Technology and the loss of manufacturing jobs have many worried about future mass unemployment. It is in this context that basic income, a government cash grant given unconditionally to all, has gained support from a surprising range of advocates, from Silicon Valley to labor. Our contributors explore basic income's merits, not only as a salve for financial precarity, but as a path toward racial justice and equality. Others, more skeptical, see danger in a basic income designed without attention to workers' power and the quality of work. Together they offer a nuanced debate about what it will take to tackle inequality and what kind of future we should aim to create.
- ISBN10 1946511021
- ISBN13 9781946511027
- Publish Date 27 October 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 142
- Language English
- URL http://mitpress.mit.edu/9781946511027