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COVID-19 lockdown and the needs of garment workers in Bangalore, India

COVID-19 lockdown and the needs of garment workers in Bangalore, India

Posted on 20 October 2020 by Jean Jenkins

In our latest post, Professor Jean Jenkins explains the work she has been undertaken together with colleagues as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded Operationalising Labour Rights […]

Trade unionism and the concrete universal

Trade unionism and the concrete universal

Posted on 31 January 2019 by Jonathan Preminger

Trade unions combine a concrete universalism with collective action and individual agency. In our latest blog, Dr Jonathan Preminger outlines how we might (re-) discover the radical potential of trade […]

ShareAction – Using Investment to Promote the Living Wage

ShareAction – Using Investment to Promote the Living Wage

Posted on 18 September 2018 by Edmund Heery

In our latest post, Professor Ed Heery explains one of the defining features of the UK’s Living Wage campaign – its emergence from civil society. The Living Wage has been […]