Unpaid
The Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft
$30.41
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2026
Summary
An extra 15 minutes work here, another 20 minutes there: wage theft has been described as a silent epidemic blighting the global workforce. And it’s on the rise. In the UK and US alone millions of workers put in billions of unpaid hours amounting to tens of billions in wage theft. The problem pervades throughout the world, in every sector of every country, though it is often worse in low and middle-income countries. But what if wage theft, rather than being a modern bug, is a feature of capit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804295663 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804295663 |
| Author: | Matthew Cole |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
A searing and revelatory unmasking of the despicable reality of modern capitalism. Few books are able to make complex ideas so accessible - yet this is one of them – Owen Jones
Passionately political. A vital read for anyone who works for a living – Gavin Mueller, author of Breaking Things at Work
An absolutely essential guide to capitalist class relations. Unpaid unflinchingly catalogues the reality of labour exploitation under capitalism, presenting Marx’s most important ideas in a clear, succinct and compelling way – Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism
The future is being stolen from us, day by day. The glorious technological future we are constantly being told is imminent is in fact, Matt Cole reminds us, built with unpaid labor. In this deeply researched and meticulously argued book, Cole provides a sharpened blade with which to take on the techno-oligarchs (and ordinary bad bosses, too) – Sarah Jaffe, author of From the Ashes and Work Won’t Love You Back
Matthew Cole
Dr. Matthew Cole is a Lecturer on Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex, researching wage theft and technological change. He is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute working on the Fairwork Project and the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit). His work has been published in Tribune, Novara, Vice, OpenDemocracy, The Independent, Salvage, and in various academic journals.
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