Publication: May 26th, 2026, Verso Books
Events:
Thursday May 28th – Launch Party, Peer, London, UK
Sunday May 31st – Ethical Matters, Conway Hall, London, UK
Wednesday June 3rd – Abolishing Wage Theft, Kings College, London, UK
Thursday June 4th – On Wage Theft, Voce Books, Birmingham, UK
Saturday June 6th – Left Éire, An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk, Ireland
Praise:
“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 