Carrie Brandon Elliot reviews how AI developments have affected discussions on universal basic income, along with proposals for calculating and funding its costs.

Forty years ago, it was widely predicted that by now everybody would be working for income for about 20 hours a week, living in security and in professional positions of some kind. Instead, we have ...

A contribution to debate urging the mainstream left not to be distracted by populism. Aim instead for what we know about the near Future. Transformations tend to go through several preliminary phases.

Inequality. Class fragmentation. Social and economic exclusion. These buzzword terms are often used by church and labor advocates to explain a new global reality. They suggest that human society is ...

The precariat, a class-in-the-making, is the first mass class in history that has systematically been losing rights built up for citizens. So, why is it the new dangerous class and how is it ...

At the Labour conference of 2005, Tony Blair made one of his most fascinating speeches as party leader and prime minister: a tribute to the cleansing hurricane of globalisation, from a man who had ...

Guy Standing, a professor of economics and development studies at the University of London, is author of The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011) and A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to ...

Social democracy's retreat doesn't mean progressive politics is dying. Today's mass class – the precariat – is defining a new agenda Next year is the 800th anniversary of one of the greatest political ...

There is an adage in economics known as ‘the lump of labor fallacy’. It is that technological change is destroying jobs and generating rising unemployment. It rests on an image of a finite number of ...

A precarious foot on the job ladder. Cleaner via Dmitry Kalinovsky/www.shutterstock.com For 30 years after the end of World War II, most young people left school at the earliest opportunity and ...