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Sam Stroud is a social researcher and journalist from Cardiff.
Narratives about preferential housing for migrants and ethnic minorities have fuelled racism in Britain for more than a century – while letting the landlords and politicians really responsible for the housing crisis off scot free.
In October 1936, 200 men marched from Jarrow to London to demand an end to unemployment and poverty. Their efforts were unsuccessful – but their fight against injustice remains as relevant as ever.
The Bradford Factor, a secretive formula used by bosses to determine the ‘disruptiveness’ of worker absences, is an increasingly popular means of employer control – and treating illness as an offence.
This year’s successful Rolls Royce strike brought Barnoldswick back to the headlines – but in the mid-1980s it was the site of one of the longest strikes in British history.