Inequality
Class will seek to address the persistence of inequality in our society by working with academics and experts to analyse its corrosive impacts and develop strong and effective policy proposals to address the many problems it poses to individuals and society.
We are already working on a number of projects in this area including developing an alternative economic strategy which focuses on how we can achieve a fairer economy for all.
Projects
Publications
- Trade unions and economic inequality
- The Great British Rip Off
- The role of local government in a modern state
- In the public interest
- The importance of the labour movement in tackling inequality
- Without Social Europe there can be no Social Britain in our lifetime
- BRIEFING: Bankers’ Bonuses
- Reconstruction after the Crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Education, justice and democracy
- Austerity Illusions and Debt Delusions
- Boom-time for legal loan sharks
- In Place of Fear
- Duty to care
- In Land Revenue
- Financing the Social State
- The Case for Universalism
- Exposing the Myths of Welfare
- Tackling Squalor
- Why Inequality Matters
- What would a socially just education system look like?
- Rising inequality and financial crises
Blogs
- How can we reduce the need for food banks?
- Class Conference 2014: Podcasts
- Time for more working-class women in Parliament
- The role of trade unions in challenging inequality
- Ed Balls tackles a major General Anti-Abuse Rule deficiency
- Don’t be fooled - Ukip offers nothing to Britain’s workers
- Conservative Party Conference: The view from the library next door
- Whose recovery is it?
- A decent deal for workers
- In an era of public spending restraint, how can economic inequality be addressed?
- The link between the rise of food banks and the rolling back of the welfare state
- Thomas Piketty talks inequality and politics with Class
- How to Regulate Zero Hours Contracts
- Why we must close gaps in the law around domestic violence
- Low pay and increased job insecurity: the state of single parent employment
- The Bedroom tax by numbers
- Fighting austerity: why we need to talk about human rights
- The key to reducing inequality? Stronger trade unions
- What to make of the IPPR report
- It’s time to reverse the ascendance of finance capitalism
- Storify: Thomas Piketty in conversation with Lord Stewart Wood
- The significance of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- A Primer: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Why Class is hosting Thomas Piketty
- To tackle the Great British Rip Off, we must end zero-hours contracts
- VIDEO: The Great British Rip Off
- Fair pay: cracking down at the other end of the income ladder
- Thirty years on, we need the truth about the miners’ strike
- Why soaring wage inequality in the UK should worry everyone
- Why Britain needs to end hunger fast
- Paying the highest price: Austerity will accelerate area health inequalities
- Whose recovery is it?
- Inequality – not just bad, it’s bad economics too
- Trade unions must be at the heart of the debate on living standards
- The Living Wage Commission will examine the reality of low pay in Britain
- BRIEFING: the 50p tax rate
- During Debt Awareness Week people are turning to payday lenders to stay afloat
- Inequality is increasing. Governments must act.
- Avoiding Davos
- What would a further £25bn of spending cuts mean for child poverty?
- What Labour needs to do in 2014
- Our big challenge - Solidarity in the face of insecurity
- There are some things too important to be left to the market
- There is a feasible and popular alternative to austerity
- Households are being excluded from the benefits of growth
- Attacks on legal aid will mean access to justice is only for the rich
- Austerity - there can be no compromise with a failed idea
- Zero hours: full time work without a full time job
- No real economic change will be felt until income inequality is reduced
- How the Government is creating a climate of fear for migrants and ethnic minorities
- This latest attack will leave millions of working people priced out of the legal system
- The Spending Review: nasty politics not real economics
- The Spirit Level Film - the story so far
- In place of fear: It’s time to tackle alarming health inequalities
- We need to challenge the myths that poison attempts at progressive change
- Why we need a political campaign to reinstate the NHS
- A budget speech of a chancellor who is trapped
- The scale of the Coalition government’s ambition
- Britain’s economic model is deeply flawed, but the government is doing nothing
- Class politics and the media - breaking through the barriers
- Reviving the Beveridge vision of a Social State
- Stop pushing people into poverty and get serious about job creation
- Culture is a class issue
- To achieve recovery we need a pro-active government committed to tackling inequality
- The Austerity Strategy Has Failed - March for A Future That Works
- Turning employees into ‘owners’? The falsest promise yet
- The chicanery of this week’s economics
- This is a crisis for most – but it’s still boom time for those at the top
- It’s easy to dismiss predistribution as a gimmick but what does it actually mean?
- Does inequality matter?
- Our young people deserve a secure future
- It’s time to stop kicking people at the bottom
- Inequality, the crash and the crisis: Part 1 ‘The defining issue of our times’
- Bringing the message of equality to the screen
- Now is the time for a new Tax Justice Consensus
Events
- Election 2015: Glasgow - What’s at stake for work, pay and trade unions?
- Class Conference 2013: Leading the Debate
- Election 2015: Bristol - What’s at stake for tax?
- Election 2015: Manchester - What’s at stake for the NHS?
- Election 2015: Birmingham - What’s at stake for the economy?
- TUC Congress 2014: Challenging Power, Raising Living Standards
- Labour Party Conference 2014: The Great British Rip Off
- Labour Party Conference 2014: Wealth, Inequality and Power
- Labour Party Conference 2014: What Britain Needs
- Eve of Gala Rally @ The Durham Miners’ Gala
- Cardiff - The Great British Rip-Off: How can we tackle the cost of living crisis?
- Newcastle - The Great British Rip-Off: How can we tackle the cost of living crisis?
- London - The Great British Rip-Off: How can we tackle the cost of living crisis?
- TUC Congress 2013: Reconstruction after the crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Labour Party Conference 2013: Austerity and the Alternative
- TUC Congress 2013: Achieving a Social State
- Labour Party Conference 2013: Achieving a Social State
- A think tank for working people: Class Yorkshire Launch
- A think tank for working people: Class North West Launch
- GMB Congress 2013: Why is Class such an important GMB investment?
- Scottish Labour Party Conference 2013: Resisting cuts in welfare - the case for universalism
- Class Parliamentary Launch - Why Inequality Matters
- Labour Party Conference 2012: Equality - The Real Alternative
- TUC Congress 2012: Why Inequality Matters
Latest news
- Class Conference 2014: The Film
- Class Conference 2014: The Photos
- Class Conference 2014: The Highlights
- New Class/YouGov poll finds 2 in 3 people want to cap executive salaries
- We hear your views on the living standards crisis in advance of our regional tour of events
- Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference
- Class and Red Pepper launch first in a series of mythbusters: Exposing the myths of welfare
- Class launch in Parliament to a packed house
- Frances O’Grady to speak at Class Parliamentary Launch
- Video of Class fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference
Press releases
- New Class/YouGov poll finds 2 in 3 people want to cap executive salaries
- Think tank calls for a radical rethink of the role of local government
- Thomas Piketty to debate top advisor to Ed Miliband in parliament
- New poll reveals nearly 4 in 5 Britons feel they are not personally benefitting from economic recove
- Class launches new policy library resource for trade unions and researchers
- Think tank calls for action against rip-off payday lenders
- Class holds North West launch & commits to giving working people in the UK a strong political voice
- Health inequalities widen as rising mortality and falling life expectancy buck long-term trends
- It’s time for a political response to attacks on universal health care
- The housing crisis – Time for a heavy dose of realism
- Zoe Williams paper launches new Class series – A Social State for 2015
- New CLASS publication challenges politicians to put inequality back on the agenda
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This government is using the state as a union buster
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The select committee confirms it: academies are a failed experiment
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How should trade unions respond to strike law threats?
