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October 2018:An exchange prompted by the essay
The Precariat: Today’s Transformative Class?
Bill Fletcher
Taking a long view of precariousness as an inherent feature of capitalism can shed light on the contemporary debate on “the precariat.” Read
Nancy Folbre
The focus on “the precariat” is useful but limited: the fight over distribution isn’t just between labor and capital. Read
Azfar Khan
A universal basic income is key to delivering security and autonomy to people in a precarious world. Read
Alexandra Köves
Beyond policies like a universal basic income, a transition to a equitable and sustainable society requires the redefinition of well-being, needs, and work itself. Read
George Liodakis
There is no “precariat,” per se—the working class as-a-whole remains the necessary agent for transformation. Read
Ronaldo Munck
Work in the Global South has always been precarious, but the resurgence of global labor organizing offers a way forward. Read
William I. Robinson
The “precariat,” rather than a new class, is part of the global proletariat, on whose struggle with transnational capital our fate depends. Read
Pritam Singh
A basic income alone is not transformative, but a feature of a broader ecosocialist vision of dismantling capitalism. Read
Eva-Maria Swidler
Workers in the Global North have a lot to learn from the past struggles of workers in the Global South (as well as in their own countries). Read
Alison Tate and Evelyn Astor
Labor unions must continue to play an important role in the fight for economic justice and against precariousness. Read
Author’s Response
Guy Standing addresses points raised by the contributors to this roundtable. Read
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The rise of the precariat is part of multiple dimensions of the changing character of capitalism: economic concentration, redistribution of wealth and income, the changing class structure, dispossession, geographic space, and of course, politics.