Promoting income security as a right : Europe and North America / edited by Guy Standing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Standing, Guy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Basic income--Europe.

Basic income.

Basic income--North America.

Income maintenance programs--Europe.

Income maintenance programs.

Income maintenance programs--North America.

North America.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xx, 608 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2005.

Contents:

Section 1 Basic Income as a Right

1 About time: Basic Income Security as a Right

2 How Basic Income is Moving up the Policy Agenda: News from the Future

3 Can there be a Right to Basic Income?

4 Wasteful Welfare Transactions: Why Basic Income Security in Fundamental

5 Migration, Citizenship and Welfare State Reform in Europe: Overcoming Marginalization in Segregated Labour Markets

6 The Liberal's Dilemma: Immigration, Social Solidarity and Basic Income

Section 2 Rationales for Basic Income

7 The Psychological Rationale for Basic Income

8 The Limits of Production: Justifying Guaranteed Basic Income

9 Liberal and Marxist Justifications for Basic Income

10 Basic Income, Commons and Commodities: The Public Domain Revisited

11 'Calling': A Christian Argument for Basic Income

12 Social Credit as Economic Modernism: Seven Theses

13 Deliberative Democracy and the Legitimacy of Basic Income

Section 3 Legitimizing Basic Income Politically

14 Mobilizing Support for Basic Income

15 A Legitimate Guaranteed Minimum Income

16 Republicanism and Basic Income: The Articulation of the Public Sphere from the Repoliticization of the Private Sphere

17 Working Poor in Europe: A Partial Basic Income for Workers

18 Basic Income, Social Polarization and the Right to Work

19 Popular Support for Basic Income in Sweden in Finland

20 The Principle of Universalism: Tracing a Key Idea in the Scandinavian Welfare Model

21 Women's Politics and Social Policy in Austria

22 Bio-Economics, Labour Flexibility and Cognitive Work: Why not Basic Income

23 Exploring Ways to Reconcile Flexible Employment with Social Protection

Section 4 Building Towards Basic Income

24 On a Path to Just Distribution: The Caregiver Credit Campaign

25 A Care-Worker Allowance for Germany

26 Feminist Arguments in Favour of Welfare and Basic Income in Denmark

27 Public Support for Basic Income Shemes and a Universal Right to Health Care: What the French People Think

28 Activation of Minimum Income and Basic Income: History of a Comparison of Two Ideas

National and Regional Initiatives

29 The Universal Grant and Income Support in Spain and the Basque Country

30 The Impact of Basic Income on the Propensity to Work: Theoretical Gambles and Microeconometric Findings

31 A Failure to Communicate: The Labour Market Findings of the Negative Income Tax Experiments and their Effects on Policy and Public Opinion

32 Basic Income and the Means to Self-Govern

33 The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend: An experiment in Wealth Distribution

34 Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe: From Status to Contract.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1843311747

9781843311744

OCLC:

60832513