There is nothing complacent in the tone of the ILO Global Commission’s report on the future of work. Rejecting business as usual, it sows the seeds of hope for working people. The time has come for a reinvigorated social contract.

Coworking spaces, fab labs, hackerspaces, makerspaces, living labs…new working spaces are thriving and reinventing the way we work by pooling resources and skills.

While the gig economy continues to swallow up secure jobs, independent craftspersons worked on a ‘gig’ basis long before the digital shift.

Women are disproportionately affected by poverty in old age, and many pensioners turn to the food banks of organisations such as Berliner Tafel to make up for their inadequate pensions.

“We were amateurs. We didn’t really know what we were doing. We were just trying to get more information about what is happening in the shipyard and share it with other workers.”

The tax reform, presented by the Executive in September and approved by Congress in early December, led to a three-month strike in the public sector, most notably in education. In the spotlight: the right to strike and the ‘brushing aside’ of social [...]