I had a long conversation this morning with a man who’s been like a brother to me since I was a little boy. ‘Bruv’, he said,…
Neil Philip Howard Posts
The first thing you notice about Utopia for Realists is just how seriously it has been endorsed. On the front cover and inside sleeve you’ll find quotes from…
Recently, the people over at Policy Network asked myself and one of my friends, comrades and fellow basic income advocates, to write a few words…
Continue reading Responding to Progressive Objections to Basic Income
What is Basic Income? A Basic Income is a cash income given to every adult in perpetuity and with no strings attached. It comes with no means…
Continue reading Why Basic Income Must Become the New Frontier for the Global Labour Movement
For some reason, I keep getting interviewed by La Razón Newspaper in Spain. This is strange to me, given that La Razón is, as I…
This week my colleagues and I at Beyond Trafficking and Slavery launched the ‘Utopias’ stream of our series on ‘Possible Futures’. Here is the text…
Continue reading The Practical Necessity of Utopian Thinking
At the bottom of the tomato supply chain stand thousands of over-worked and underpaid African migrant workers. These are the guys who, every summer, bend…
I was in Sheffield this week for a Symposium on Research Methods to do with unfree labour. It was an excellent gathering with some top…
Continue reading Why (and how!) we need to talk to ‘the victims’
So, I am back after a summer hiatus, which was mainly spent conducting fieldwork in Southern Italy. For my first post, here is the text…
Continue reading On ‘Freedom’ and ‘Root Causes’: Unfree Labour in Global Production
This is the text of a short speech I gave to staff at the headquarters of the International Trades Union Confederation in Brussels this week.[1]…