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Welcome to the Living Wage Foundation Podcast, where we bring you inspiring stories from the heart of the Living Wage movement. Join us as we delve into the journeys of remarkable Living Wage Employers who are championing fair pay and secure working hours and pensions, so we can all meet our everyday needs now and in the future. Each episode, we sit down with leaders from across our movement of over 15,000 organisations who share their insights, challenges, and triumphs in creating workplaces where everyone can thrive. Whether you're a business owner, employee, or advocate for economic justice...

We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Rand said of this book: "It is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write."

Field has spent his adult life fighting against poverty in Britain, through parliament and through his strong personal influence. Poverty for him has injustice at its root and as he explains in this book, he has found allies on all sides of the political spectrum. He was appointed by Tony Blair to be the Secretary of State for Pensions, but the reforms he advocated were so radical and essentially just, that Tony Blair could not contemplate them and Field stood down. Previously he had been Chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee under John Major.

"Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age," (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon...