Make Bosses Pay - Why We Need Unions

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? Arent 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!

List of contents

Introduction 1. Why Unions?2. Your Union isnt Rubbish, its Disempowered3. Resisting the Gig Economy4. Beyond Equality and Diversity: the Case for Liberatory Unionism5. HR are Not Your Friends6. Transcending the Workplace7. Power Up: Organising in the Digital Age8. Reimagining Union Democracy9. Organising Hospitality: a Toolkit for the FutureConclusion: How Unions Change Our Lives

About the author

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.
Steph Bower is a BBC and ITV broadcast-trained Voiceover, with over 20 years of experience in TV and radio news and presentation. She now specialises in audiobooks and magazines, with a special interest in technology, the environment, medical and scientific genres.

Summary

Think your union doesn’t represent you? Then maybe it’s time to change it.

Product details

• Authors: Steph Bower, Eve Livingston
• Assisted by: Steph Bower (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2021
• EAN: 9780745341620
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4162-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Outspoken by Pluto
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, Social discrimination & inequality, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Sociology: work & labour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Sociology: work and labour, Pressure groups & lobbying, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice