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How workers can take on big finance and win
A new book makes the case for a renewed role for unions in challenging financial capitalism.
By
Alice Martin, Annie Quick
25 September 2020
Unions Renewed: Building Power in an Age of Finance, by Alice Martin and Annie Quick
The impact of Covid-19 has been a powerful reminder of the leverage workers could collectively hold. Care workers, supermarket cashiers and couriers – usually dismissed as “unskilled” – have demonstrated how crucial they are to keeping society’s cogs turning. What would it take for these workers to become the