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Universal basic income in historical perspective

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Material type
단행본
Personal Author
Sloman, Peter, 1986-, editor. Zamora, Daniel, (Doctoral Candidate), editor. Ramos Pinto, Pedro, editor.
Title Statement
Universal basic income in historical perspective / Peter Sloman, Daniel Zamora Vargas, Pedro Ramos Pinto, editors.
Publication, Distribution, etc
Cham, Switzerland :   Palgrave Macmillan,   2021.  
Physical Medium
xiii, 305 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN
9783030757052 3030757056
요약
This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work. In particular, the book goes beyond a genealogy of a seemingly utopian idea to explore how the meaning and reception of basic income proposals has changed over time. The study of UBI provides a prism through which we can understand how different intellectual traditions, political agents, and policy problems have opened up space for new thinking about work and welfare at critical moments. Contributions range broadly across time and space, from Milton Friedman and the debate over guaranteed income in the post-war United States to the emergence of the European basic income movement in the 1980s and the politics of cash transfers in contemporary South Africa. Taken together, these chapters address comparative questions: why do proposals for a guaranteed minimum income emerge at some times and recede into the background in others? What kinds of problems is basic income designed to solve, and how have policy proposals been shaped by changing attitudes to gender roles and the boundaries of social citizenship? What role have transnational networks played in carrying UBI proposals between the global north and the global south, and how does the politics of basic income vary between these contexts? In short, the book builds on a growing body of scholarship on UBI and lays the groundwork for a much richer understanding of the history of this radical proposal.
Content Notes
1. Introduction; Peter Sloman, Daniel Zamora Vargas and Pedro Ramos Pinto -- Part I. Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: The Rise of Basic Income in Britain and the United States -- 2. Basic Income as Technocratic Liberalism: Framing a Policy Idea in Twentieth-century Britain; Peter Sloman -- 3. Basic Income in the United States, 1940-1972: How the 'Fiscal Revolution' Reshaped Social Policy; Daniel Zamora Vargas -- 4. American Cybernation: Technological Upheaval and Guaranteed Income Advocacy in 1960s USA; Andrew V. Sanchez -- 5. The Other Side of Abundance: Feminist and Ecological Arguments for Guaranteed Income in the United States, c. 1960-1980; Alyssa Battistoni -- Part II. Basic Income and the Politics of Work in Post-industrial Europe -- 6. 'Free of our labours and joined back to nature': Basic Income and the Politics of Post-work in France and the Low Countries, c. 1968-1986; Anton Jager -- 7. Activating the Unemployed or Liberating the Employed? Universal Basic Income in the French Welfare Reform Debate; Marc-Antonie Sabate -- 8. From Second Cheque Strategy to Basic Income: Why did Andre Gorz Change his Mind?; Walter Van Trier -- Part III. Global Perspectives -- 9. Basic Needs and the Discovery of Global Poverty; Samuel Moyn -- 10. Jobs or Income Guarantees? The Politics of Universal Basic Income and Cash Transfers in Southern Africa; E. Fouksman -- 11. From Freedom to Finance: How Development Conditions and Paradigms Frame the Basic Income Debate; Louise Haagh -- 12. Philippe Van Parijs on the History of Basic Income: An Interview; Daniel Zamora Vargas.
Bibliography, Etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
Basic income --History. Public welfare.
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505 0 ▼a 1. Introduction; Peter Sloman, Daniel Zamora Vargas and Pedro Ramos Pinto -- Part I. Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: The Rise of Basic Income in Britain and the United States -- 2. Basic Income as Technocratic Liberalism: Framing a Policy Idea in Twentieth-century Britain; Peter Sloman -- 3. Basic Income in the United States, 1940-1972: How the 'Fiscal Revolution' Reshaped Social Policy; Daniel Zamora Vargas -- 4. American Cybernation: Technological Upheaval and Guaranteed Income Advocacy in 1960s USA; Andrew V. Sanchez -- 5. The Other Side of Abundance: Feminist and Ecological Arguments for Guaranteed Income in the United States, c. 1960-1980; Alyssa Battistoni -- Part II. Basic Income and the Politics of Work in Post-industrial Europe -- 6. 'Free of our labours and joined back to nature': Basic Income and the Politics of Post-work in France and the Low Countries, c. 1968-1986; Anton Jager -- 7. Activating the Unemployed or Liberating the Employed? Universal Basic Income in the French Welfare Reform Debate; Marc-Antonie Sabate -- 8. From Second Cheque Strategy to Basic Income: Why did Andre Gorz Change his Mind?; Walter Van Trier -- Part III. Global Perspectives -- 9. Basic Needs and the Discovery of Global Poverty; Samuel Moyn -- 10. Jobs or Income Guarantees? The Politics of Universal Basic Income and Cash Transfers in Southern Africa; E. Fouksman -- 11. From Freedom to Finance: How Development Conditions and Paradigms Frame the Basic Income Debate; Louise Haagh -- 12. Philippe Van Parijs on the History of Basic Income: An Interview; Daniel Zamora Vargas.
520 ▼a This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work. In particular, the book goes beyond a genealogy of a seemingly utopian idea to explore how the meaning and reception of basic income proposals has changed over time. The study of UBI provides a prism through which we can understand how different intellectual traditions, political agents, and policy problems have opened up space for new thinking about work and welfare at critical moments. Contributions range broadly across time and space, from Milton Friedman and the debate over guaranteed income in the post-war United States to the emergence of the European basic income movement in the 1980s and the politics of cash transfers in contemporary South Africa. Taken together, these chapters address comparative questions: why do proposals for a guaranteed minimum income emerge at some times and recede into the background in others? What kinds of problems is basic income designed to solve, and how have policy proposals been shaped by changing attitudes to gender roles and the boundaries of social citizenship? What role have transnational networks played in carrying UBI proposals between the global north and the global south, and how does the politics of basic income vary between these contexts? In short, the book builds on a growing body of scholarship on UBI and lays the groundwork for a much richer understanding of the history of this radical proposal.
650 0 ▼a Basic income ▼x History.
650 0 ▼a Public welfare.
700 1 ▼a Sloman, Peter, ▼d 1986-, ▼e editor.
700 1 ▼a Zamora, Daniel, ▼c (Doctoral Candidate), ▼e editor.
700 1 ▼a Ramos Pinto, Pedro, ▼e editor.
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Table of Contents

Introduction

Pedro Ramos Pinto, Peter Sloman and Daniel Zamora

I. Anglo-American Economists and Guaranteed Incomes

1. Varieties of Basic Income: The British Case, Peter Sloman

2. Milton Friedman''s Negative Income Tax and the Demise of Welfare Economics, Daniel Zamora Vargas

3. Living Wages and Universal Incomes: Radical Economics Activists in Neoliberal America, Tiago Mata

II. Feminism, Post-Work and Automation

4. The End of Work? Guaranteed Income as a Feminist and Ecological Response to Fordism, Alyssa Battistoni

5. Basic Income and the Spectre of the Machine, Andrew Sanchez

III. Basic Income in Post-Industrial Europe

6. "Free of Our Labors and Joined Back to Nature": Basic Income and the Politics of Post-Work in the Low Countries, c.1968-1986, Anton Jager

7. Activating the Unemployed or Liberating Workers? Basic Income in the French Welfare Reform Debate, 1988-2018, Marc Antoine Sabate

8. Andre Gorz''s Recantation of the Second Cheque Strategy and his Adoption of UBI, Walter van Trier

IV. Cash Transfers in a Global Context

9. Jobs or Income Guarantees? A History of the Rise, Fall, and Questionable Resurgence of Universal Basic Income and Cash Transfers in Southern Africa, Liz Fouksman

10. From Freedom to Finance: How Development Paradigms Framed Basic Income, Louise Haagh

11. Basic Needs and the Discovery of Global Poverty, Samuel Moyn

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