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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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 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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 How can cities thrive in the changing economy?
Authors: Alexandra Jones, Neil Lee, Laura Williams, Naomi Clayton and Katy Morris
Date: July 2008
The last ten years of economic growth in the UK is a story of the knowledge economy; and one which has played out in our cities
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 Can ‘good work’ keep employees healthy? Evidence from across the EU
Authors: Rebecca Fauth and Alana McVerry
Date: June 2008
This paper examines the relationship between changing occupations and workers’ health and wellbeing
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 Greening Work
Authors: Nick Isles
Date: June 2008
For many people climate change seems such a large problem that it overwhelms them. For what exactly can organisations expect to do?
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 Towards a Global Labour Market?
Authors: Katerina Rudiger
Date: June 2008
The UK will need to attract more highly skilled workers from abroad - both from the European Union and outside it - in order to secure the future of high technology
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