A Fair Economy
The impact of the Government’s austerity agenda has been felt most acutely by the most vulnerable while those who caused the economic crisis continue to profit unhindered.
This project will analyse the impact of the economic crisis and the austerity agenda and will look at how the economy can be rebalanced towards the interests of working people and away from those of the banking sector and big business.
Publications
- Briefing: Productivity
- Trade unions and economic inequality
- The Great British Rip Off
- The importance of the labour movement in tackling inequality
- BRIEFING: Bankers’ Bonuses
- Reconstruction after the Crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Austerity Illusions and Debt Delusions
- Boom-time for legal loan sharks
- In Land Revenue
- Financing the Social State
- Towards a new tax consensus
- Fiscal austerity
- Rising inequality and financial crises
Blogs
- Royal Mail - privatising public assets has largely been a mistake across the world
- Five ways to deal with a full blown Conservative Government
- The role of trade unions in challenging inequality
- TTIP: a view from the centre left
- Whose recovery is it?
- A decent deal for workers
- It’s time to reverse the ascendance of finance capitalism
- To tackle the Great British Rip Off, we must end zero-hours contracts
- Live updates and the latest comment on the Autumn Statement
- 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
- The shackles are off Ed Miliband – but he can do more
- Momentum is moving in our direction - bold policies have popular support
- Instead of blaming ordinary people we should be explaining the reasons for falling living standards
- The market is broken
- Attacks on legal aid will mean access to justice is only for the rich
- Austerity - there can be no compromise with a failed idea
- Access All Areas for trade unions
- The Socialist Way
- Zero hours: full time work without a full time job
- No real economic change will be felt until income inequality is reduced
- The government needs to take the growth of payday lenders more seriously
- The Spending Review: nasty politics not real economics
- Flawed political economics are behind the calls for fiscal conservatism
- Mervyn King’s rosy recovery prediction means little for a shattered nation
- The case for a Land Value Tax
- 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
- Blacklisting: the scandal continues
- 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
- The housing crisis will not be solved by selling the homes of low-income families
- It’s time to stop kicking people at the bottom
- Inequality, the crash and the crisis: Part 1 ‘The defining issue of our times’
- How the economic crisis is being used to attack employment rights across Europe
- Now is the time for a new Tax Justice Consensus
Events
- Class Conference 2013: Leading the Debate
- 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
- Costas Lapavitsas’s book launch: How to Change the Post-Crash Economy
- 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
- 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
News and press releases
- Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) responds to Eurostar sell off
- We hear your views on the living standards crisis in advance of our regional tour of events
- New Class-YouGov poll released today shows that most people are not benefitting from the recovery
- Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference
- 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
- Class – Budget spokespeople
- Frances O’Grady to speak at Class Parliamentary Launch
- Video of Class fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference
- New CLASS publication challenges politicians to put inequality back on the agenda
- Shadow Housing Minister Jack Dromey MP responds to Policy Exchange call for sale of social housing
- Audio recordings from Class economics seminar now available
