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John Evans

John Evans is a visiting fellow at the University of Greenwich and academic visitor at St Peter’s College, Oxford University. Until 2017 he was general secretary of the Paris-based Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD.

A global economy in uncharted waters

John Evans

Governments must learn from the financial crisis if they are not to repeat the errors of the recovery from it.

Inequality and unions—Brexit, Trump and ‘yellow vests’

John Evans

Those on modest incomes used to compare themselves only with those around them, muting their anger. Globalisation has raised awareness of the inequality it has fostered but has weakened the unions best placed to fight it—with inchoate rage the result.