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17 Apr 2013

My new book on activism has now been published

My new book, Digital Revolutions: Activism in the internet age, has now been published by New Internationalist.
24 Mar 2013

Internship exploitation is part of the low-pay and no-pay culture

Research published by the TUC suggests that almost 4 in 5 of 18-34 year olds could not afford to live in London away from home to become even unpaid interns.
24 Mar 2013

Workfare: Hurting the poor, helping the rich

By requiring people to work without pay, the government's workfare schemes are pushing more and more people into poverty and unemployment, says Ekklesia associate Symon Hill. Christian organisations need to campaign against workfare, not participate in it, he argues.
19 Mar 2013

Salvation Army HQ occupied by workfare protestors

The Salvation Army headquarters faced protests when workfare campaigners paid a surprise visit to challenge the church's use of forced unpaid workers.
18 Mar 2013

Salvation Army and YMCA face protests over workfare labour

Several Christian charities are facing protests for participating in "workfare" schemes under which unemployed people must work for free or lose their benefits.
23 Feb 2013

Ian Duncan Smith: smoke and mirrors over welfare reform

As elements of the government’s Welfare Reform programme meet growing opposition, the Secretary of State comes under increasing pressure. Defeat in the Court of Appeal over Workfare and increasingly vocal opposition to the bedroom tax has seen Iain Duncan Smith stridently defending his policies.
18 Feb 2013

IDS and Cait Reilly: false witness and slander?

UK Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has reportedly repeated unfair misrepresentations against a young woman whose court battle exposed the injustice of forcing unemployed people to work for free.
13 Feb 2013

Serious questions about the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Over the past few years the DWP has developed something of a reputation for having scant regard for facts or statistics. It has been accused by the UK Statistics Authority of twisting or misrepresenting figures in order to justify its own policies.
13 Feb 2013

Government faces backlash over unlawful, unpaid, forced work schemes

The government's unpaid, forced work schemes have suffered a setback when Appeal Court judges said yesterday that key elements of them were unlawful.
25 Jun 2012

Workfare to be challenged in High Court

The government’s controversial 'workfare' programme - by which unemployed people are required to work for their benefits – is to face a legal challenge this week.

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