The crisis is creating dangerous new clusters of economic insecurity – people worried about money now or in the future.
But it has also seen an unprecedented response from the Government (particularly through the job retention ‘furlough’ scheme) trade unions, employers, civil society, and communities.
The RSA is exploring how use the recovery to create a new ‘social contract’ where individual, workers, and families can expect good work and financial security.
Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds MP and the FT’s Martin Sandbu on ideas to improve job quality.
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Alan Lockey Fabian Wallace-Stephens
Alongside the moral urgency of the pandemic, the challenges of growing economic insecurity and labour market transforming technologies require a new social contract for work.
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Anouk Ruhaak
How can the public take control over the vast amounts of data being produced about us? Data trusts can be the trade unions of the data economy.
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Tom Kenyon
An increase in unemployment will make gaining new skills more important than ever. To make re-skilling work during social distancing, we’ll need to learn to recognise learning wherever it happens.
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Andrew Pakes FRSA
We need modernised unions to create a future of ‘good work’.
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Emma Morgante
Winners of an RSA grant to deal with the impact of Covid-19 on the world of work.
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Anthony Painter
We all feel powerless at the moment. We know more economic damage is coming. That’s why now is the time for a Basic Income.