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More people may be in work but full-time positions are getting harder to find. Behind the figures, Alistair Farrow finds that bosses are making employment work for them—not us

David Cameron and his crusading work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith made a mission of “reforming” benefits.

Private firms paid billions to hound disabled and unemployed people could lose their contracts.

Universal Credit will make working families poorer and is mired in worse delays than ever, two new reports reveal.

Unions are treating mass job losses like a done deal. Instead they should learn from last time, argues Simon Basketter

Metals company Caparo Industries announced 452 job cuts on Friday of last week, after going into administration last month. 

As thousands of steel workers face the sack, Tomáš Tengely-Evans argues that we should blame the real culprits and fight back

In 1980 steel bosses announced a series of closures and job cuts to gut the industry. It was the newly elected Tory government’s first major confrontation with organised workers.

Furious steel workers are calling for support in their fight against closures and job losses.

Proposed cuts by Tata Steel and news that Caparo Industries have gone into administration has put 2,900 steel jobs at risk.

The steel industry and the communities built on it are on the brink—and without a real fight we risk going under completely.

Tory minister Matthew Hancock has ramped up the assault on welfare with plans to force young unemployed people into “boot camps”.