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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: WELFARE AND THE STATE

Volume 9

AUTOMATIC POVERTY

AUTOMATIC POVERTY

BILL JORDAN

First published in 1981 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd

This edition first published in 2019
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1981 Bill Jordan

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ISBN: 978-1-138-61373-7 (Set)
ISBN: 978-0-429-45813-2 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-60065-2 (Volume 9) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-47079-0 (Volume 9) (ebk)

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Preface to the reissue

The effects on social and economic life of new technologies, and especially robotics, were debated long before the advent of the information revolution. In this book, I explored the implications for welfare states of the displacement of human labour power from industrial production, at the time when globalisation was beginning to affect employment patterns in the advanced western economies.

At that time, there were still few supporters of the combination of universal, unconditional Basic Incomes for all citizens and a society based on free co-operation between citizens which I advocated in this book. The financial crisis of 2007-8 has stimulated wider support for this vision of the future. For example, Rutger Bregmans Utopia for Realists and How we Can Get There (Bloomsbury, 2017) has received an overwhelmingly positive response, and become a best-seller.

This is especially welcome as the alternative an authoritarian nationalism, which includes coercive measures against poor people claiming social assistance and earnings supplements has become a widespread phenomenon. It would have been beyond my imagination then to conjure up a figure like Donald J. Trump, or to warn against the rise of right-wing governments in Poland and Hungary, then still state socialist countries in the Soviet style. But it is heartening that the alternatives I canvassed have come to be recognised by many as feasible and desirable, and that this book has been selected by Routledge for its prestigious series.

Automatic poverty

Bill Jordan

Department of Sociology
University of Exeter

First published in 1981
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
39 Store Street, London WC1E 7DD,
9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA and
Broadway House, Newtown Road,
Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1EN
Guildford, London, Oxford and Worcester
Bill Jordan 1981
No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without permission from the
publisher, except for the quotation of brief
passages in criticism

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Jordan, Bill

Automatic poverty.
1. Great Britain Economic policy 1945-
I. Title

330.9410857 HC256.6 80-42212

ISBN 0-7100-0824-4
ISBN 0-7100-0825-2 Pbk

Contents

I am particularly grateful to my father, Radford Jordan, for the help and encouragement he gave me in the writing of this book. I would also like to thank the following for helpful discussions and criticisms at various stages of its preparation: Bruce Britton, Mark Drakeford, Charlie Jordan, Laurence and Katharine Liddle, Sarah Pelissier, Sally Jordan and Ben Fine. I am very grateful to Lora Ridger for all the hard work she did in typing both a draft version and the final text. Thanks also to Joe and Henry Jordan, for extra assistance.

Since the mid-1970s, a right-wing interpretation of Britains economic problems has gained ground. It traces them to the decline in industrial employment, and the parallel expansion of the social services. This diagnosis of Britains ills influenced the economic and social policies of the Labour government of 1974-9, but it found its most triumphant expression in the election of the new Conservative government.

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