Category: Talks

Why is reducing working hours important to working class wellbeing, and what challenges emerge in trying to get there? We spoke on this topic at a webinar hosted by the European Work-Time network.

We joined a panel at Modern Money Lab’s Anti-Austerity Conference in Bristol about what a Greener New Deal and a wellbeing economy could look like in the UK.

We sat on a panel at Modern Money Lab’s Anti-Austerity Conference, about the political economy of the UK and the damage done by decades of austerity.

We joined a webinar about Aaron Vansintjan and Vijay Kolinjivadi’s book The Sustainability Class, to discuss rejecting lifestyle environmentalism and replacing it with a working class environmentalism.

We spoke at this European Trade Union Institute webinar on the jobs versus climate dilemma, and the role of trade unions and collective bargaining in delivering a just transition.

We featured in a Climate Outreach webinar about what the new Labour government’s climate story should be and how communities should be involved in it.

The second of our two-part panel discussion, about how working class people are organising and mobilising for progressive change amongst themselves.

An edited transcript of our talk at the Alliance of Working Class Academics conference in Glasgow, asking whether degrowth offers emancipation or hegemony for the UK’s working class.

We hosted the first of a two-part panel discussion on the left’s exclusion of working class perspectives, and the class struggle that plays out between the working and middle classes.

Recorded before our launch, this panel with the Working Class Economists Group covers the strained relations between the working and middle class within environmentalism and how they hold back movement building.