The politics of currencies
Adam Tooze argues that worrying about the euro exchange rate and a non-existent inflation enemy in Europe must give way to fiscal and monetary demand boosts.
Renovating Europe: a path to green recovery
A green recovery from the pandemic would heal its social scars by quickly creating jobs and fostering inclusion.
Estonia top of the (digital) class
After the summer holidays, schools across Europe have been fretting about if and when they will have to switch back to digital distance learning—but not in Estonia.
Including the precariat
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted how the welfare state of the future must include the growing mass of precarious labour, especially among youth.
Shifting the burden: can Covid-19 do it for women’s unpaid work?
Lockdown conditions have put in question the disproportionate burden of unpaid work placed on women, evidence from Turkey shows.
Hazardous! Occupational safety and health in the care economy during the pandemic
Protecting the health and safety of all workers in the care economy is essential, but for this to become a reality major changes are needed.
The EU needs a new story on race and inclusion
If the sensitising impact of ‘Black Lives Matter’ is not to ebb, a new European narrative and concrete actions are needed.
Workers’ rights: negotiating and co-governing digital systems at work
Algorithmic systems are a new front line for unions as well as a challenge to workers’ rights to autonomy.
Anticipating the Covid-19 restructuring tsunami
There’s time to avoid the carnage of employer-led restructuring following the pandemic—but only if workers and unions set the agenda.
Workers in critical occupations face triple disadvantage
At the height of the pandemic workers in critical occupations enjoyed nightly public applause. Now they need longer-term, concrete appreciation.
Building an electoral coalition: social-democratic parties in western Europe
It is sometimes suggested social-democratic parties are torn between ‘communitarian’ workers and ‘cosmopolitan’ professionals—but it’s not so simple.
Where did Trumpism come from?
A new book turns away from the ‘demand side’ focus of much populism analysis to the ‘supply’ of a plutocratic, ever-more right-wing Republican party.
US economy mired in viral stagnation loop
The travails of the US economy come amid a politics never so poisonous since the civil war.
How digitalisation must be harnessed to save jobs
A framework agreement between the social partners should ensure job security and worker involvement are prioritised across the European Union.
Spain’s fight for a just recovery
The ERTE job-protection scheme to combat the economic effects of the pandemic has left Spain well-prepared to face its aftermath.
The supermarket of citizenship and European democracy
European citizenship must be invested with more political significance—and never treated as a commodity for sale.
Public debt monetisation and the credibility of the ECB
What stops public debt being monetised to avoid the pain of prolonged austerity after the pandemic? An obsolete economic theory of ‘credibility’.