Jay Wiggan
@JayWiggan
Followers
821
Following
6K
Media
12
Statuses
11K
Senior Lecturer in social policy. Mainly employment & social security. Running, reading, writing. Usually in that order. Retweet not endorsement. Views my own.
Edinburgh
Joined January 2013
Mass unemployment arriving. Time again for a short tme work scheme
autonomy.work
Jay Wiggan uncovers a little known policy of working time reduction overseen by the Thatcher government in the early 1980s.
0
0
7
RT @caitbeaumont: With @RuthDavidson99 & @EveColpus we happy to announce publication of new co-ed collection #EverydayWelfare published by….
0
9
0
Generate videos in just a few seconds. Try Grok Imagine, free for a limited time.
679
3K
9K
RT @johnpringdns: There's a new early day motion in parliament calling for a public inquiry into the years of #DWP deaths. Please ask your….
disabilitynewsservice.com
MPs have joined disabled activists and bereaved families in calling for a public inquiry into the years of deaths linked to the actions of ministers, senior civil servants and advisers at the Depar…
0
194
0
RT @KeonhiS: 🙌NEW PUBLICATION: .Have you ever wondered why many women in early history supported rightist parties that often suppressed w….
0
39
0
RT @_sonjablum: Job alert 🚨 . 🔎(Postdoc) Researcher (full-time).✨Comparative Politics & Public Policy .🌍Bielefeld University.⏳Apply until 3….
0
50
0
RT @LibertonAssoc: We made a video about Liberton! 22 buildings and places in Liberton of historical and community significance. There’s al….
0
3
0
RT @JoeWhelan82: 1. The companion website for my forthcoming book 'Critical Theory for Social Work' has now gone live & includes a full les….
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
0
17
0
RT @PollardTom: Really significant move in terms of the direct impact on child poverty & pressure to scrap the policy nationally. Along wit….
ft.com
SNP administration sets out record healthcare spending as it seeks to double down on policy priorities
0
22
0
RT @thomasforth: The University of Hull is to close its chemistry department. It said student numbers were "so low that these courses are….
bbc.com
The university is also merging some of its schools following a drop in student numbers.
0
1K
0
RT @Dr_KatyJones: Note the difference between @Telegraph reporting on White Paper reforms as "blow to business". and the response of em….
0
2
0
RT @gabriels_geiger: I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level….
0
1K
0
RT @davidtorrance: Because I like a challenge, I’ve spent the past year or so “mapping” (or perhaps summarising) the UK constitution in thi….
0
104
0
RT @GerardoMunck: The Swedish sociologist Walter Korpi has passed away. He is known for elaborating power resource theory, an approach to t….
0
108
0
RT @servomechanica: i want the star wars show where after losing the joint strike starfighter competition the incom corp board of directors….
0
978
0
RT @NeilCarpenter14: ‘Benefits on Trial’ does not aim to make a profit on sales but rather to show to as many people as possible how unfair….
0
11
0
RT @ProfAFinlayson: A 10-15 year counter-hegemonic cultural-political strategy is beginning to payoff; and it will have high long-term divi….
0
2
0
RT @eichhorn_jan: In our new article in @SPSeditors, Dan Kenealy, Daniel Clegg & I show how economic attitudes studies often miss something….
0
3
0
RT @ptcherneva: 🧵The ballot measures last night say a few things about voters’ feelings about the economy. Here is how they played out. PA….
0
405
0
RT @AntonSpisak: People don’t focus on the design of UK fees system because it isn’t a political problem yet. But that will change over tim….
0
44
0
RT @CeridwenHughes: Delighted to see this article published open access in @JSP_Journal. It draws on qualitative interviews with people sub….
0
5
0
RT @Samfr: Councils have essentially become social and children's care funding agencies, which, as most people don't use those services, me….
0
527
0