Steven Parfitt is a University and College Union member and Teaching Fellow at Loughborough University, and has written extensively on British and American social history, including a recent book, Knights Across the Atlantic: The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, published with Liverpool University Press. He has also written for Jacobin, Labor Notes, OpenDemocracy UK, TheConversation.com and In These Times.
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Published in: Transformation: OpinionThe real cancel cultureThere’s definitely a space where free speech has been curtailed. It’s called the workplace.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLabour history shows us where workers “took back control” without building wallsCurrent debates on automation, precarity, identity and internationalism would do well to better observe the lessons...
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Published in: TransformationThe future of trade unionsUnless democracy is reinstated as the movement’s guiding principle, organized labor will fail in any form.
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Published in: TransformationThe US teachers strike in historical perspectivePrevious waves of unrest offer clues to the possible regeneration of the American labor movement.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhatever the USS vote, can we maintain inter-generational unity and restore our universities?The unprecedented university strike has highlighted deeper issues about how casualisation and commercialisation...