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Workers' Inquiry

Notes From Below
Class Struggle
Labor Movement
Deindustrialization
Higher Education
University System
Care Sector
Financial Crisis
Marxism
Social Care
Casualization
Neoliberalism
Austerity
Working Class
Workers' Rights
Solidarity
Outsourcing
Economic Inactivity
Care Economy
Disability
Economic Conditions

A podcast about work, struggle and revolution by Notes from Below.

PublishesMonthlyEpisodes22Foundeda year ago
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New from the NFB vault: guest editors Rehana Zaman, Jenny Warren and Allan Struthers join Dante to discuss issue 24 on class struggle in arts and culture. This interview was recorded in late 2025.

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The podcast returns with an election special on workers' inquiry, fascism, and poultry farms.

Lotte's book: An Economy of Starlings

The Future In Our Past - out now on Verso

Interview about the book with Sam Kelly on Red Medicine

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How do you build a militant rank and file movement of thousands of young workers in a sector everyone says is impossible to organise? Nick Troy joins us to talk strikes, hospitality, service work, and the experiences of the Unite Hospitality branch i... more

First off - sorry for the delay! As always, we blame the bosses.

Second, enjoy this interview about organising in the care sector during the pandemic. Connor, our guest from episode one of Workers' Inquiry, returns to interview Allison and Steve ab... more

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Recent Guests

Rehana Zaman
Guest editor, Issue 24, Dispassion's Class Struggle in Arts and Culture
Notes from Below / Issue 24
Episode: Gallery Wars - Class Struggle in the Culture Industry
Jenny Warren
Guest editor, Issue 24, Dispassion's Class Struggle in Arts and Culture
Notes from Below / Issue 24
Episode: Gallery Wars - Class Struggle in the Culture Industry
Alan Struthers
Guest editor, Issue 24, Dispassion's Class Struggle in Arts and Culture
Notes from Below / Issue 24
Episode: Gallery Wars - Class Struggle in the Culture Industry
Nick Troy
Chair of Unite Hospitality, Glasgow branch and Unite Hospitality National Combine; bartender and union activist
Unite Hospitality
Episode: Strike First Strategy: Organising in Glasgow's hospitality sector
Steve North
Care and Support Workers Organized organizer
CASWO
Episode: Ep 17: Moving beyond the terror (Care and Support Workers Organise)
Allison Treacher
Care and Support Workers Organized organizer
CASWO
Episode: Ep 17: Moving beyond the terror (Care and Support Workers Organise)
Austin Kelmore
Worker in the video games industry and organizer with the IWGB
IWGB Game Workers
Episode: Ep 16: Why is GTA6 delayed? Class struggle
Steff Huì Cí Ling
Cultural worker from Vancouver; writer who contributed to The Only Polemic Left in the Art World is Worker Power
Arts and Cultural Workers Union (local context)
Episode: Ep 15: Art Worker Power
Mostafa Henaway
Community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre
Immigrant Workers Centre
Episode: Ep 7: Essential Work, Disposable Workers

Host

Callum
Host of Workers' Inquiry, likely involved in discussions around labor rights and political activism.

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 68 ratings
  • Beyond experience

    Worker’s Inquiry works because it wrings socialist theory out of workers’ experience. In a left dominated by declassed activists and academics, this is a welcome relief. And it’s well produced!

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    Canadaa year ago

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Fascists by the Seaside: Workers' Inquiry in Yarmouth
Q: What sparked the idea to start the Workers Inquiry in Great Yarmouth?
The growing influence of the far-right and the sense that practical, bottom-up organizing could ground resistance in everyday working conditions, leading to a long-term project rather than a one-off protest.
Ep 17: Moving beyond the terror (Care and Support Workers Organise)
Q: What were the major wins and long-term impacts of CASWO's campaigns?
Major wins included the Salford offer that ensured public funding for care workers' sick pay, the Foundation Living Wage across a large provider, and a migrant workers charter, all of which broadened political engagement and laid groundwork for future organizing. Long-term impacts include transforming how unions mobilize for social care, centering worker voices, and inspiring subsequent campaigns and organizational models beyond CASWO itself.
Ep 17: Moving beyond the terror (Care and Support Workers Organise)
Q: How did CASWO balance traditional union methods with the unique needs of social care workers?
CASWO leveraged classic organizing techniques—leadership development, agitation around shared interests, and building leverage through campaigns—while adapting them to care work realities. They focused on testimony, local campaigns (housing, parking), cross-union collaboration, and inclusive discussion about issues like care being green jobs and the broader social context of care work.
Ep 17: Moving beyond the terror (Care and Support Workers Organise)
Q: What were the core motivations for forming CASWO and how did it begin?
CASWO formed as a response to the pandemic's height, when care workers faced PPE shortages, unsafe conditions, and a sense that existing unions weren't adequately addressing frontline realities. The group grew from aUnison call to connect workers, expand dialogue, and build a cross-union network that could listen to frontline experiences and translate them into practical, collective actions.
Ep 11 : Under London
Q: Can you start by kind of describing to me what a normal day at work looks like for you?
James describes his work day starting at midday, consisting of driving the Piccadilly Line up and down with minimal human interaction and long stretches of monotony, leading to feelings of isolation.

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2. Jenny Warren
3. Alan Struthers
4. Nick Troy
5. Steve North
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