Organising campaigns need to start in all the industries that employ precarious workers.
Many precarious workers have to do two or three jobs just to make ends meet.
In some cases, humanitarian agencies, local authorities and churches have stepped in to help stranded and precarious workers.
It is emblematic of a kind of student activism that sees increasingly little difference between students and highly precarious workers.
It comes as no surprise that 79% of the unemployment generated by the financial crisis is attributable to young, precarious workers.
These kinds of campaigns and unions – capable of engaging and organising young, migrant and precarious workers – are one of the great hopes for rebuilding a serious mass movement.
More than 100 people turned up: parents, carers, non-unionised workers, unemployed and precarious workers and a group of Spanish "indignados" who have been, since 15 May, holding protests outside the Spanish embassy in London.
In a way it may actually be the most marginal and precarious workers, the disposable young, de-skilled and casual labourers, migrant workers and others at the bottom of the pile.
The porn workers who do their jobs well enough that you buy their performance are giving their consent, but they likely do so only as other precarious workers do: they need the money and have limited choices.
Apps like Deliveroo, the food delivery service that has taken the high street by storm, or Uber's food delivery branch, are only a couple of years old, and are growing rapidly and employing armies of (precarious) workers.
