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The Problems with Building Wind Farms

The LRB Podcast

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Unite Is the Union, or Is It Unite?

The five-day week and the eight-hour working day were won in the UK by workers organizing. The difficulty here is how do you, how do workers in Contire as it were organized together with the workers in Poulmy and Vietnam to down tools together? And that's the huge and apparently insurmountable problem. But there's another less, perhaps, palatable point about the plight of the workers in Vietnam and Fumi which is, should they be doing these jobs at all?

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