Unconditional Freedom : Universal Basic Income and Social Power / David Casassas and translated by Julie Wark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casassas, David, author.

Contributor:

Wark, Julie, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microeconomics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press, [2024]

Summary:

How Universal Basic Income could liberate the working class.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Cap and Life

Part I: Cartographies of Social (Dis)order: Why Something Like a Basic Income?

1. The Psychosociology and Politics of Elitist Verticalism

2. The Fallacy of Autogenous Social Orders

3. The Liberal-Organicist Synthesis

4. Resisting Tutelage: Fraternity for the Civilising of a Conflictive World

Part II: Holding the Gaze: Republicanism and Democracy

5. Socioeconomic Independence and Worlds in Common

6. Bargaining Power: Exit Options for Entry Doors and the Emancipatory Potential of Basic Income

7. Universalisation of Citizenship and Universalisation of Property

8. Unconditional Freedom: Basic Income as Predistribution

Part III: Flexible, Multi-Active Lives: The Dimensions of Social Power

9. Basic Income and the Democratisation of Work

10. Why Do We Want Bargaining Power?

11. Our Flexibility Is Our Freedom

Part IV: The Dream Is Over: Post-neoliberalism (or Why a Basic Income Now and How)

12. 'Wanting Everything Back': Basic Income in Contemporary Social Movements

13. Societies of the Market or Societies with Markets?

14. Grappling with Customs in Common: A People's Political Economy?

15. Leaving the Proletariat and Becoming Free Workers

Epilogue: Unconditional Freedom at the Frontiers of Capitalism

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Casassas, David Unconditional Freedom

ISBN:

9780745348650

0745348653

9780745348643

0745348645

OCLC:

1417757224