Tag: employment

‘Work Sucks, I Know’: It’s Time We Moved to a Four-Day Week
Government spin would have you believe the world of work is looking rosier than ever - were it not for the fact that it defines our actual daily existence. In a new column, James Meadway - former economics editor to John McDonnell - argues a four-day week could be the solution we've been desiring all along.
6 Things Warwick University’s New Temp Agency Tells Us About Academic Precarity
Warwick University has announced plans to employ all casual staff through an internal temp agency. Anti-casualisation campaigners have targeted the move as an insidious form of outsourcing which threatens the whole sector.
4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time
What does automation mean for the future of employment? Some fear it will cast us to the scrapheap while the automated economy grinds on; others argue technological developments have always created new jobs. But could it ever mean something different entirely?
‘Let Them Eat Bingo’: 5 Things About #Budget2014
Here Aaron Bastani takes a quick look at today's budget. Little has changed from the growth model leading up to the crisis of 2008 he says and the budget is filled with assumptions and projections that are bordering on delusional.
Bang On The Money: Four More Reasons to Support the Universal Basic Income

Andrew Dolan recently wrote a list of seven reasons to support a universal basic income. It has been well received and I agree with nearly all of it. Below are four more reasons to support the UBI. 1. We all have a right to the shared bounty of the land. Wealth is made from a […]
Do They Owe Us a Living? 7 Reasons the Universal Basic Income is Worth Fighting For.

The Universal Basic Income (UBI) – sometimes called the Unconditional Basic Income, Citizens’ Income or Social Wage – has in recent times become a focus of economic discussion across the political spectrum. While column inches in the Financial Times and The Economist have been racking up, academics such as Stuart White have been articulating how […]

Weaponising Workfare
In an article originally posted at 'Our Kingdom' at Open Democracy in March 2013 Bastani looks at the relationship between the secular crisis, surplus populations, automation and workfare policies.