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The New Review

Back Issues

Back issues are available for £6 each from the Low Pay Unit office.

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Comment (May/June 2001)
Life Beyond the Riots: ethnic minority employment (May/June 2001)
Newsbrief - the Adviceline case file (Nov/Dec 2001)

The New Review No 72

Nov/Dec 2001

  • The enforcers: making the minimum wage stick
  • Supermarket labour market: pay in the retail sector
  • The Universal Bank: will it tackle social exclusion?
  • Routes to Resolution: the Goverment's consultation paper
  • Where next for Tax Credits: the LPU's view of the Government's new model

The New Review No 71

Sept/Oct 2001

  • Inequality continues to rise: analysis of HBAI survey
  • A credit to its members: credit unions and financial exclusion
  • Out of school, out of pocket: child labour back in the news
  • Low pay in London's East End: recent report by Telco
  • Learning while you're earning: low paid workers and workbased training
  • Call centres shaping up: pay and conditions
  • Newsbrief and Minimum Wage poster

The New Review No 70

July/August 2001

  • Extending tax credits
  • Poor young things: NMW youth rate update
  • Life beyond the riots: examination of ethnic minority employment
  • Youth, jobs and the minimum wage: study of young people in hospitality and retail sectors
  • Getting organised: the benefits of unionisation for the lowest paid
  • Banking on tax credits: their role in improving financial inclusion
  • Newsbrief and Tax and NI 2001 poster

The New Review No 69

May/June 2001

  • Who's afraid of the minimum wage: review of parties' NMW policies
  • A balancing act between flexibility and job security: EU directive on fixed term working
  • Ironing out inequality: are taxes and benefits redistributing wealth
  • Life on a low income: analysis of new government report
  • Just pay: the Equal Pay Task Force report
  • Bridge the gap: LPU's recommendations on achieving equal pay
  • Newsbrief and Tax and NI 2001 poster

The New Review No 68

March/April 2001

  • Budget smiles on families: Analysis of Budget 2000
  • Getting credit for savings: the new pension credit
  • A new way of working: an employment agency making a difference
  • The price of good health: can you afford to be healthy on the minimum wage?
  • Who's your family friend?: Hartley Dean of the University of Luton examines the impact of family friendly policies on low-paid workers
  • Analysis of the New Earnings Survey 2000 and Social Trends 2001
  • Newsbrief and Tax and NI 2001 poster

The New Review No 67

Jan/Feb 2001

  • Tops up: TNR examines proposals to extend credits
  • The NMW and the hospitality and clothing industries: an examination by researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Housing for keyworkers
  • StayWarm: new ways for low-income households to afford heating
  • Job quality: Mary Gregory from Oxford University outlines what's needed
  • Newsbrief and Parental Rights Tax poster

The New Review No 66

November/December 2000

  • One small step for woman (and man) kind: analysis of the New Earnings Survey 2000
  • Pocket money pay for childminders
  • LPU's submission to the Low Pay Commission
  • Pension Credit briefing
  • Tax and benefits: Abigail McKnight of CASE asks how the system could make a difference to lifetime poverty
  • Newsbrief and In-work benefits 2001 poster

The New Review No 65

September/October 2000

  • Households on the edge: analysis of the Households Below Average Income survey
  • Education - a route out of poverty: results of a new ADT Fourth World report
  • School's out - kids' clubs open: why the push for more out-of-school clubs must go on
  • Low pay around Britain: is it helping to create jobs?
  • Sidelined: young adults' access to services
  • Newsbrief and Your right to representation poster

The New Review No 64

July/August 2000

  • In defence of a higher rate: US research supports the case for a rise in minimum wage
  • Child poverty in the rich world: analysis of new UNICEF report
  • A billion dollars? It's just a bonus: the case for a global maximum wage
  • Home alone, and no minimum wage: report on the National Homeworking survey
  • Mind the gap: disability, opportunity and employment - new report from RADAR
  • Newsbrief and Farmworkers' pay 2000 - poster

The New Review No 63

May/June 2000

  • Own Transport Preferred: transport and social exclusion in the north-east
  • Flat broke: can you afford a home in London
  • No problem: the leisure industry and the minimum wage
  • A century of social change: analysis of the latest Social Trends
  • New Labour's enabling state: the government's vision for Britain
  • Working for Wales: Objective 1 funding from the EU
  • Newsbrief and New rights for part-time workers poster

The New Review No 62

Mar/Apr 2000

  • Work in progress: the 2000 budget
  • Age rage: the cost of being young
  • Uprating the minimum wage - how it's done in Europe
  • Helping lone parents to work
  • Of mutual benefit: a call for a statement of rights for refugees
  • Newsbrief and Tax and NI/In-work benefits 2000 posters

The New Review No 61

Jan/Feb 2000

  • Building a better Britain: pre-budget submission
  • Time off for good behaviour: paid holidays
  • How was it for you? Monitoring the minimum wage
  • Work for those who can: is the New Deal delivering?
  • Europe for people not banks: Solidar's vision for the EU
  • Rhetoric and reality: employers' reaction to the minimum wage
  • In-work benefits poster


The New Review No 60

Nov/Dec 1999

  • It's good news - NES analysis
  • The baby tax credit
  • Mind the gap: pay differentials
  • Valuing women
  • The wealth of the nation
  • Parental leave poster

The New Review No 59

Sept/Oct 1999

  • Why £3.60? Setting the minimum wage
  • The government's first poverty audit
  • Faith, hope and charities: the voluntary sector
  • Monitoring the NMW
  • Changes to your contract poster

The New Review No 58

July/Aug 1999

  • OECD and UN reports on the relationship between labour market regulation and job creation
  • Top salaries: government paper
  • Ending child poverty
  • Pay on the farm poster
  • Family credit analysis

The New Review No 57

May/June 1999

  • London's burning issue: pay, poverty and inequality
  • Flexible working in Europe
  • The minimum wage in the South west
  • Free school meals campaign
  • Income and wealth in Cambridge
  • Tax and NI 1999 poster

The New Review No 56

Mar/Apr 1999

  • Budget analysis
  • Family Expenditure Survey Review
  • Welcome the new minimum wage
  • New poverty indicators
  • Ten worst and ten best paid jobs in Britain
  • Minimum Wage poster

The New Review No 55

Jan/Feb 1999

  • Minimum wage in the North East
  • Pensions
  • Decency threshold figures
  • Food poverty
  • FBU report: what the minimum wage will buy
  • Making work pay
  • In-work benefits 1999 poster

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