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Many people have helped with this book. I would like to thank all those that took part in a series of six seminars throughout 2017 at Churchill College, Cambridge, sponsored by the Common Good Foundation: Sam Boyd, Lewis Coyne, Ruth Davis, Stephen Davison, Maurice Glasman, Gwen Griffith-Dickson, Scott Langdon, Lisa Nandy, Adrian Pabst, F.H. Pitts, Jonathan Rutherford, the late Roger Scruton and Ed Wallis. Some of the papers I presented in these seminars inform chapters that follow, and I want to record my appreciation for the invaluable comments and feedback I received.

I am also grateful to the Humanism and Identity Group convened by Jonathan Rutherford that met throughout 2018–19 including Jade Azim, Daniel Chandler, Richard Grayson, Jack Hutchison, Hannah O’Rourke, Adrian Pabst, Tobias Phibbs, Matthew Sowemimo and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite.

I particularly want to thank Peter Nolan and Harry Pitts for supplying detailed comments on the draft of the book and for their encouragement and help in improving the overall argument with their suggestions and criticisms. I must also acknowledge Peter’s long-term friendship, guidance and supervision, especially concerning questions of value, productivity and work futures. I am also indebted to Stuart White for sharing materials on Universal Basic Income, to Michael Sandel for conversations over several years on key themes in the book and to Kenneth O. Morgan and John Shepherd for helping me to navigate labour history. I also wish to thank Liam Baker, Torsten Bell, Florence Gildea, Nick Lowles and Carys Roberts for support with some of the empirical data.

I would also like to record my appreciation to the staff and associates of Nuffield College, Oxford, especially for insights into the history of the ‘Oxford School’, including the participants at a conference entitled ‘50 Years after the Donovan Commission’ organized by the History and Policy Trade Union Forum. I would like to thank Peter Ackers and John Kelly for subsequent conversations and support from the Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures at the University of Leicester.

My editor George Owers has been quite brilliant throughout this project and I genuinely cannot thank him enough as well as everyone at Polity.

I wish to thank my staff and local party for being patient while I worked on this project.

Finally, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to my constituents in Dagenham and Rainham. Above anything, their knowledge, wisdom and extraordinary resilience inform the pages that follow.