Hilary Cottam: The Work We Need

For decades, work has been debated and discussed as a narrow economic category. Instead, Hilary Cottam presents work as a cultural force at the heart of good lives, strong communities and a sense of a shared national destiny. She explores how we can shape this force to meet technological change, our ecological crisis and the challenges of the world’s deep injustices.

Drawing on a fascinating range of sources – historians, trade unionists, business leaders, philosophers and hours of her imaginative workshops with workers – she poses a critical question: how can we redesign work?

In conversation with author and business leader Margaret Heffernan, Hilary shares ideas for how we could work differently and live better.

Speaker biography: Hilary Cottam is an internationally acclaimed social activist whose work in Britain and with communities around the world has focused on collaborative and affordable solutions to some of the greatest social challenges of our time. Her first book, Radical Help, was hailed as ‘mind-shifting’ by David Brooks in the New York Times and has been translated internationally. Awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to the welfare state, Hilary has been recognised by Fast Company in the US for her pioneering creativity and by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. Hilary’s TED talk has had close to a million views. Her latest book is The Work We Need: https://geni.us/TheWorkWeNeed

This event is hosted by the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR).

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