The show that exposes the world’s worst workplaces

The Guardian‘s Polly Toynbee reports on The Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London. Curated by Cindy Sissokho, various artworks address themes of oppression, resistance, and the undervaluation of workers, with a focus on women and domestic labour. Toynbee writes: “There is no better time [for this exhibition] than now, as the new government’s plans for working rights come under attack from the right for abolishing worst practices – zero hours, fire and rehire – and giving unions new powers to recruit and organise. Most contentious is the “right to disconnect”, to turn off employers’ constant demands outside working hours. That carries a deep significance, of freedom from an overseer’s expectation of perma-available, all-hours servitude. Send any recalcitrant bosses here to contemplate how they use their great power over their workers’ lives.”  Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights is at the Wellcome Centre, London, 19 September to 27 April; admission free.