There's an excellent article in the latest issue of the Atlantic by Don Peck: "How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America." I'm delighted to see this available online.
By way of placing the article in a theoretical framework, one book that comes quickest to mind is Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio's The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1994). An even larger theoretical context is provided by Claus Offe's classic (well, in some circles), Disorganized Capitalism: Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics (Cambride, MA: MIT Press, (1985).
And now you're prepared to consider (or re-consider) "basic income" proposals to supplement the provisions of a shrinking welfare state.
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