Drawing on the detailed research of their book ‘New Labour/Hard Labour? Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry’, |Alex Law & Gerry Mooney draw "attention to some of the many ways in which welfare workers are being adversely affected by the restructuring of the welfare state and, more importantly, how they are resisting New Labour in new and significant ways.

Poverty is back on the political agenda, but in worrying ways. In this excellent extended piece, Gerry Mooney dissects attempts to frame the issue in terms of culture and aspiration, arguing instead for an emphasis on the structure of social relations.

Gerry Mooney reviews 'Smoke and Mirrors: Fighting Housing Privatisation, Edinburgh Against Stock Transfer'.