The release of provisional November 2024 GDP figures shows a slight improvement on October, but still low. Yet over the past ...

The volume of global goods flows is back on the rise after a difficult 2023 caused by inflation and interest rate hikes. But ...

Technological change is a good thing. It has brought exponential gains to living standards and is the foundation of modern society. Yet unmanaged technological change has always come with risks and ...

Private sector investment in the UK has fallen to the lowest level among G7 countries – fixing it will not be easy Later this week the chancellor is expected to deliver on Liz Truss’s campaign promise ...

Worker surveillance is as old as work itself, but new technology is making it easier and cheaper than ever. Data suggests that workplace surveillance practices have hugely expanded during the pandemic ...

This is not because we have less staff overall. Rather, it’s because of a growing and sustained mismatch between worker-demand and worker-supply. A vicious cycle emerged during austerity and worsened ...

In this paper we trace the emergence of a poorly understood social challenge and one which symbolises Britain’s broken ‘social settlement’: the continued rise in working poverty since the beginning of ...

The government’s bus services bill focusses on a five-point plan: extending bus franchising powers beyond metro mayors to all ...

We are committed to being open about our funding and have received the highest transparency rating from the ‘Who Funds You?’ project. We work with and are supported by charitable trusts, foundations, ...

In this short briefing, we set out the economic risks for migrant workers posed by the current Coronavirus crisis and propose a number of urgent measures in response, in order to provide a social ...

It causes a damaging impact on individuals, but it also brings a loss of human potential and increased demand for a variety of public services. That in turns bears significant individual and economic ...