Security at work in an uncertain world

FEPS and Progressive Britain roundtable on the future of work
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30/03/2023
14:00 - 16:30
Berlin, Germany (Expert meeting)
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FEPS and Progressive Britain are partnering up on a major new project on the future of work and the need for social democrats to create and promote a new politics of work

Work is central to most of our lives. However, due to rapid social, economic, and technological changes worldwide, it is changing at a pace that politicians and policymakers need help to keep up with. For the public who bear the brunt of these shifts, the causes behind them seem distant and their leaders powerless. Despite this, parties worldwide have struggled to develop a politics that speaks to the mounting uncertainty and looks to the future with optimism and the prospect of a better life. 

For this roundtable, we will bring together experts and politicians from around Europe to wrest control of the debate back from technocrats and put forward a new politics of work curated by Frederick Harry Pitts of the Centre for Sociodigital Futures at the University of Exeter, and Andrew Pakes, the Deputy General Secretary and Director of Research at Prospect Union.  

Like the previous ones in London and Stockholm, this roundtable will focus on the connections between national security, economic security, and security at work, and the implications for work, workers and industrial strategy of the changing geopolitical picture. We will hear interventions from social democrats and trade unionists from Germany and Europe. This roundtable aims to learn from the German model of industrial relations: how is it evolving in light of today’s challenges? And what can others learn from that?  

Find here the report of the first roundtable in London, ‘Security as means and ends. A Report from the FEPS/Progressive Britain roundtable on the future of work’, and the paper ‘Security at Work in an Uncertain World’ by Harry Pitts and Andrew Pakes, which will serve as the basis for the discussions at this Berlin roundtable. 

The session will be a small, closed roundtable event operating on Chatham House rules. Unattributed (or attributed where agreed) insights from the discussion will feed into the project report published later this year. 

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