Publications
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- Employment Figures Do Not Tell The Full Story
- Public Support Capping Pay Ratios To Curb Fat Cats
- The Fat Cat Diet: A progressive plan for wage fairness
- Austerity: The Reality For People With A Learning Disability
- Let’s Talk About The Economy
- Build The Homeless A Home
- The Problem With GCSEs
- CEO Pay Is Up Again, Is It Time For An Excessive Pay Levy?
- The Workers Outsourced Will Never Be Defeated
- Universal Credit Failure Leaves Thousands Hungry
- Amazon Workers Across Europe Take On Jeff Bezos
- Obesity and Inequality, Two Peas in a Pod?
- Young Parents Trapped By Welfare System
- Labour Market Realities: Growing Precarity for Housing Workers
- We March and Strike When Policy Suggestions Aren’t Enough
- University Or Not, Young People Have It Stacked Against Them
- The Problem With In-Work Poverty
- CLASS Response to the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices: An Opportunity Missed
- Autumn Statement 2016: Reactions from Our Panel
- How serious is the new Prime Minister and her government about making the country work for everyone
- Day1: Brexit: Implications for young people
- Lloyds cuts 3,000 jobs: where’s the accountability?
- The mountain of student debt weighing on our young people may soon get even bigger.
- Theresa May’s brand of inequality
- Queen’s Speech: response
- Putting inequality back on the centre-left agenda
- The Panama Papers reveal deep problems at the heart of our economy
- The increase to the minimum wage should be welcomed, but the fight against inequality is being lost
- Budget 2016: The reaction from our panel
- What can we expect from today’s budget?
- What are the next battles for gender equality?
- Looking ahead: what Class did next
- Now a lost eleven years on pay, unprecedented for at least 150 years
- More likely to go to prison than university? But a degree doesn’t close the pay gap
- How our social security system holds back low-paid workers
- Why the Lords’ defeat of the government’s attempt to redefine child poverty is important
- The economics of Google’s tax
- How can we help the wealthy part with their wealth?
- Spending Review 2015: Still failing to invest in women’s security
- Spending review 2015: Our Panel’s Reaction
- Spending review 2015: Your Guide
- Our study shows that economic recession leads to increased levels of suicide
- This is why lecturers at further education colleges are striking
- #EqualPayDay: What are the facts?
- Let’s (Cautiously) Celebrate Living Wage Week
- Tax credit cuts and the Living Wage: Do the numbers stack up?
- How can we measure national success? Five headline indicators to replace GDP
- Low-paid workers – worse off next year and even worse off in 2020
- Cutting vital income and stigmatising the low paid? The Conservatives are no workers’ party
- Equal pay for equal work - nothing less will do
- Against Aspiration
- Enabling Aspiration
- Young people’s debts have doubled in five years and are now highest of all age groups
- Five ways to deliver a good budget
- Budget 2015: Our panel’s reaction
- With this budget, the Chancellor is taking us into unknown territory
- An EU Perspective On Wage Inequality
- Labour and Conservatives: the manifestos
- Personal Tax Allowance: How an Increase Widens Inequality
- The worst thing about the Budget? The tax cuts
- Budget 2015: Our panellists give their reaction
- Storify: the top reactions to #Budget2015
- What to expect from the 2015 budget
- Why workplace union reps should be supported rather than attacked
- Don’t believe the hype: average income has not returned to pre-crisis levels
- Reversing the rising poverty tide requires fundamental change
- Look after employment and the budget deficit will take care of itself
- It’s no surprise that charity workers say the Big Society is dead
- How can we reduce the need for food banks?
- Autumn Statement 2014: Seven thinkers share their views
- Time for more working-class women in Parliament
- Conservative Party Conference: The view from the library next door
- Thomas Piketty talks inequality and politics with Class
- How to Regulate Zero Hours Contracts
- Low pay and increased job insecurity: the state of single parent employment
- Fighting austerity: why we need to talk about human rights
- Why we are striking
- The key to reducing inequality? Stronger trade unions
- What to make of the IPPR report
- Storify: Thomas Piketty in conversation with Lord Stewart Wood
- Sanctioning job seekers who refuse zero-hours contracts is counterproductive
- The tube strike in numbers
- 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
- Employers and flexible working: Is it really such a stretch?
- Why soaring wage inequality in the UK should worry everyone
- Why immigration is good for all of us
- What can we expect from Budget 2014?
- Join me to debate The Great British Rip Off in Newcastle this evening
- Whose recovery is it?
- On public sector pay, we need less talk of gold-plated pensions and more talk of unions
- We need action to reduce the costs of childcare
- 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
- Fair pay in higher education – why I went on strike today
- What to make of the latest claims on living standards?
- During Debt Awareness Week people are turning to payday lenders to stay afloat
- Where are the stories about in-work poverty?
