Minimum income and working time in the pluri-active society

The chapter is organised as follows: in the first section, we will give an overview of the theoretical coordinates of the debate on polarisation and the effects on the labour market of the main driver of polarisation, technological change. The third section relates these transformations to the challenges that welfare policies are facing. Starting from this, in the fourth paragraph, we will focus on minimum income policies in their different articulations with reference to those strands of literature that have focused on the issue of market and non-market activation. The fifth and last paragraph recalls some conclusive considerations on the issues of work-life balance in the framework of a reform agenda inspired by the Social Investment paradigm