The Future of Work blogs and reports

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The impact entrepreneur: building a new platform for economic security in work

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10 Oct 2019

This report describes how a unique partnership between the RSA, Alt/Now and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and the Mastercard Impact Fund took on the challenge of exploring the action needed to combat economic insecurity in the future of work.
Retail therapy: towards a future of good work in retail

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11 Sep 2019

This snapshot paper summarises our enquiry into the future of retail. We explore possible future challenges and opportunities for the sector and outline a set of prototype policy and practice interventions, developed in partnership with major retailers, policy makers and wider civil society.
From precarity to empowerment: women and the future of work

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19 Aug 2019

This paper aims to raise awareness of the ways in which women are bearing the brunt of economic problems in the UK, and how the labour market, at present, is a precarious environment for many women.
Economic insecurity: the case for a 21st century safety net

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15 Aug 2019

There is growing evidence that British workers are economically insecure. This paper aims to deepen understanding of how economic insecurity is experienced by workers, including those in non-standard employment arrangements.
The four futures of work: coping with uncertainty in an age of radical technologies

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22 Mar 2019

Four Futures of Work, from the RSA Future Work Centre, argues that policy-makers should focus more on how automation will transform all work, not just lead to job losses.
Field Guide to the Future of Work: Essay collection

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29 Dec 2018

In this essay collection we present a plurality of perspectives on the future of work. Far from being a manifesto for fatalism, this pamphlet should rather be read as a call to action.
Work in an age of radical technologies

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23 Sep 2018

Benedict Dellot and Fabian Wallace-Stephens introduce the Future Work Centre with a glimpse into what the world of work might look like in the future
Measuring good work

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06 Sep 2018

The final report of the Measuring Job Quality Working Group with Carnegie UK Trust
Venturing to retire

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17 Apr 2018

From carpenters to lawyers, and from beauty therapists to IT consultants, there are now close to 5 million people in the UK who count themselves as self-employed.
Pathways to Universal Basic Income: the case for a Universal Basic Opportunity Fund

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16 Feb 2018

The UBOF represents a stepping stone – to be enacted now – towards Universal Basic Income and a better way of enabling citizens to live meaningful and contributory lives.