About

For decades, work has been debated and discussed as a narrow economic category. Instead, Hilary Cottam presents work as a cultural force at the heart of good lives, strong communities and a sense of a shared national destiny. She explores how we can shape this force to meet technological change, our ecological crisis and the challenges of the world's deep injustices.

Drawing on a fascinating range of sources – historians, trade unionists, business leaders, philosophers and hours of her imaginative workshops with workers – she poses a critical question: how can we redesign work?

In conversation with author and business leader Margaret Heffernan, Hilary shares ideas for how we could work differently and live better.

Free and open to all.