governments and their policies.
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