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Robin Goodfellow: I'm here because we’re supposed to work 40 hours per week, but we all work 60 hours per week. If we got Google to shut down at 6PM, the boss wouldn't be able to email you and everyone’s happy. We want things back to the way they should be, you know? We don’t want to work 60 hours a week on 40-hour contracts – it’s bullshit.
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Yeah. Everyone turned out to be an emergent service worker. Someone has to represent us people, so here you have it – the eSWP is the future.Alright then.

Fennes: We’re here to be entertained by the latest power structure changes laid upon us.Do you know what the emergent service workers are?
Robert: If I remember correctly, it’s the social class we belong to in the months that she has work.
Fennes: I’m a precariat, so my work is kind of sporadic.So you guys have taken the BBC test?
Yes.And you ended up as emergent service workers?
If we combine our incomes, yes. I’m a freelancer, though, so when I don’t have work I’m a precariat. I’m not sure we are the strict definition of emergent service workers.

Adam: It is, yeah. In the past ten years I’ve seen the figures of people turning up for May Day getting smaller and smaller. I think it’s down to a stigma of the protest having some kind of violent tendency. I can't speak for these guys because I didn't help to organise this one, but the main idea of May Day is to kind of let your hair down. The original roots of May Day were all about debauchery – about drinking and sex.You’re talking about the era when people used to party in the woods, right?
Exactly. It was fun and less about smashing shit up. To be fair, the sentiment is still there for this party. It’s not that different to a march or a protest, it’s just going about it in a different way. It’s engaging with the public, trying to get them into a party, trying to discuss with them the reasons that we’re here and the idea of the emergent worker.
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