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 pages -
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 ), -