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Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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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. Chapter 3 is
available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via link.springer.com.
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