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Acknowledgements

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This book draws on a large body of research on the platform economy, including 14 national surveys carried out at the University of Hertfordshire and funded by the European Foundation for Progressive Studies (FEPS) and the trade union confederation UNI-Europa. In the UK, additional funding was provided by the Trades Union Congress (TUC). I would like to thank these bodies for their generous support. In particular, I would like to thank Justin Nogarede at FEPS, Aileen Koerfer at UNI-Europa and Kate Bell at the TUC for their always constructive and hands-on engagement with the project, and my colleagues Neil H. Spencer, Matthew Coates and Dag S. Syrdal at the University of Hertfordshire’s Statistical Support Unit for their patient and painstaking analysis of the complex survey data. Their contributions have been invaluable, but they cannot be held responsible for the views expressed here, which are my own. The book also draws on some of my other recent published material, including the discussion paper A New Bill of Workers’ Rights for the 21st Century, published by Compass (www.compassonline.org.uk), a blog post ‘The key criticisms of basic income and how to overcome them’, published by Open Democracy (https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net), a contribution to New Visions for Gender Equality 2019, published by the Gender Equality Unit of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Justice (https://ec.europa.eu), and a number of posts on my personal blog (https://ursulahuws.wordpress.com).

For helpful and constructive feedback on the first draft, I would like to thank Christine Evans-Pughe, Malcolm Torry, three anonymous reviewers and the perceptive members of the Dalston Socialist Book Club.

I must also acknowledge the support of many other wonderful people who looked after me physically during the period in which this book was written and without whom I would probably not be alive to complete it. They include osteopath Joyce Vetterlein, medical herbalist Andrew Chevallier, dentist Greg Gossayn, surgeon Will Rudge and his team at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, surgeon Alistair Hunter and his team at the University College London Hospital, the accident and emergency team and the staff on Ward 7 at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, Doctor Stephanie and the nursing team at the Whittington Hospital’s Ambulatory Care Unit, A. Chisholm and J. Calder of the London Ambulance Service, Mahesh Chemists in Newington Green Road, who bring me my medications however busy they are, and last, but by no means least, the unfailingly efficient, caring and proactive staff of the Miller GP Practice in Highbury New Park. I thank them all from the bottom of my heart. These committed, hard-working people represent what is best about our existing welfare state and the values that must be carried forward into the future if its spirit is to live on.

Reinventing the Welfare State

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