The globalization, automation, and financialization of the economy have created an increasingly unequal class structure. The rise of the gig economy and unstable work arrangements have created a “precariat,” a new class that Guy Standing argues has truly revolutionary potential. Our panel discusses how new this class really is and what economic reforms and actors can stop the swell of inequality.

Featuring comments from Bill Fletcher Jr., Nancy Folbre, Azfar Khan, Alexandra Köves, George Liodakis, Ronaldo Munck, William I. Robinson, Pritam Singh, Eva-Maria Swidler, and Alison Tate and Evelyn Astor.