Sustainable livelihood UK news

• ‘We can’t believe you would just trust us’: why social assistance shouldn’t come with strings attached, theconversation.com (Jan 02, 2025)

• Getting Britain to work without blaming ‘scroungers’ – can Starmer change the narrative?, theconversation.com (Nov 29, 2024)
• The UK wants to guarantee work or training for all young people – first it needs good jobs, theconversation.com (Nov 28, 2024)
• Three ways the UK can get people working again – without punishing them, theconversation.com (Nov 28, 2024)
• There’s many that make a claim for the stabilising and liberating effect of basic income. Landworkers and farmers have one of the best cases, Daily Alternative (Oct 10, 2024)
• Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work, survey suggests, theguardian.com (Aug 16, 2024)

• UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C, theguardian.com (Dec 12, 2023)
• A major trial of a 4-day week (on same pay) sees "vast majority" of organisations extending or making it permanent, The Daily Alternative (Feb 14, 2023)

• The Work Project: Imagining Transition, UCL IIPP Blog, medium.com/ (May 31, 2022)
• We're advancing towards a 4-day week - from above (government prototypes) and below (individuals and companies), The Alternative UK (Feb 15, 2022)

• 'Pilot universal basic income and shorter working weeks in Wales', Oct 19, 2020...^[1]

Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis, May 22, 2019...^[2]

• A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work, Aditya Chakrabortty, Nov 1, 2017...^[3]
• Bread Funds: A pioneering model of self-organising among the self-employed, Apr 25, 2017...^[4]
• The case for a three-day weekend is clear – let's start planning now, Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley, Apr 4, 2017...^[5]

References

• Preparing for the future of work is where a real Labour revival starts, Dec 27^[1]
• What it will take to truly transform the 'gig economy', Oct 31^[2]
• The fetishisation of work is making us miserable. Let's learn to live again, Anna Coote, Oct 26^[3]
• The future of work as a building block of change, Oct 23^[4]
• Meet the real Daniel Blakes – video, Oct 21^[5]

References

• We need a human resource revolution, December 11, 2015...^[1]
• Group of student legal volunteers overturn 95% of DWP 'fit to work' decisions they take on, Sep 2, 2015...^[2]
• Strivers and skivers? We're all in this together, Elena Blackmore, April 13, 2015...^[3]
• Working isn't working, Matthew Taylor, October 29, 2013...^[4]

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