Handmade products increasingly carry labels that make individual artisans and craft processes visible. But what about these workers' pay and work conditions?

Claims about artisanship, heritage and sustainability are used to justify premium prices. But are they verified - or is there a risk of “craftwashing”?

AI-driven disruptions demand a total rethink of public policies to deal with very sizeable labour market inequalities. Where to start in thinking this through?

6:30pm Thu 8 Oct | Reni Eddo-Lodge | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Britain faces deep inequality and a fractured social contract. Join academics, policy experts and civil society leaders to discuss practical pathways to a fairer future.

Claims about artisanship, heritage and sustainability are used to justify premium prices. But are they verified - or is there a risk of “craftwashing”?

AI-driven disruptions demand a total rethink of public policies to deal with very sizeable labour market inequalities. Where to start in thinking this through?

6:30pm Tues 20 Oct | Symeon Brown, Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

AI debates often focus the bias in algorithms - but the deeper inequality concerns who controls the data, computing capacity and institutional power to predict

The industry transformed when sewing machines took off — but widespread unemployment wasn’t the outcome

AI debates often focus the bias in algorithms - but the deeper inequality concerns who controls the data, computing capacity and institutional power to predict

6:30pm Thu 8 Oct | Reni Eddo-Lodge | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Britain faces deep inequality and a fractured social contract. Join academics, policy experts and civil society leaders to discuss practical pathways to a fairer future.

Seven learnings from a viral campaign

The ongoing decline in funding for humanitarian and development assistance stands in stark contrast to the global rise in wealth concentration and wid…

What do African policy leaders need from inequality research now? The African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research at the University of Cape Town, the International Inequalities Institute at…

Inequality is a policy choice, and its extremes can be reversed

In the world's richest countries, 80-90% of the remaining pay gap between men and women can be traced to the arrival of a first child. Can this gap be closed?

In the world's richest countries, 80-90% of the remaining pay gap between men and women can be traced to the arrival of a first child. Can this gap be closed?

Join the Michael Lipton memorial lecture delivered by Professor Francisco H. G. Ferreira of the London School of Economics (LSE) who will speak on Inequality and Inclusive Growth.

Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty. But it has also produced extraordinary inequality of wealth and power. How do we reconcile these two statements?

Can bringing art and social science into dialogue place “research facts” and “artistic values” into new and productive relationships?

Using Gen-Z lingo, music and memes, the youth protests sweeping India are questioning what it means to practice citizenship in the world's largest democracy

Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty. But it has also produced extraordinary inequality of wealth and power. How do we reconcile these two statements?

Open letter signed by 40 academics including Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz and Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level

We see the very poor who inject drugs as either self-destructive or as passive victims of a broken system. But Sarah Brothers found something else.

Extreme heat is a public health issue that's rooted in housing inequality. Poorer households, renters, older people and those in urban areas are most exposed

Extreme heat is a public health issue that's rooted in housing inequality. Poorer households, renters, older people and those in urban areas are most exposed

For many children with disabilities in Nepal, the promise of education remains out of reach due to various systemic, institutional, and social barriers

Keynote at the Development Studies Association conference, DSA2026 at the Centre for Sustainable Development, University College Dublin. Professor Naila Kabeer, LSE speaks on: From growth to…

Part of the Inequalities Seminar Series at LSE 26 May 2026 Speaker: Javier Terrero Dávila, Economist, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Income mobility is often invoked as…

Women are leading when it comes to innovative solutions to the ecological crisis, based on a relationship with nature grounded in care and stewardship