The FUTUREWORK Homepage

FUTUREWORK is an international e-mail forum for discussion of how to deal with the new realities created by economic globalization and technological change. Basic changes are occurring in the nature of work in all industrialized countries. Information technology has hastened the advent of the global economic village. Jobs that workers at all skill levels in developed countries once held are now filled by smart machines and/or in low-wage countries. Contemporary rhetoric proclaims the need for ever-escalating competition, leaner and meaner ways of doing business, a totally 'flexible' workforce, jobless growth.

What would a large permanent reduction in the number of secure, adequately-waged jobs mean for communities, families and individuals? This is not being adequately discussed, nor are the implications for income distribution and education. Even less adequately addressed are questions of how to take back control of these events, how to turn technological change into the opportunity for a richer life rather than the recipe for a bladerunner society.

The objectives of Futurework are to move these issues onto public and political agendas worldwide and involve as many people as possible in redesigning for the new realities.

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FUTUREWORK LINKS

*Basic Income/Canada

*Basic Income European Network (BIEN)

*Canada's Policy Research Initiative (PRI)

*Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

*New Zealand's JobsResearch Website

*Universal Basic Income New Zealand (UBINZ)

*Global Ideas Bank

*BraveNewWorkWorld & NewWork News

*International Labor Organization (ILO)

*Statistics Canada

*New Economics Foundation (UK)

*Working Today (network of services for "flexible" workers)

* Belgian/European Citizen's Income group