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 Work and the human claim to uniqueness: A contribution to the philosophy of work
Authors: Stephen Overell
Date: December 2008
This new essay explores one of the oldest contentions in the philosophy of work – whether work is ‘intrinsic’ to human beings.
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 Embedding Universities in Knowledge Cities
Authors: Laura Williams, Natalie Turner, Alexandra Jones
Date: December 2008
This report captures the relationships between universities and cities and investigates how these can be capitalised on for mutual benefit in a knowledge economy.
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 Hard Labour: Jobs, unemployment and the recession
Authors: Ian Brinkley, Naomi Clayton, David Coats, Will Hutton, Stephen Overell
Date: November 2008
With the likelihood of a prolonged recession growing, this report urges the government to adopt a bold package of measures to stave off unemployment. It argues that the scale of the crisis justifies some decisive intervention to boost the economy.
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 Life After Longbridge: Three Years on
Authors: David Bailey, Caroline Chapain, Michelle Mahdon and Rebecca Fauth
Date: November 2008
Around 6300 workers lost their jobs at MG Rover in 2005. This report finds that whilst 90% have found further work, two thirds of those have suffered significant pay cuts.
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 Knowledge Economy and Enterprise
Authors: Ian Brinkley
Date: November 2008
The past thirty years have seen a huge change in the structure of employment in the UK. The purpose of this working paper is to explore how much of this phenomenon is driven by SMEs.
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 World-Class Public Services
Date: November 2008
This report highlights the key findings and insights from participants, and concludes with some recommendations about the implications of public sector policy and practice.
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 Measuring Public Value - A competing values approach
Authors: Colin Talbot
Date: October 2008
This paper seeks to address the apparently intractable problem of measuring ‘Public Value’
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 Public Value: The Next Steps in Public Service Reform
Authors: David Coats and Eleanor Passmore
Date: October 2008
The Work Foundation argues in the final report of a major consortium research project that the concept of ‘public value’ offers the most promising set of principles for future reform.
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 The UK and India: the other ‘special relationship’?
Authors: Katerina Rüdiger
Date: September 2008
The debate over India’s entry in the global economy has so far mainly focused on the threat this poses to the competitiveness of the UK’s knowledge economy.
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 ‘Good Work’: Job Quality in a Changing Economy
Authors: David Coats with Rohit Lekhi
Date: September 2008
This paper sets out to explain why the quality of employment should be a matter of profound concern for government, employers and employees.
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