| Summary/Abstract |
If justice and prosperity are to go hand in hand, a new social settlement in the labour market is urgently needed. The IPPR proposals provide a good start that could begin to transform the UK labour market, particularly by reâestablishing collective regulation. However, the programme is incomplete. Welfare reform is not addressed yet Universal Credit can be expected to have negative impacts on the labour market. Most importantly the report, despite offering some useful measures for gender equality, does not seize the political moment, as concerns rise over job displacement, to argue for shorter working time that could help to transform the gender division of paid and unpaid work.
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