Work Inequality Basic Income

by Brishen Rogers, Philippe van Parijs, Diane Coyle, et al.

As automation and the decline of manufacturing fuel fears of a coming age of mass unemployment, basic income--a government cash grant given unconditionally to all--has won wide support across the ideological spectrum, from Silicon Valley to labor. This issue asks what to make of such strange bedfellows. Some extol basic income's merits, not only as a salve for financial precarity, but as a path toward racial justice and equality. Others caution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946511021
• ISBN13: 9781946511027
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Boston Review
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher