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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dissatisfaction with how democracy works has been rising for more than a decade. For the first time since the mid-1970s, a clear majority of people in Britain are dissatisfied with democracy, and ...

Over the past decade, the government has rolled out a series of measures aimed at creating a ‘hostile environment’ for people living in the UK without immigration status. In this report, we assess the ...

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

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 ...