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Casual Labour, Agency Work & Unemployment

Posted on March 5, 2014 by malatesta32

‘Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.’ Paul Lafargue, The Right … Continue reading →

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Agency Work …

Posted on March 5, 2014 by malatesta32

Agency is the freedom to operate according to one’s own judgement. We like to think we are free agents at ease to make our own decisions. The amount of agency we can exercise is determined by circumstance and what is possible within … Continue reading →

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…And Unemployment

Posted on March 5, 2014 by malatesta32

… After a brief enforced hiatus due to industrial injury (bad hand) and an extended break over Christmas, Mahmoud at the Cosmodemonic Parcel Company texted at 2.58pm saying ‘Can you come in at 5.15 pls?’ Nothing like the personal touch; nothing … Continue reading →

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Casual Labour, Agency Work & Unemployment

Posted on February 28, 2014 by malatesta32

This is the PDF download for the previous 3 part long article on the experience of casual work and unemployment. Copyright free. Casual Labour

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Notes From The Shopfloor 5: The Will At Work

Posted on December 21, 2013 by malatesta32

‘Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.’ Paul Lafargue, The Right … Continue reading →

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Notes From The Shopfloor 4: Time Enough

Posted on December 20, 2013 by malatesta32

‘A man who has no free time to dispose of, whose whole lifetime, apart from the mere physical interruptions by sleep, meals and so forth, is absorbed by his labour for the capitalist, is less than beast of burden.’ Marx … Continue reading →

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Notes From The Shopfloor 3: Further Alienation

Posted on December 19, 2013 by malatesta32

‘An immediate consequence of the fact that man is estranged from the product of his labor, from his life activity, from his species-being, is the estrangement of man from man.’ Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. ‘Through alienated labour, therefore, man … Continue reading →

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Notes From The Shopfloor 1: Alienation

Posted on December 15, 2013 by malatesta32

‘The work is external to the worker … it is not a part of his nature, [so ]that consequently he does not fulfil himself in his work but denies himself.’ Karl Marx. Economic & Political Manuscripts. We have secured a … Continue reading →

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