Touchstone Pamphlets

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A series of research reports designed to provoke debate, develop new ideas and influence longer-term policy thinking in government, parliament and amongst unions. They are not statements of TUC policy but instead are designed to inform and stimulate debate on the most pressing issues facing British policymakers.

#12. Making a Contribution - Social security for the future

#11. Can Housing Work for Workers?

#10. Britain's Livelihood Crisis

#9. The Red Tape Delusion: Why deregulation won’t solve the jobs crisis

#8. The Road to Recovery: How effective unions can help rebuild the economy

#7. Speaking up for Public Services: The vital role of the Public Sector in and beyond the recession

#6. Life in the Middle: The Untold Story of Britain's Average Earners

#5. Unlocking Green Enterprise: A Low-Carbon Strategy for the UK Economy

#4. Do the Super-Rich Matter?

#3. A Green and Fair Future: For a Just Transition to a Low Carbon Economy

#2. Rethinking Public Service Reform - The ‘Public Value' Alternative

#1. The Missing Billions: The UK Tax Gap

Touchstone Extras #8. Where Have All the Wages Gone? Lost pay and profits outside financial services

Touchstone Extras #7. Generation Lost: Youth unemployment and the youth labour market

Touchstone Extras #6. All in this Together?

Touchstone Extras #5. Fairness and Prosperity

Touchstone Extras #4. In Sickness and in Health?: Good work - and how to achieve it

Touchstone Extras #3. Getting it in Proportion: Trade unions and electoral reform

Touchstone Extras #2. Stemming the Flood? - Assessing the UK Government's policy on tax avoidance since Budget 2008

Touchstone Extras #1. Unfair to Middling: How middle income Britain's shrinking wages fuelled the crash and threaten recovery

 

 

The most recent documents available on this subject are:

Third Time Lucky: Building a Progressive Pensions Consensus

Touchstone Extra pamphlet on pensions policy. Written by Nigel Stanley and Craig Berry.

15 May 2013
Touchstone Extras - Where Have All the Wages Gone? Lost pay and profits outside financial services

This is a report about the share of wages in national income (“the wage share”) in the UK. Over the last 35 years there has been a substantial shift from wages to profits in the UK economy. Data from the Office for National Statistics ...

18 December 2012
Rising City profits have hit wages, business investment and non-financial firms

Rising financial profits have reduced workers' wages and squeezed profits across the rest of the economy, according to a new TUC report published today (Monday).

10 December 2012
Touchstone Extras - Generation Lost: Youth unemployment and the youth labour market

The experience of unemployment can be particularly damaging for young people, as evidence shows that those who experience prolonged worklessness when they are young are likely to suffer lifelong effects on both earnings and employment prospects. F...

PDF version available for download
1 March 2012
Government programmes only enough to support one in 10 unemployed young people

 

The government must be far more ambitious in its attempts to tackle the growing youth unemployment crisis, says a new TUC report published today (Thursday).

1 March 2012
Touchstone Extras - All in this Together?

An audit of the impact of the downturn on the workforce by Stewart Lansley.

PDF version available for download
30 January 2012



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