Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income

This book offers unique perspectives on the ever-changing nature of work and the plausibility of a universal basic income to address the elimination of jobs from the workforce.

List of contents

Introduction

Michael Chobli and Michael Weber

1. A Hayekian Case for Free Markets and a Basic Income
Matt Zwolinski

2. An Anarchist Defense of a Basic Income
Jessica Flanigan

3. Relational Sufficientarianism and Basic Income
Justin Tosi

4. The Anti-paternalist Case for Basic Income Provision
Michael Cholbi

5. Work and Worth: Basic Income and the Social Meaning of Work
Evelyn Forget

6. Work, Technology, and Inequality
Kory Schaff

7. In Defence of the Post-Work Future: Withdrawal and the Ludic Life
John Danaher

8. Universal Basic Income and the Good of Work
Andrea Veltman

9. Basic Income and the Future of Bad Work
Frauke Schmode

10. Basic Income and Intimate Labor
Vida Panitch

About the author

Michael Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the California Center for Ethics and Policy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (2011), Understanding Kant’s Ethics (2016), and Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights (2017).

Michael Weber is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He has published widely in ethics and political philosophy on topics including rational choice theory, ethics and the emotions, and egalitarianism. He has also co-edited six volumes on applied ethics and political philosophy, including Paternalism: Theory and Practice (2013), Manipulation: Theory and Practice (2014), The Ethics of Self-Defense (2016), Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates (2017), and Religious Exemptions (2017).

Summary

This book offers unique perspectives on the ever-changing nature of work and the plausibility of a universal basic income to address the elimination of jobs from the workforce.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Weber Cholbi
• Assisted by: Michael Cholbi (Editor), Cholbi Michael (Editor), Michael Weber (Editor), Weber Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032091099
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3209109-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Political, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Research, Labour / income economics, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structure & processes, Labour Economics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Sociology: work & labour, Political structure and processes, Sociology: work and labour