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Spring 2017

Work Inequality Basic Income

If captains of Silicon Valley endorse a basic income, should we be skeptical of unconditional cash transfers? This issue explores the promise and peril of such proposals.

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Basic Income in a Just Society

Cash grants have a role to play in building a decent future for work—alongside much else.

Brishen Rogers
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A Jobless Utopia?

A rural town in Spain gives us a glimpse into the challenges we will face in a workless future.

David McDermott Hughes

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The Right to Strike

Unions are being strangled by laws that block workers from organizing, striking, and acting in solidarity. Becoming a rights-based movement is the only way to save labor.

Peter Kellman, Ed Bruno, James Gray Pope
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Why Coretta Scott King Fought for a Job Guarantee

She saw economic precarity not just as a side effect of racial subjugation, but central to its functioning.

David Stein

Poetry

Ammiel Alcalay

From Imperial Abhorrences (and Other Abominations)

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Jen Fitzgerald

Glossary of Terms

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Jill Magi

From SPEECH

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Jen Fitzgerald

Bargaining

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Poetry

Swivillization

Rodrigo Toscano

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