10/24/2025 - 1:00am

Meet China’s postmen poets Working-class literature is deeply subversive

Megan Walsh

31.03

What Starbucks has stolen Political culture starts and ends with coffee

Mary Harrington

07.09

Uber’s dangerous drive to serfdom The company might fancy itself as a woke corporation, but its exploitative labour practices are worthy of the Gilded Age

Marshall Auerback

19.05

Up the workers: how Covid reset society’s values After decades of disdain for working people, their worth has risen rapidly. Will we back up our words with action?

Jenny McCartney

29.04

Pity the out-of-work influencers Don't mock their empty and decadent jobs: the Instagrammers were only trying to forge a new path

James Bloodworth

20.09

The exploited underclass is revolting Callum Cant's optimistic new book about the gig economy examines the ways the 'roos' are rising up

James Bloodworth

18.09

Who will speak for today’s working class? The upper echelons of the Church now appeal more to Remain-supporting Hampstead than Leave-supporting Hartlepool

Paul Embery

17.09

How political should the Archbishop be?

Andrew McKie

11.07

Warehouse work needn’t be worthless Packing boxes in an Amazon fulfilment centre could be the job of your dreams

Polly Mackenzie

09.07

Why we can’t ignore the working-class identity crisis The hollowing out of former colliery towns is having existential consequences

James Bloodworth

04.07

The gig economy: a platform for exploitation

David Z Morris

24.11

The gig economy should be for people who ‘gig’, not for businesses wanting cheap labour