Notes from Below

Notes from Below
FormatDigital
Founded2018
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Websitenotesfrombelow.org
ISSN2631-9284

Notes from Below is a UK-based digital and print magazine, founded in 2018,[1] that publishes "workers' inquiries" and contemporary class analyses that uses class composition theory.[2] The editors, including Jamie Woodcock and Callum Cant,[3] have modeled their work after the Italian journal Quaderni Rossi and early surveys about working conditions conducted by Karl Marx. Through the inquiries it publishes, the magazine promotes class composition and workerism.[4] The inquiries featured in the magazine have included workers at call centers, Amazon delivery centers, universities, tech companies,[5] and pubs and its coverage has focused on small, militant unions like the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain.[6]

In 2020, Notes from Below was awarded a grant from the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust to produce a special issue.[7] From April 2023, they began to publish their magazine in print, with three issues being released a year.[8]

Notes from Below had contributed to a 2018 University and College Union (UCU) pension strike by publishing bulletins and circulating an open letter in support of the strike.[6]

  1. ^ "New journal: Notes from Below". Historical Materialism. 5 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  2. ^ "The Workers' Inquiry and Social Composition by Notes from Below". Notes from Below. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  3. ^ Barry, Ellen (25 February 2019). "'Austerity, That's What I Know': The Making of a Young U.K. Socialist (Published 2019)". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "Book Review: The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy by Jamie Woodcock". LSE Review of Books. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  5. ^ Varghese, Sanjana. "Tech workers are organising – and asking what technology is actually for". New Statesman. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  6. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Allinson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Workers' Inquiry in theory and practice". Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust. 8 February 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Support". Notes from Below. Retrieved 7 November 2024.