Many Britons claim that leaving the EU would scupper the European Social Charter and expose workers to exploitation. If something like this can occur under the Charta, who needs it? Read here
Ethical alternatives are possible, and are popping up across the world. By Robbie Warin Cross.posted from New Economics Foundation More than 850,000 people have signed a petition launched last September to protest Uber’s licence […]
Spanish companies are clocking up profits and dividends at the expense of their workforce, especially young Spaniards, as well as to the detriment of society. No wonder young graduates are going for less glamourous jobs, […]
Uber drivers and college cleaners, cinema workers and McDonalds staff marched for better pay and basic rights. By Aidan Harper, Assistant Researcher at the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from the New Economomics Foundation 2017 […]
This is further good news for workers in their attempt to regulate the gig economy – something that most governments are not doing. Read here
Last month, Transport for London announced it was withdrawing ride-hailing firm Uber’s license to operate in the capital. Despite complaints over passenger safety and poor treatment of drivers, many Londoners came to Uber’s defence, valuing […]
Imagine an Uber run co-operatively by their drivers, collectively controlling their futures, agreeing their own pay and conditions, with profits shared or re-invested. Why this proposal is viable. Read here
Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]
The tide seems to be turning concerning the Gig Economy in Britain. Workers, supported by the unions, are winning one court case after the other to be recgonised for what they are: employees. Wren-Lewis looks […]
Five years have passed since students at the Economics Department of The University of Manchester began questioning the relevance of their curriculum. Cahal Moran evaluates the progress made. Cahal Moran is co-author of the book […]
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