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Issue 29 // 16th October 2024
Annie Harper and Yolanda Herring show how people on disability benefits face contradictions: they must prove total inability to work, enduring stigma and fraud checks, while being pressured to return to work, reflecting a belief that full citizenship depends on 'productive' employment. Read more of the article
Issue 29 // 16th October 2024
Merryl Eaton stresses that expanding asset limits and enacting a child tax credit can ease the benefit cliff and improve life for hardworking citizens, allowing them to work without being penalised. Read more of the article
Issue 29 // 16th October 2024
Nicole Dayaram suggests if debt advisors want to improve the quality of advice and ensure good outcomes for clients, they need to invest in advisers and provide them with the right working conditions to ensure they stay. Read more of the article
Issue 29 // 16th October 2024
Daphne Hall suggests that Labour's proposals offer a holistic approach to employment support, shifting the DWP's role toward helping people. However, issues like the NHS and adult social care, which impact the nation's health, also need urgent attention. Read more of the article
Issue 29 // 16th October 2024
Megan Evans explains that a capitalist economy relies on having a readily available workforce for low-wage, part-time jobs without benefits. These workers are kept afloat by a minimal social safety net when they are no longer needed by the market. Read more of the article
Issue 29 // 16th October 2024
People with serious mental illnesses (SMI) face unemployment rates of 75-85% and rely on inadequate benefits. Kendall Atterbury argues that as automation reduces job opportunities, stigma against those with psychiatric disabilities increases, highlighting the need to address the structural barriers they face in employment. Read more of the article
Issue 29 // 16th October 2024
Niall Cooper and Jane Perry emphasise the importance of including individuals with lived experience in reforming the employment support system to effectively address economic inactivity and enhance welfare policies. Read more of the article
Issue 28 // 23rd July 2024
At the start of a new government, the latest issue of the Futures of Work blog considers what Labour can or should do to address the myriad problems they have inherited, and turn their slogan of change into actions both for those in work and those unable to work. Read more of the article
Issue 28 // 23rd July 2024
On the Futures of Work blog, Annie Irvine asks whether a focus on mental health as a cause of economic inactivity is too narrow. We need a more holistic approach to assessing capacity for work which considers broader social and structural factors. Read more of the article
Issue 28 // 23rd July 2024
On the Futures of Work blog, Ellie Farmahan describes the success of Living Wage UK in putting £3 billion into the pockets of workers over the last 20 years, and what still needs to be done to ensure more workers have security and enough to live on. Read more of the article
