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Blockchain platforms can enable good work

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01 Feb 2018

Andy Spence

Despite high-profile issues with digital work platforms, blockchain technology could help us ensure the next generation are fair, effective and promote good work.
The wellbeing gig

Blog

25 Jan 2018

Becky Wright

More than 99% of private companies can now be defined as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this new world of casualisation, how can we create a suitable service to help self-employed people access ways to improve their well-being?
Are British workers thriving, striving, or just about surviving?

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24 Jan 2018

Brhmie Balaram Fabian Wallace-Stephens

In the first report for the RSA’s new Future Work Centre, we reveal seven portraits of modern workers, reflecting on what it’s like to navigate today’s labour market.
Empowering homeless people through creativity

Blog

15 Jan 2018

Marice Cumber

RSA Catalyst funded project Accumulate is seeking a Business Development Manager who is excited by social good.
Sisters of Frida: bringing disabled women together

Blog

09 Jan 2018

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We often get asked why we at the Sisters of Frida campaign for the rights of disabled women. Here are a few reasons why, gathered through our research and covering the topics of employment and pay.
Make it good, make it work

Blog

28 Dec 2017

Matthew Taylor

Could the Government make good work the UK's new year’s resolution?
Understanding modern work in an age of insecurity

Blog

20 Dec 2017

Fabian Wallace-Stephens

In search of a better understanding of modern work, the RSA has produced a segmentation of the labour market, which paints 7 distinct portraits.
Rubber – an orphaned Fair Trade product?

Blog

11 Dec 2017

Martin Kunz

Martin Kunz FRSA, a member of the Fellow-led International Development Network, asks why rubber is not a prime target for the Fairtrade label.
The peculiar story of Margaret Thatcher and Basic Income

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06 Dec 2017

Charlie Young

Most wouldn’t peg Margaret Thatcher for a basic income enthusiast. But, Charlie Young says, she instituted a policy that broke the mould of her traditional ‘small state’ world view
Richard Reeves on The American Class Divide

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04 Dec 2017

Influential political thinker Richard Reeves argues that the ‘opportunity-hoarding’ US upper middle classes are making it much harder for everyone else to climb the economic ladder.