UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C, theguardian.com (Dec 12, 2023) - A major trial of a 4-day week (on same pay) sees "vast majority" of organisations extending or making it permanent, The Daily Alternative (Feb 14, 2023)
- The Work Project: Imagining Transition, UCL IIPP Blog, medium.com/ (May 31, 2022)
Events
Nov 6 - 12, 2023 (Mon - Sun) — Living Wage Week, livingwage.org.uk
Resources
Video
Research
- Work Is Neighbourhood Business, Authors: Simon Duffy and Caroline Richardson, "...the authors argue that basic income provides us with an opportunity to treat work and career development as a natural function of communities and neighbourhoods." 18.07.22, added 16:55, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
- Sustainable income standards: Towards a greener minimum? Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Donald Hirsch et al., December 2011
- Co-production by people outside paid employment, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Findings, June 2006
- The Work Foundation, not-for-profit organisation involved in research, some of which may concern aspects of sustainable livelihood, eg quality of working life, low carbon jobs, etc. W
More resources
- Basic Rights at Work, information from the Trades Union Congress
- The challenges facing Britain's jobless, JRF publishes the facts, October 2010
- Minimum income standards, microsite from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- WorkSmart, information from the Trades Union Congress
Sustainable livelihood UK and the climate emergency
A report commissioned by the 4 Day Week campaign from Platform London, and published in May 2021, found that shifting to a four-day working week without loss of pay could shrink the UK's carbon footprint by 127 million tonnes per year by 2025. This represents a reduction of 21.3%, and is more than the entire carbon footprint of Switzerland....[1]
Petitions
Allow people who make a living from the land to live where they work. bulworthyproject.org.uk
See also
- Sustainable livelihood
- Community and voluntary action UK
- Community resources UK
- Localism UK
- Social inclusion UK
- Towards sustainable economies UK
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
External links
- Camerados
- Growing Livelihoods two year (2014/2015) development partnership project involving the Carnegie UK Trust, Plunkett Foundation and the Land Settlement Association Charitable Trust.
- Results for #HackTheJobCentre from twitter
- The Play Ethic
- Public Concern at Work, whistleblowing charity. Established in 1993, Public Concern at Work advises individuals with whistleblowing dilemmas at work, supports organizations with their whistleblowing arrangements and informs public policy and seeks legislative change. W
- RealFare aims to de-myth our welfare system
- Relational Welfare
Work-life balance
References
