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Anthony Rafferty
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Professor and Director of the Work and Equalities Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester University.
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Tickets are going for this great event on Wednesday 16th July held with @ethnicityuk.bsky.social

Please register your attendance via the Eventbrite link below - this event will only be held in-person but we are providing lunch first 🥳

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July 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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workequalities.bsky.social
We are in Geneva this week at the 9th Regulating for Decent Work conference @ilo.org

Institute members are presenting at sessions over the 3 days and attending plenary talks on a variety of topics

Stay tuned for further updates!

#Work #Labour #WorkerRights #Equality #Cooperation #SocialJustice
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July 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Study out of India finds that reducing financial concerns could increase productivity. A cash infusion led to paying off debts followed by becoming more productive at work. Output increased by 7%, and they made fewer costly, unintentional mistakes.

Now imagine UBI.

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Abstract Workers who are worried about their personal finances may find it hard to focus at work. If so, reducing financial concerns could increase productivity. We test this hypothesis in a sample of low-income Indian piece-rate manufacturing workers. We stagger when wages are paid out: some workers are paid earlier and receive a cash infusion while others remain liquidity constrained. The cash infusion leads workers to reduce their financial concerns by immediately paying off debts and buying household essentials. Subsequently, they become more productive at work: their output increases by 7% (0.11 std. dev.), and they make fewer costly, unintentional mistakes. Workers with more cash on hand thus not only work faster but also more attentively, suggesting improved cognition. These effects are concentrated among more financially constrained workers. We argue that mechanisms such as gift exchange or nutrition cannot account for our results. Instead, our findings suggest that financial strain, at least partly through psychological channels, has the potential to reduce earnings exactly when money is most needed.
June 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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digitaluom.bsky.social
Welcome to Digital Futures! We're an interdisciplinary network uniting 1700+ researchers across 30 fields to tackle digital challenges. From AI to urban innovation, we're committed to shaping a smarter, more connected future. Join us on this exciting journey! #Digitalfutures #UoM #researchplatform
Digital futures We're an interdisciplinary network uniting 1700+ researchers across 30 fields to tackle digital challenges. Sign up to be on mailing list https://tinyurl.com/digitalfuturesuom Website: https://www.digitalfutures.manchester.ac.uk/
February 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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jagjitchadha.bsky.social
My Op-Ed in today's @theguardian.com. Let's stop tinkering and adopt a credible economic strategy.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour's economic strategy is outdated. I can fix that | Jagjit Chadha
The last thing we need from Wednesday’s spring statement are incremental changes to tax and spending. Let’s have a clear plan, says Jagjit Chadha of Cambridge University
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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stephenevans.bsky.social
Well worth a read from @andyburnham.bsky.social on how a more joined-up approach can better help people & ultimately save money in a sustainable way too. Agree that a more rounded approach is needed - a challenge GM's Live Well model aims to answer. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Jobcentres should be Live Well centres — this is what that means
Our outdated state is collapsing, but unified local services can get the UK buzzing again
www.thetimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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alliancembs.bsky.social
Work-Net International: A new era for work and employment research 🔎

An event celebrating the launch of @worknetint.bsky.social, a groundbreaking global network advancing research on work and employment, will take place on 21 January.

Learn more: ow.ly/EuEq50UHBah

@workequalities.bsky.social
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January 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Earlier this week, @workequalities.bsky.social, alongside founding member institutes from around the world, proudly celebrated the launch of WorkNet International – a pioneering global network committed to advancing research on work and employment.

@worknetint.bsky.social
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January 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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The conference ended on Wednesday with a captivating talk by Professor Gary Younge @official-uom.bsky.social

Gary's talk was titled "Dive into the role of diversity and representation as routes toward institutional change and equality."

Thank you to everyone who attended and engaged!
January 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Following this, Professor Damian Grimshaw (King’s College London) & Andrea Marinucci (ILO) presented "Insights from the latest ILO Flagship Report on collective bargaining."

This rounded off our insightful plenary talks for the conference.
January 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
mkarolian.bsky.social Matt Karolian @mkarolian.bsky.social · Nov 26
Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Links to credible sources are crucial for meaningful and informed discussions on social media rather than shallow debates. Unlike x.com, Bluesky allows posts with links without throttling them?

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November 27, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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lauradawson.bsky.social
How is Manchester tackling #healthinequalities?
Join #HealthierFutures at #TheUniversityofManchester for our annual lecture on 28 Nov and discover how Cordelle Ofori, Director of #publichealth for #Manchester City Council, and team are #MakingManchesterFairer.
All welcome. Register: lnkd.in/ewe-8nuY
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November 18, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS
The Productivity Institute is hosting an international research conference on Productivity on 4–5 September 2025. The deadline for paper/abstract submissions is 31 January. Find out more: 8812136.hs-sites-eu1.com/call-for-pap...
The Productivity Institute - Productivity Research Conference - 4-5 September 2025 - The University of Manchester
November 19, 2024 at 4:40 PM
If you build it. They will come.
hughster.bsky.social Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · Nov 22
This from Starmer on not joining Bluesky is self-contradictory. A huge number of prominent former X users are now only here, particularly those from his own political base & wider camp. If it's important for a government to be able to communicate with as many people as possible, it should be here.
Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer said this week he has "no plans" to join the social media platform. The Prime Minister told reporters that "at the moment" there are no moves to establish official UK government accounts or a personal one in his name. He said it is "important for a government" to be able to communicate with "as many people as possible".
November 23, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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valepuligna.bsky.social
Great discussion&inputs @ceridwenhughes.bsky.social & other fantastic panelists AUMB @manchesterup.bsky.social 🙏to all to raising awareness around un- underpaid labour UK& around, access to legal counselling, labour markers conditionality,state policy, mgt&labor strategies just some topics ..
ceridwenhughes.bsky.social Ceri Hughes @ceridwenhughes.bsky.social · Nov 21
Looking forward to discussing the issue of unpaid work and what we could do about it with the rest of the panel this afternoon and to hearing from @valepuligna.bsky.social and Mat and Eva #decentwork
workequalities.bsky.social Work and Equalities Institute @workequalities.bsky.social · Nov 12

Join us on the 21 Nov (1-4pm) at AMBS for a workshop by WEI & ResPecTMe. Valeria Pulignano presents her book The Politics of Unpaid Labour + a discussion on the inequality of unpaid work. #UnpaidLabour #PrecariousWork #Inequality #GreaterManchester
🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-politi...
November 22, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Call for papers!! www.ilo.org/rdw2025 9th ILO RDW with WEI co-organisers @workequalities.bsky.social
9th Regulating for Decent Work Conference
www.ilo.org
November 21, 2024 at 2:12 PM