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Going up a gear
The UK needs productivity growth to improve living standards. Without productivity growth, we will be economically vulnerable to recessions or stagnation, and we will likely see widening inequality, lower incomes, a smaller tax base, and, as a result, poorer health, lower educational attainment, and lower life satisfaction.
But it must be ‘good’ productivity growth, argues Luke Raikes, the Fabian Society's deputy general secretary. We must avoid productivity gains that come at a high social cost: shedding jobs, reducing working conditions, or raising living costs in overheating regions. Poorly constructed cuts to taxes and regulation, supposedly to ‘unleash growth’, can in fact mean insecurity for businesses and workers, and a smaller tax base to fund public services. This can be self-defeating, ultimately undermining long-term productivity by eroding the foundations on which any modern economy rests.
This paper synthesises the research in this field as a basis for a set of practical recommendations to boost productivity while raising living standards, protecting the environment, and unlocking resources for public services and infrastructure.
Cost Cutters
This report sets out how the UK can address the poverty premium and make markets work for low-income families. It sets out the scale of the poverty premium before looking at the reasons why markets, regulators and the government fail families. We identify a number of recommendations to help people to keep more of their money in their pockets and rebuild financial security for all consumers.
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Fabian Society senior researcher Sasjkia Otto looks at the roots of pre-retirement poverty and presents a strategy to address it.
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From the archive: Keir Starmer sets out his approach to public service reforms in our 2016 edited collection, Future Left
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This edition of the Fabian Review celebrates 140 years of Fabianism, featuring Keir Starmer MP, Sadiq Khan, Stella Creasy MP, Anas Sarwar MSP, and many more. In conversation with Kate Murray, Fabian general secretaries past and present discuss John Smith, splits, and the weight of history.
Caring for Carers
Fabian Society researcher Eloise Sacares and general secretary Andrew Harrop present a series of policy options for the employment and financial protections of unpaid carers.
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This report identifies 150 non-Labour seats on the new boundaries which will likely make up a very high proportion of the constituencies that Labour will target at the next election.
Download nowWinter 2023
This edition of the Fabian Review takes a look at the foreign policy challenges Labour could face, featuring Stella Creasy MP, Nick Westcott, Toni Haastrup and Victoria Honeyman. In conversation with Iggy Wood, Alf Dubs argues the current government's hostility towards refugees is unprecedented.
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Anneliese Dodds MP explains how Labour's ambitious agenda to tackle inequality will benefit us all.
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Fabian Society researcher Eloise Sacares makes the case for climate adaptation, identifying three key areas of life which will be severely impacted by climate change and in which practical changes in government policy could make a significant difference.
Download nowThe Final Furlong
In spite of Labour's extremely strong polling numbers over the past year, there has been continuing media speculation about a hung parliament. The Fabian Society undertook research during summer 2023 to understand voters’ preferred election outcomes and their reactions to the prospect of a hung parliament. Our research suggests that this narrative is outdated: the British public want a single party majority government, and many will vote for Labour to deliver it.
Download nowBy the People, With the People
In this pamphlet, Charlotte Augst and Paul Corrigan set out to identify the factors that have scuppered progress on health system reform, and refine the calls for change into two simple questions. First, how can the NHS work with people to keep them healthy? Second, how can the NHS strengthen the contribution people themselves can make to their health and healthcare once they have acquired an illness or an impairment?
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Michael Jacobs, Robert Calvert Jump, Jo Michell and Frank van Lerven scrutinise the lack of cooperation between the UK government and the Bank of England, and propose a new Economic Policy Coordinating Committee to help achieve the multiple objectives towards which governments today must aim.
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Fabian Society senior researcher Sasjkia Otto asks what we can learn from Germany about work-life balance.
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Fabian Society research director Luke Raikes sets out to make a progressive case for devolving public spending, raising important questions about how public money can be used more effectively to deliver policy objectives.
Download nowAutumn 2023
This edition of the Fabian Review takes a look at what Britain could look like after 13 years of Labour government, with contributions from Charles Clarke, Anas Sarwar MSP, Catherine West MP and more. Plus, Andy Burnham explains how a new phase of devolution could transform the country in conversation with Kate Murray.
Download nowPlans for Power
This pamphlet is a compilation of some of the most important ideas developed and championed by the Fabian Society in recent years. It is a ‘mixtape’ of the best proposals, from early years to pensions and from the future of work to public service reform.
Download nowLeading the way
A collection of policy ideas for Labour from policymakers and experts from around Europe.
Download nowSummer 2023
This edition of the Fabian Review focuses on how to make Britain a better place to grow up in, with contributions from Lindsey Macmillan and Jake Anders, Tommy Gale, Ben Cooper, and Sylvia McNamara. Plus, John Healey MP stakes out Labour’s defence credentials in conversation with Iggy Wood.
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Despite their contributions to our economy and society, self-employed workers get a raw deal. This manifesto proposes policies to improve working conditions, financial security, and business support for the self-employed and microbusinesses.
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