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The Digital Transformation of Labor: Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare

Polarization, Tax Revenue and the Welfare State: Digital Disruption or Still Standing Strong?

Book Chapter
Reference
Blix, Mårten (2019). “Polarization, Tax Revenue and the Welfare State: Digital Disruption or Still Standing Strong?”. In Anthony Larsson and Robin Teigland (Eds.), The Digital Transformation of Labor: Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare (149–162). London: Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9780429317866

Author
Mårten Blix

Editors
Anthony Larsson, Robin Teigland

Some changes in society are significant enough to warrant a specific name. Digitalization is one of those and is sometimes described as the third industrial revolution. What can we learn from comparing the present situation to the state of society at the outset of the first Industrial Revolution, some two-and-half centuries ago?