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Workers from the Covent Garden branch of TGI Fridays on a Unite the union organised strike in a dispute over pay in 2018
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
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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
Nothing to Lose but Our Chains
by Jane Hardy
Pluto Press £19.99
THE key strength of Jane Hardy’s book is charting ‘new terrains of struggle’, some of it successful, among precarious, zero-hours workers, many of whom are migrants and women.
She focuses on “microcosms of struggle” and provides a useful record of some recent strikes, for instance by university lecturers, Birmingham care workers, outsourced cleaners in government departments and universities, McDonalds, Sports Direct and the games industry. Some have featured the new unionism of the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) and the United Voices of the World (UVW), but many feature old unions, the Bakers, Unite, PCS and GMB, so belying the accusations against them of ignoring “marginalised” workers.
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