Speenhamland, automation and the basic income: A warning from history?
Renewal - ISSN 0968-5211
Volume 25 Number 3-4 (2017)
Speenhamland, automation and the basic income: A warning from history?
Frederick Harry Pitts, Lorena Lombardozzi, Neil Warner
Abstract
Basic income may not be the ideal response to automation and technological unemployment envisaged by its proponents. In fact, it risks embalming our current economy – defined by low-skilled, low-paid, and unrewarding work – for longer than would otherwise be the case.
To cite this article
Frederick Harry Pitts, Lorena Lombardozzi, Neil Warner (2017) Speenhamland, automation and the basic income: A warning from history?, Renewal, 25(3-4 )