By Rethinking Poverty
25 Feb 2022
The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales and think-tank Autonomy this month published their new report, A Future Fit For Wales: The roadmap to a shorter working week. It characterises...
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By Rebekah Diski, Alex Chapman & Chaitanya Kumar
06 Oct 2021
The UK faces an uneven decarbonisation challenge, with some regions and industries under particular pressure to reduce emissions. Many of the places and communities most acutely affected are also...
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By Emmanuelle Katshila
31 Aug 2021
‘The four-day working week is a far more civilised way to go. It is part of our future, it is unavoidable, it is the way we have to go.’...
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By Rethinking Poverty
06 May 2021
As the UK takes further steps towards ending the restrictions of lockdown, April’s Talking Points looks at what the pandemic has meant for the future of work and what... Read More
By Aidan Harper
29 Jan 2020
Are we ‘owed’ more leisure time? We live in an economy which systematically extracts from us the time we have: in exchange for wages we give employers labour, effort, and... Read More
By Anupam Nanda
22 Nov 2019
The idea of a four-day working week is gaining traction. Recently, several high-profile companies have trialled reduced hours. And in the UK, the Labour Party has pledged a 32-hour four day work... Read More
19 Sep 2019
A new report, How to achieve shorter working hours, commissioned by the Labour Party and written by Lord Skidelsky, was published last week. It argues that ‘a reduction in... Read More
