The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

“Guy Standing has probably done more in this country than anyone to advance the case for basic income. His account of the labor market really was transformative. Here we have people who are often well-qualified—whose parents had clearly advanced their interest across the course of their lives—increasingly doing work that was low paid, insecure, and incapable of leading to property, family, and forms of success that their parents would have assumed would fall naturally from being graduates or working in various different professions…It’s very difficult for older people to understand the way in which the labor market works now. What Standing does is to articulate those particular conditions to a much wider audience.” Read more...

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Matthew Johnson, Political Scientist