full employment Articles

Labour must transform Britain's workforce if it is to effectively tackle the challenges of the 21st century, writes Chris Carter The challenges of an ageing population are enormous. Skills shortages, healthcare pressures, squeezed public services are but some of the...

When the personal computer revolution started in the early 1980s, Sinclair User magazine ran a cartoon featuring an astronaut, reclining in full space suit regalia, observing a (CRT) computer screen emblazoned with the words, 'WORK, four letter word, no longer in...

'The Conservative belief that there is some law of nature which prevents men from being employed, that it is 'rash' to employ men, and that it is financially ‘sound’ to maintain a tenth of the population in idleness for an indefinite period, is crazily improbable -...

If Labour wins the next election it will inherit a set of challenges on employment and welfare quite different from those it faced in the late 1990s. Increasing the employment rate will be crucial to increasing living standards, given the reduced scope for...