[youtube width=”590″ height=”332″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0ShooriD-k[/youtube] I am in a small loft space, accessed by a ladder, carved out of a room used as printing press. The headroom is not there to stand up but perfect for sitting on the floor. By Mumbai’s standards, a generous workspace, relatively tranquil. A man on a […]

I’ve barely done any paid work since January. Previously, I’d worked as a shop assistant for two years but the shop in question went out of business. Before that I was long-term unemployed and struggling with severe anxiety and depression. Being able to live rent-free with my parents means that […]

A wage, these days, is increasingly hard to come by, and increasingly precarious when found. The proliferation of agency work, zero-hours contracts and underemployment is well-documented. Microtasking, where people are paid per task to work from home for tech giants like Amazon, is perhaps the most developed form yet of […]

I am a salesman, I sell things for a living. What I sell has no importance. Selling is always the same process, with only minor adjustments according to whether you sell cars or paintings, films or hams. What remains the same is the distinctive manner in which the consciousness of […]

“I usually get up at 5 or 5:15am. Historically, I would start sending emails when I got up. But not everyone is on my time schedule, so I have tried to wait until 7am. Before I email, I work out, read, and use our products. … I am not a […]

Judgement Day, August 4th 1997. The day that the human race was wiped out by Skynet, a man-made advanced artificial intelligence which judged the continued existence of the human race as an unnecessary tactical error. The machines we built to save us, destroy us. This is the history of the […]

Women, Social Reproduction and the Approaching Precipice The concept of social reproduction – that is, the process that makes it possible for individuals, families, and society itself to continue – provides the framework for this article, which is premised on the existence of a silent and hidden crisis affecting the invisible […]

Michael Hardt has combined his role as Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University with political writings and activism. Together with the Italian Marxist Antonio Negri, he has produced an influential critique of our present time. Their trilogy of books – titled “Empire”, “Multitude”, and “Commonwealth” – have been described […]

At the Sussex occupation, a copy of The Problem with Work by Kathi Weeks lies on the floor. Some of the occupiers remark that they have not done any of their class work for the past six weeks, since they started occupying Bramber House. They don’t seem worried about it. Instead […]

I’m employed on a ‘zero hours’ contract, paid at £6.20 per hour. The care company I work for is not obligated to provide me with any hours, and in any case can only give me the hours which are available. The most hours I have worked in a single week […]