Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030757064
• ISBN-13: 9783030757069
• Author: Daniel Zamora Vargas, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Peter Sloman
  

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
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
3. Basic Income in the United States, 1940–1972: How the ‘fiscal revolution’ Reshaped Social Policy
4. American Cybernation: Technological Upheaval and Guaranteed Income Advocacy in the 1960s United States
5. The Other Side of Abundance: Feminist and Ecological Arguments for Guaranteed Income in the United States, c. 1960–1980
Part II. Basic Income and the Politics of Work in Post-Industrial Europe
6. ‘Free of our labors and joined back to nature’: Basic Income and the Politics of Post-Work in France and the Low Countries
7. Activating the Unemployed or Liberating the Employed? Universal Basic Income in the French Welfare Reform Debate
8. From ‘Second Cheque Strategy’ to ‘Basic Income’: Why Did André Gorz Change His Mind?
Part III. Global Perspectives
9. Basic Needs and the Discovery of Global Poverty
10. Jobs or Income Guarantees? The Politics of Universal Basic Income and Cash Transfers in Southern Africa
11. From Freedom to Finance: How Development Conditions and Paradigms Frame the Basic Income Debate
12. Philippe Van Parijs on the History of Basic Income: An Interview

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