Monday, 9 September 2019 at 5:00 pm – Monday, 9 September 2019 at 7:00 pm

In-work poverty: low pay, productivity and gender

Date: Monday 9th September 2019

Time: 5pm - 7pm

Location: Geoffrey Manton, Rosamund Street West, Manchester, M15 6BH

Tickets: Free - Available on Eventbrite

Ashwin Kumar
Professor of Social Policy │ Manchester Metropolitan University

The UK’s employment rate is at an historic high, but so is in-work poverty.
Twenty years ago, the solution to poverty used to be thought of as getting people into work; today we have an epidemic of low-paid work with little chance of progression.

In this free seminar Ashwin will look at the current relationship between the UK’s productivity and low-pay and explore the role of gender.

Ashwin has a wealth of experience in this field and is a respected commentator on social policy and appears regularly on TV and in print discussing productivity, poverty, working conditions for people on low wages, housing and household incomes.

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