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Beschreibung

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? Aren't they just for white-haired, middle-aged miners anyway?

The government constantly attacks unions, CEOs devote endless time and resources to undermining them, and many unions themselves are stuck in the past. Despite this, inspiring work is happening all the time, from fast food strikes and climate change campaigning to the modernisation of unions for the digital age. Speaking to academics, experts and grassroots organisers from TUC, UNISON, ACORN, IWGB and more, Eve Livingston explores how young workers are organising to demand fair workplaces, and reimagines what an inclusive union movement that represents us all might look like.

Working together can change the course of history, and our bosses know that. Yes, you need a union, but your union also needs you!

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? Aren't they just for white-haired, middle-aged miners anyway?

The government constantly attacks unions, CEOs devote endless time and resources to undermining them, and many unions themselves are stuck in the past. Despite this, inspiring work is happening all the time, from fast food strikes and climate change campaigning to the modernisation of unions for the digital age. Speaking to academics, experts and grassroots organisers from TUC, UNISON, ACORN, IWGB and more, Eve Livingston explores how young workers are organising to demand fair workplaces, and reimagines what an inclusive union movement that represents us all might look like.

Working together can change the course of history, and our bosses know that. Yes, you need a union, but your union also needs you!

Über den Autor

Eve Livingston is a freelance journalist specialising in social affairs, politics and inequalities. She has written for the Guardian, Independent, VICE, Dazed and many others, and has appeared on the BBC and ITV. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils for her writing on trade unions.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Why unions?

2. Your union isn't rubbish, it's disempowered

3. Resisting the gig economy

4. Beyond equality and diversity: The case for a liberatory unionism

5. HR are not your friends

6. Transcending the workplace

7. Power up: Organising in the digital age

8. Reimagining union democracy

9. Organising hospitality: A toolkit for the future

Conclusion: How unions change our lives

Resources

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Outspoken by Pluto
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780745341620
ISBN-10: 0745341624
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Livingston, Eve
Hersteller: Pluto Press (UK)
Outspoken by Pluto
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 196 x 127 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Eve Livingston
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,148 kg
Artikel-ID: 119809655