This week we take on ‘social mobility’ and explore what it means for how we live, work and care for each other. Does a focus on individual mobility obscure structural inequalities? And what would a more collective guide for our economy look like?
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This week we talked about:
Rebecca Solnit’s essay on centrism as bias
Sutton Trust’s overview of social mobility’s past, present and future
Jeremy Corbyn’s move from social mobility to social justice
This article on the loss of entry level jobs and the role of ChatGPT
This article on the closure of the Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust
Community Wealth Building in Preston (“the Preston model”)
CLES’s work on Community Wealth Building
Citizen Network’s Neighbourhoods of Care
Our music for the episode is Bobby Bertoli’s Rebirth (thanks Bob x).