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CLASS or Centre for Labour and Social Studies is leading left think tank working to ensure policy is on the side of everyday people. Originating in the trade union movement, CLASS has an authentic connection to working people and a unique insight into the challenges society faces.[1]
Staff
- Ellie Mae O'Hagan Director
- Adam Almeida Research Analyst
- Ayesha Baloch Public Affairs Officer
- Raquel Jesse Research Officer
- Paddy Bettington Research Officer
Management
Officers
- Laura Pidcock President and Chair of CLASS
- Geoff Shears Vice-Chair of CLASS
- Andrew Towers Vice-Chair of CLASS
Management Committee
- Sian Jones
- Andrew Murray
- Professor Keith Ewing
- Carolyn Jones
- Doug Nicholls
- Kevin Courtney
- Chris Kitchen
- Ronnie Draper
- John Earls
- Neil Foster
- Lord John Hendy QC
- Liane Groves
- Dave Watson
- Dave Gould
- Matt Waddup
National Advisory Panel
Circa 2018:
- Diane Abbott MP Shadow Home Secretary
- Dr Ha-Joon Chang University of Cambridge
- Christine Cooper Strathclyde University
- Manuel Cortes TSSA
- Professor Danny Dorling Oxford University
- Dr Jason Arday Durham University
- Ronnie Draper BFAWU
- Jack Dromey MP Shadow Pensions Minister
- Sally Hunt UCU
- Will Hutton The Observer and Oxford University
- Joy Johnson Journalist and political commentator
- Owen Jones The Guardian
- Chris Kitchen National Union of Mineworkers
- Stewart Lansley Visiting Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, the University of Bristol.
- Professor Costas Lapavitsas SOAS
- Ian Lavery MP Trade Union Group of MPs
- Professor Ruth Lister Loughborough University
- Kevin Maguire The Mirror and New Statesman
- Professor Marj Mayo Goldsmiths University of London
- Len McCluskey Unite the Union
- Professor Jonathan Michie University of Oxford
- Richard Murphy Tax Research UK
- James Murray Deputy Mayor, Housing and Residential Development
- Lisa Nandy MP Labour MP for Wigan
- Doug Nicholls GFTU
- Frances O'Grady TUC
- Ann Pettifor PRIME: Policy Research in Macroeconomics
- Professor Kate Pickett University of York and The Equality Trust
- Professor Allyson Pollock Queen Mary, University of London
- Professor Diane Reay Cambridge University
- Professor Roger Seifert University of Wolverhampton Business School
- Mark Serwotka PCS
- Professor Prem Sikka University of Essex
- Stefan Stern Author
- Polly Toynbee The Guardian
- Jon Trickett MP Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)
- Hilary Wainwright Red Pepper and New Politics Project
- Dave Ward CWU
- Mick Whelan ASLEF
- Professor Richard Wilkinson The Equality Trust
- Zoe Williams The Guardian
- Gary Younge Journalist, author and broadcaster
Funding
2019 - 2020
Total income: £168,969
Donations over £1,000:
- Unite the Union
- GMB Union
- CWU
- ASLEF
- NUM
- PCS
- NEU
- UCU
- TSSA
- Bakers Union
- Trust for London (viaRunnymede Trust)[2]