The welfare state is increasingly challenged and threatened by futures, whose exact
realisation remains largely uncertain. The article compares how the International Labour …

In the late 2010s, the future of work gathered attention from the most influential actors in
global social governance. The International Labour Organization (ILO), since 2015 and in …

In 2021, amid the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Labour
Organization (ILO) held its 109th International Labour Conference (ILC) in a virtual mode …

The Third ISA Forum will be convened in Vienna, Austria, 10-14 July 2016 on the theme
“The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World.” This theme …

In April 2009, the World Bank announced changesto its' Employing Workers Indicator'(EWI),
one of the key indicators used in its flagship publication Doing Business (World Bank 2009) …

There has always been a critical, emancipatory tradition within futures studies. Although
those voices can still be heard, there has been a growing tendency for futures studies to be …

The central line of argument in this contribution is that the urgency of the economic, social
and environmental crises demands to go beyond the institutionalist efforts to install more …

We live in a social world whose pace is accelerating. While the focus of most aspects of our
intensified social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis …

The language of 'human security'arose in the 1990s, including from UN work on 'human
development'. What contributions can it make, if any, to the understanding and especially the …

In this paper I am concerned with contemporary industrial societies' ability to extend
themselves into the far future by economic, scientific and political means on the one hand …