16 research outputs found
Tackling financial exclusion: the case for a community banking partnership approach
How credit unions, money advice agencies, banks and CDFIs can join together to offer a partnership solution.ISBN: 9780902896918Corporate Creators: National Association of Credit Union Workers (NACUW), New Economics Foundation (NEF), Lloyds TSB</p
Profiting from poverty Why debt is big business in Britain
SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:6075. 15007(8) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo
Democracy and Work
As the UK adjusts to life during COVID-19, one of the unexpected features is that it has created a better appreciation of workers in low-skilled, poorly paid and precarious work. For example, the BBC One Panorama programme ‘Lockdown UK’ referred to hospital cleaners and supermarket workers as ‘minimum wage heroes’¹ and food delivery drivers were added to the government’s list of key workers. Yet as Jason Moyer-Lee of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain points out, although these workers are doing essential jobs, they have the least rights and little or no job security.
