Flexibility is the new injustice inflicted on the working class

Globalisation is often blamed for falling living standards. But the role of flexible working and self-employment in blighting people's lives is being overlooked

The rise of Nigel Farage, Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen is often blamed on the angry, reaction of blue-collar workers to decades of falling living standards.

The financial crash of 2008 only served to make the situation worse. And so the west finds itself in the grip of powerful protest movements that seek to brush aside failing, sclerotic institutions like the US congress and EU parliament in favour of more locally democratic administrations (or possibly right-of-centre governments with autocratic leaders).

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