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Ouvrir grand les frontières, une semaine de travail de quinze heures, le revenu de base universel... Des idées naïves et dépassées ou bien la force de l'utopie renouvelée? Résolument anti-décliniste, Utopies réalistes tombe à pic et nous explique comment construire un monde idéal aujourd'hui et ne pas désespérer! D'une ville canadienne qui a totalement éradiqué la pauvreté à l'histoire d'un revenu de base pour des millions d'Américains sous Richard Nixon, Rutger Bregman nous emmène dans un voyage à travers l'histoire, et, au-delà des divisions traditionnelles gauche-droite, il défend des idées qui s'imposent par la force même de l'exemple et le sérieux de la démarche historique. Tout progrès de la civilisation – des débuts de la démocratie à la fin de l'esclavage – fut d'abord considéré comme un fantasme de doux rêveurs.
À la fois stimulant et passionnant, appuyé sur les travaux d'Esther Duflo, Thomas Piketty, David Graeber, etc., cet essai vif, pédagogique et amusant rouvre plusieurs perspectives : la réduction du temps de travail, le revenu universel, et plus largement la lutte contre la pauvreté et la réduction des inégalités, la taxation des flux financiers, et enfin l'ouverture des frontières. Alors laissons l'enthousiasme de l'auteur, à contre-courant du pessimisme ambiant, nous convaincre que de nouvelles propositions utopiques peuvent être envisageables à court terme.
The 4 Day Week is a practical, how-to guide for business leaders and employees alike that is applicable to nearly every industry. Using qualitative and quantitative data from research gathered through the Perpetual Guardian trial and other sources by the University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology, the book presents a step-by-step approach to preparing businesses for productivity-focused flexibility, from the necessary cultural conditions to the often complex legislative considerations.
The story of Perpetual Guardian's unprecedented work experiment has made headlines around the world and stormed social media, reaching a global audience over 4.5 billion. A mix of trenchant analysis, personal observation and actionable advice, The 4 Day Week is an essential guide for leaders and workers seeking to make a change for the better in their work world.
Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth and happiness?
Basic Income is a regular cash transfer from the state, received by all individual citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed only by a few. Political parties across the world are now adopting it as official policy and the idea generates headlines every day. Guy Standing has been at the forefront of thought about Basic Income for the past thirty years, and in this book he covers in authoritative detail its effects on the economy, poverty, work and labour; dissects and disproves the standard arguments against Basic Income; explains what we can learn from pilots across the world and illustrates exactly why a Basic Income has now become such an urgent necessity.
The first half of Chris Hughes’s life played like a movie reel right out of the “American Dream.” He grew up in a small town in North Carolina. His parents were people of modest means, but he was accepted into an elite boarding school and then Harvard, both on scholarship. There, he met Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz and became one of the co-founders of Facebook.
In telling his story, Hughes demonstrates the powerful role fortune and luck play in today’s economy. Through the rocket ship rise of Facebook, Hughes came to understand how a select few can become ultra-wealthy nearly overnight. He believes the same forces that made Facebook possible have made it harder for everyone else in America to make ends meet.
To help people who are struggling, Hughes proposes a simple, bold solution: a guaranteed income for working people, including unpaid caregivers and students, paid for by the one percent. The way Hughes sees it, a guaranteed income is the most powerful tool we have to combat poverty and stabilize America’s middle class. Money―cold hard cash with no strings attached―gives people freedom, dignity, and the ability to climb the economic ladder. A guaranteed income for working people is the big idea that's missing in the national conversation.
What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making "good jobs" obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working -- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries-education and health care-that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself.
The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren't going to work. We must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading to understand what accelerating technology means for our economic prospects-not to mention those of our children-as well as for society as a whole.
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Moving towards much shorter hours of paid work offers a new route out of the multiple crises we face today. Many of us are consuming well beyond our economic means and well beyond the limits of the natural environment, yet in ways that fail to improve our well-being – and meanwhile many others suffer poverty and hunger. Continuing economic growth in high-income countries will make it impossible to achieve urgent carbon reduction targets. Widening inequalities, a failing global economy, critically depleted natural resources and accelerating climate change pose grave threats to the future of human civilization.
A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems. These include overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably, to care for each other, and simply to enjoy life.
The time people spend in the workplace has varied dramatically throughout history, and still today varies widely between countries.
What today we consider to be a ‘natural’ amount of time to spend at work is a relatively recent invention. The nine-to-five, five-days-
a-week model for full-time work has been dominant for just 50 years, and even that is rapidly beginning to change. This report
is contemporary with a number of innovative models of work-time reduction currently in practice within the UK and internationally