by Karl Widerquist | Nov 21, 2014 | Research
This special issue of the journal Sociologia Del Lavoro has several articles, all with English abstracts and five articles are in English (with Italian abstracts)
Languages: Italian and English
Emiliana Armano, Federico Chicchi, Eran Fisher, and Elisabetta Risi (eds.) “Boundaries and Measurements of Emerging Work: Gratuity, Precariousness and Processes of Subjectivity in the Age of Digital Production,” a special issue of Sociologia Del Lavoro, n.133 ( I^-2014), March 2014
by Toru Yamamori | Nov 20, 2014 | Research
[Toru Yamamori]
Henvel and Cohen interviewed Edward Snowden on October 6 in Moscow. In the interview Snowden endorses a basic income. The interview now online and also will be published in the November 17 edition of the Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, “Edward Snowden: A ‘Nation’ interview.” Nation, November 17, 2014.
by Toru Yamamori | Nov 19, 2014 | Research
[Toru Yamamori]
In his post, Dvorsky argues that technological unemployment has been increasing and inevitable, and that it makes a basic income absolutely inevitable for a bright future.
George Dvorsky, “How Universal Basic Income Will Save Us From the Robot Uprising.” io9:We Come From The Future, November 4, 2014.
by Toru Yamamori | Nov 18, 2014 | Research
[Toru Yamamori]
In his post, Christensen inform that a science fiction published in 1967 referred to a basic income. Philip Jose Farmer’s novel Riders of the Purple Wage predicted what will follow after the implementation of a basic income. The novel won Hugo Award.
Bill Christensen, “Time For A Universal Basic Income?.” Science Fiction in the News, October 30, 2014.
by Jenna van Draanen | Nov 17, 2014 | Research
Najma Sadeque, “Everyone’s share of the pie” The Nation. October 16, 2014.
by Jenna van Draanen | Nov 14, 2014 | Research
SUMMARY: This article introduces the reader to a new French documentary on basic income, and more specifically, on the French Movement for Basic Income. It provides a detailed synopsis of the plot and the main characters. The authors report that the film asks the right questions about how our society could be organized differently.
Language: French
Creations pour un revenue de base, “Un revenue pour la vie [Income for Life]” Revenu de Base. February, 2014.
