Status: ongoing

Researchers involved: whole team

Length: 1-3 years

A three-year, collaborative research, consultation and policy project to envisage and build towards the achievement of good work and good working lives across the next three decades.

Work as we know it stands at a crossroads, both in the short-term (Covid) and in the longer-term (e.g. ecological collapse). Other trends of automation, labour market polarisation and decline in worker voice are also set to worsen in the absence of significant intervention. Yet, facing these crises also represents an opportunity for significant change and a better future for workers.

Our advanced data research, analysis and policy proposals, combined with a thorough consultation process with a range of actors will provide the foundations for interventions that lead to a better world of work.

Supported by: Alex Ferry Foundation

Status: ongoing

Researchers involved: –

Length: –

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Status: ongoing

Researchers involved: Phil Jones

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Status: ongoing

Researchers involved: –

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Status: ongoing

Researchers involved: Common Knowledge and Autonomy team

Length: 12 months

Understanding your workplace is a key step in the journey towards changing it. This toolkit is a collection of approaches, step-by-step guides and historical examples of worker organising. You can use these tools to create knowledge about your own work, power hierarchies, class relations, and capitalism more broadly, all from your own perspective. The goal is not just to describe your working conditions, but ultimately to transform them. 

Supported by: the Amiel Melburn Trust

Status: ongoing

Researchers involved: Rob Jump, Will Stronge, Julian Siravo

Length: 12 months

As the discussion around a shorter working week gathers pace amongst social movements, economists and politicians, more robust data and analysis is required to inform the debate – beyond speculation and beyond international and historical comparisons. This project seeks to deploy a hypothetical scenario – a four-day week across industries and regions in the UK – in order to ‘stress test’ working time reductions as policy. With these data, robust sectoral and national policy proposals will be produced – moving the debate on by answering not just why shorting working hours are desirable, but how such a situation could be achieved concretely.

Supported by: the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation