Sidney Webb Articles

Employment law must be changed to protect the army of working people toiling away in today's 'gig economy', writes work and pensions select committee chair Frank Field MP A little over a century ago, Beatrice and Sidney Webb set out the bones of a labour code which...

Trade union and Labour party politics are ever more intertwined – David Coats —Sidney and Beatrice Webb literally wrote the book on trade unionism in the 1890s and identified three elements of what they called the trade union method: collective bargaining, mutual...

Labour should beware the fate of François Hollande, says Philip Collins. Read also Owen Jones' response to How does Labour win a mandate for change, the theme of this Saturday's Progress annual conference Back in 1959, in the days when Labour never looked like winning...