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...par with the beer they sold or the crisps and nuts they stocked: my body was property, something which was commonplace across the so-called ‘hospitality industry’ and other sectors – another mechanism to increase profits. Sometimes I had to do a two-hour shift on my own – completely solo. This was because it was quiet in the early evenings and the company did not...

...had constructed a theory of economic behaviour which they felt put things on a par with the Newtonian dynamics that explained much of observed physical systems before Einstein and quantum theory. The core of the system is the notion of competitive pricing of commodities and productive resources (labour and capital), leading towards a general equilibrium whereby output (renamed welfare) is maximised using all ......