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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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