Futures of Work ~ Posts

Editorial

By Duncan U Fisher and Vanessa Beck

Issue 32 // 30th July 2025

This issue explores how continuity and change shape caring relationships, revealing a gap between the ideal of consistent care and the often fragmented realities faced by care providers and recipients across diverse settings. Read more of the article

Editorial: Spotlight on temporary migration in Canada

By Blandine Emilien

Issue 31 // 15th April 2025

Canada’s temporary migration system fosters systemic worker vulnerability and modern slavery risks by tying migrants’ legal status to employer-specific permits and denying clear paths to permanent residence. Read more of the article

Editorial: PhD students and the Futures of Work

By Chris Pesterfield, Giorgos Gouzoulis, Vanessa Beck and Blandine Emilien

Issue 30 // 14th January 2025

This issue features five articles by PhD students, showing that while the future of work remains uncertain, the Futures of Work scholarship is thriving and hopeful. Read more of the article

Issue 29: Editorial

By Richard Machin and Annie Harper

Issue 29 // 16th October 2024

In the new issue of Futures of Work, the authors address the intersections between employment, welfare systems, poverty and debt. Read more of the article

ISSUE 28: Labour’s ‘Change’ – from slogan to action

By Chris Pesterfield Giorgos Gouzoulis and Vanessa Beck

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 27: Editorial

By Vanessa Beck, Chris Pesterfield and Giorgos Gouzoulis

Issue 27 // 29th April 2024

As the public sector and welfare state continue to contract, the latest issue of the Futures of Work blog explores how processes of economic deregulation have impacted working conditions over the last decades. Read more of the article

Issue 25: Editorial

By Vanessa Beck Giorgos Gouzoulis and Chris Pesterfield

Issue 25 // 21st November 2023

The articles in Issue 25 address a range of different forms of labour market inequalities, with gender a particular focus in most of the pieces. Read more of the article

New starts, old problems

By Chris Pesterfield, Giorgos Gouzoulis and Vanessa Beck

12th September 2023

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