Exploitation Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Slave-like working conditions on Irish shores

By Michael O’Brien The discontent among Irish fishing vessel owners regarding the quota allocated to foreign-flagged vessels operating in Irish waters under the Common Fisheries Policy gets a wide airing in the Irish media and social media. However, of far less concern

Sep 14, 2023

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism 101: Are all workers exploited? Are there no good bosses?

By Harper Cleves In early November Elon Musk purchased Twitter. Within a week of his ascendancy, he had arbitrarily laid off over half of his staff internationally — by email. This is far from the first time workers have been unceremoniously sacked;

Nov 25, 2022

News & Analysis

United States: Why is everyone quitting their job?

By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Are you thinking about quitting your job? You can’t stand one more day working under the thumb of your manager, you’re not paid nearly enough to deal with the demands

Oct 22, 2021

News & Analysis

Regime of super-exploitation on Irish flagged fishing vessels

By Michael O’Brien The official publication today of The Treatment of Non-EEA Workers in the Irish Fishing Industry by Maynooth University Department of Law has gained widespread coverage in the national media in recent days. The research, funded by the International Transport

Oct 21, 2021

News & Analysis

Pathways to Precarity – new government scheme announced

By Catherine Finnegan The government announced a new Pathways to Work strategy this week aiming to get 75,000 long-term unemployed people back to work as part of the post-pandemic economic recovery. One aspect of this strategy is the Work Placement Experience Programme

Jul 18, 2021

News & Analysis

Interview: Hospitality workers need to organise

The hospitality sector has experienced an unprecedented level of attacks on workers’ conditions and pay, with the employers utilizing the Covid pandemic and lockdowns as a convenient cover for dodgy employment practices. Despite this, workers in the sector have been attempting to

Jul 17, 2021

Workers' Rights·Workplace News

Starbucks & Nespresso’s child labour secret exposed

A boy of ten or twelve carries a sack of coffee beans bigger than his torso up a steep hill. He stops to rub his back, grimacing in pain, then picks up the sack again and carries on. This is the true

Mar 6, 2020

News & Analysis

Precarity- Why a new generation of workers must organise

From fast food workers getting organised to fight for a living wage, to Uber drivers fighting a company infamous for its use of bogus self-employment models, to McDonalds’ workers in the US saying ‘No More’ to sexual harassment, a section of workers

Dec 6, 2018

Karl Marx’s theory of class struggle: the working class & revolution

Two hundred years since Karl Marx was born and 170 years since his most famous work, The Communist Manifesto, was published, Eddie McCabe looks at Marx’s theory of class struggle and assesses its relevance for today. Without the labour power of

May 5, 2018

News & Analysis·Workplace News

JobBridge scrapped but fight against exploitation schemes continues

JobBridge, the flagship free labour scheme, is to be scrapped. However, the welfare-to-work edifice and ideology which it was part of remains and needs to be torn down.

May 23, 2016

Exploitation

Slave-like working conditions on Irish shores

Socialism 101: Are all workers exploited? Are there no good bosses?

United States: Why is everyone quitting their job?

Regime of super-exploitation on Irish flagged fishing vessels

Pathways to Precarity – new government scheme announced

Interview: Hospitality workers need to organise

Starbucks & Nespresso’s child labour secret exposed

Precarity- Why a new generation of workers must organise

Karl Marx’s theory of class struggle: the working class & revolution

JobBridge scrapped but fight against exploitation schemes continues

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden