Steve Jefferys, in the Director's Introduction, said:
"It is exactly ten years ago since Mary Davis (of the Centre for Trade Union Studies), Chris Coates (of the TUC Library Collections) and myself, a new Research Professor in the University of North London’s Business School, made the case for seed-corn funding to establish a Working Lives Research Institute at what became London Metropolitan University on 1 August 2002. (...) Today, as unemployment is once again rising to levels where it threatens not just to damage the lives of those who are without work, but to add insecurity, stress and fear to the lives of those still working, the relevance of our continuing to research and teach about work and social justice is as important as ever."
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