Benjamin Clark

Bookshops have long been romanticised spaces—but the prestige of working with books is no substitute for fair compensation. Amid recent moves towards unionisation in the industry, workers have faced tensions around collective bargaining.

Several recent books examine social mobility in Australia, but run into the same issues as broader discussions of class: a focus on dated signifiers like accents and taste, as opposed to the more complex realities of deepening economic inequality.

Are work emails, the backbone and bane of the modern office, actually a fundamental mistake?

On top of insecure work and wage stagnation, artists and arts workers face the additional burden of being expected to ‘do it for the love’. But patches of resistance are emerging, as workers and trade unions adapt their organising methods to better fit creatives.