Tag: inequality
Publications
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for the economy?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for housing?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for work, pay and unions?
- Trade unions and economic inequality
- Tackling the housing crisis
- 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
- Think Big, Think Bold
- Why immigration is good for all of us
- 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
- Abolishing Want in a Social State
- Tackling Squalor
- Achieving a Social State
- Why Inequality Matters
- What would a socially just education system look like?
- Towards a new tax consensus
- Rising inequality and financial crises
Blog
- Don’t believe the hype: average income has not returned to pre-crisis levels
- Reversing the rising poverty tide requires fundamental change
- Collective Bargaining, What’s It Good For?
- Look after employment and the budget deficit will take care of itself
- The collapse of housing supply has forced many to breaking point
- We need a government that will fight for our future
- Collective bargaining can begin to rebalance our economy
- The select committee confirms it: academies are a failed experiment
- How can we reduce the need for food banks?
- Will the new stamp duty actually cost you more?
- Autumn Statement 2014: Seven thinkers share their views
- What to make of this year’s Autumn Statement?
- 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
- What conference season has told us about political apathy
- Conservative Party Conference: The view from the library next door
- TTIP: a view from the centre left
- Whose recovery is it?
- 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
- 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
- Sanctioning job seekers who refuse zero-hours contracts is counterproductive
- To tackle the Great British Rip Off, we must end zero-hours contracts
- VIDEO: The Great British Rip Off
- How to Change the Post-Crash Economy
- Fair pay: cracking down at the other end of the income ladder
- The housing crisis could become a disaster. Time for intervention
- Why soaring wage inequality in the UK should worry everyone
- Why Britain needs to end hunger fast
- Why immigration is good for all of us
- What can we expect from Budget 2014?
- Paying the highest price: Austerity will accelerate area health inequalities
- Why the world needs a payrise
- Join me to debate The Great British Rip Off in Newcastle this evening
- Whose recovery is it?
- We need action to reduce the costs of childcare
- Inequality – not just bad, it’s bad economics too
- Hopeful signs in the labour market, but things remain a long way from normal
- 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
- UK: manifestly inadequate
- During Debt Awareness Week people are turning to payday lenders to stay afloat
- BRIEFING: Bankers’ Bonuses
- Avoiding Davos
- Britain’s monetary system, like our sanitation system, is a public good
- Where are the stories about in-work poverty?
- What would a further £25bn of spending cuts mean for child poverty?
- What Labour needs to do in 2014
- The marketisation of education is destroying our universities
- The British left can be empowered by Obama’s speech on the economy
- Responses to the Autumn Statement
- Looking ahead to the Autumn Statement
- Unpaid internships are unfair and elitist – it’s time they ended
- 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
- 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
- This latest attack will leave millions of working people priced out of the legal system
- The government needs to take the growth of payday lenders more seriously
- 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
- Mervyn King’s rosy recovery prediction means little for a shattered nation
- Involuntary idleness represents a massive waste of economic resources
- 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
- Britain’s economic model is deeply flawed, but the government is doing nothing
- Investment in social housing - the best way out of today’s squalor
- Class politics and the media - breaking through the barriers
- Reviving the Beveridge vision of a Social State
- Blacklisting: the scandal continues
- Stop pushing people into poverty and get serious about job creation
- To achieve recovery we need a pro-active government committed to tackling inequality
- Social State: Who are the real scroungers?
- Social State: The Most Important Part of the Welfare State: The NHS
- Social State: Austerity - An Exercise in Divide and Rule
- Social State: Exploding the scrounger myth
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
- Guide to conference sessions and debates
- 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 and LSE Politics blog host lively debate on the Social State
- Frances O’Grady to speak at Class Parliamentary Launch
- Video of Class fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference
