Yesterday's STUC conference Decent Work, Dignified Lives attended by 200 people from Scotland's trade unions, NGO's, civic organisations and Government was a great success with a number of fascinating and challenging presentations delivered through the course of the day.
Here's link to the presentations (will be updated in due course):
Plenary sessions
Grahame Smith, STUC General Secretary speech to conference
First Minister announces creation of Fair Work Convention
A New Development Model for Scotland - Karel Williams and Sukhdev Johal, Centre for Socio-Cultural Change, Manchester University
Basic Income by Frances Coppola
Scottish Labour Market in 11 charts - Stephen Boyd, STUC
Workshops
Workshop 1: Inequality in Scotland - David Bell and David Eiser, Stirling University
Workshop 2: Reindustrialisation
Graeme Roy, Senior Economic Adviser, Scottish Government
Stephen Boyd, STUC
Workshop 3: Regional Economic Development - Mike Danson, Heriot-Watt University
Workshop 4: the Living Wage
Implementing the Living Wage - Rachel McEwen, Scottish and Southern Energy
Living Wage: how it is calculated and what difference it makes - Jeanette Findlay, University of Glasgow
Further Reading
The End of the Experiment: from competition to the Foundational Economy, Williams, Johal et al, 2014
The Foundational Economy: Rethinking Industrial Policy, Bowman, Froud, Johal and Williams
How to Build a Fairer City, Johal, Williams, Salento, Engelen
British Industrial Policy remains plagued by the antidote fallacy, Williams
Three posts on Basic Income, Frances Coppola
Pieria - Basic Income
Inequality in Scotland: trends, drivers and implications for the independence debate, Bell and Eiser
Constitutional Change and Inequality in Scotland, Comerford and Eiser
Reindustrialising Scotland, Scottish Government
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