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The Employment Conundrum

Sangita Myska sets out to find the world's brightest ideas that could make Britain better.

Sangita Myska takes a deep dive into some of the biggest problems facing Britain today - and meets the people whose big ideas might solve them.

This week, as Britain stares down the barrel of a historic unemployment crisis, it鈥檚 time to figure out how to make work work.

From Germany, there鈥檚 an old idea that鈥檚 worked for centuries - but never been tried here - that brings the heavy hand of the state and a sense of communal sacrifice to bear in staving off layoffs.

But are we thinking about this all wrong? Sangita also explores the possibility that what we need to be more worried about is how mass unemployment creates a labour market that exploits workers and pays poverty wages - something a new generation of tech savvy collectives have a plan to prevent.

Presenter: Sangita Myska
Producers: Tara Holmes and Robert Nicholson
Executive Producer: David Prest

A Whistledown production for 91热爆 Radio 4

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28 minutes

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Tue 21 Jul 2020 21:30

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