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 ...

To arrest the drift to social engineering, the voice of those subject to the steering should be inside the institutions responsible for social policy. This means more than putting token ‘community ...

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 ...

After we published our list of terms likely to loom large in this year's vocabulary, readers submitted their own nominations. Here's a sampling. This week we published a list of 9 global buzzwords ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the history of the US economy in decline. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

This week we published a list of 9 global buzzwords that will likely be in the headlines of 2023. Some definitely sound new(ish) — like polycrisis, referring to the overlapping crises that the world ...