Society / Work

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: Workplace culture.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: Insecure work vs safety.

Work from home policies aren’t going anywhere. So, with many workers in the UK feeling the strain of isolation, now is the time to ramp up trade union organizing, writes Eve Livingston.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: Income vs ethics.

Placard at Cape Town protest during nationwide strike over the cost of living in South Africa. R12,500 = $710

Tom Haines-Doran explores the recent disputes between Britain’s train operating companies and rail union RMT over driver-only operation – and asks why railway workers are both willing to take strike action and successful in doing so.

The obsession with full employment is a dead end in a world on the ecological brink. Richard Swift explores what could sustain us instead.

Black women in the US do the socially important work, often unnamed and unrecognized, that is essential to the profit of an economic elite. Rose M Brewer profiles four examples of how they are standing up for change.

The stratagems of big corporate players and a compliant government will make the job of growing food not worth doing for Indian smallholders. Farming is not just an occupation but a way of life – and the fightback is robust. Navsharan Singh outlines just what is at stake.

Can employees be in full control of their enterprises? Amy Hall explores the possibilities and tensions of worker co-operatives.

Campaigners have long argued that a transition to renewable energy could provide a jobs bonanza. Now politicians are talking that talk – but many workers in the fossil-fuel industry believe it’s a con. Conrad Landin picks through the rhetoric with offshore workers in Scotland.

Starting from the revelations of a global pandemic, Dinyar Godrej looks into the possible futures of work.

Coronavirus has closed factories and workshops across the world, spelling disaster for millions of people who subsist on poverty wages. Tansy Hoskins reimagines a garment industry where workers are better protected.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Aidan Harper makes the case for a new politics of time.

A lack of legal protection combined with toxic prejudice leaves migrant workers in Lebanon between a rock and a hard place. But the struggle for rights is under way and, as Fiona Broom reports, it’s coming from the ground up.

Working children have more pressing concerns than the law, discovers Amy Booth.

They may be good for the environment, but not for those mining the cobalt needed to manufacture their batteries, writes Neil Thompson.

Peter Kenworthy on a striking success for wine workers.

The factory collapse in 2013 caused an international outcry – but have labour conditions improved? Thulsi Narayanasamy reports from Bangladesh.