Workers Day protests in Tehran, Iran. May 1, 2018. Wikicommons/Armin Karami. Some rights reserved.The groundbreaking concept ‘precariat’, coined by British ...

Forty years ago, it was widely predicted that by now everybody would be working for income for about 20 hours a week, living in security and in professional positions of some kind. Instead, we have ...

Judging by reactions to The Precariat around the world, many people do grasp the concept and identify themselves as being in the precariat. This was epitomised for me by two incidents, one in the USA, ...

Inequality. Class fragmentation. Social and economic exclusion. These buzzword terms are often used by church and labor advocates to explain a new global reality. They suggest that human society is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carrie Brandon Elliot analyzes international tax issues. Artificial intelligence headliners are romancing universal basic income ...

Social democracy's retreat doesn't mean progressive politics is dying. Today's mass class – the precariat – is defining a new agenda Next year is the 800th anniversary of one of the greatest political ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By Dr. Guy Standing, professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies and author ...

At the Labour conference of 2005, Tony Blair made one of his most fascinating speeches as party leader and prime minister: a tribute to the cleansing hurricane of globalisation, from a man who had ...

I can recommend to the author of the leader “A better form of capitalism is possible” (FT View, December 31) two articles in the same FT issue as evidence of a worse form of capitalism — one that has ...

Cambridge, MA – The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has ...