Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	The Problem with Genealogies
	How Should We Write the History of UBI?
	Competing Narratives, Contested Meanings
Part I: Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: The Rise of Basic Income in Britain and the United States
	Chapter 2: Basic Income as Technocratic Liberalism: Framing a Policy Idea in Twentieth-Century Britain
		Three Approaches to Basic Income, c. 1797–1945
		Juliet Rhys-Williams and the ‘New Social Contract’
		Basic Income in Post-War Social Policy
		Enter the Radicals
		Conclusion
	Chapter 3: Basic Income in the United States, 1940–1972: How the ‘fiscal revolution’ Reshaped Social Policy
		Milton Friedman’s Negative Income Tax
		Equality and the Price System
		Guaranteed Incomes Against the New Deal Order
		‘Black Poverty’ and the Triumph of the Income Strategy
		Conclusion
	Chapter 4: American Cybernation: Technological Upheaval and Guaranteed Income Advocacy in the 1960s United States
		Introduction
	Chapter 5: The Other Side of Abundance: Feminist and Ecological Arguments for Guaranteed Income in the United States, c. 1960–1980
		From Welfare Rights to Guaranteed Income
		Ecology and Growth
		Conclusion
Part II: Basic Income and the Politics of Work in Post-Industrial Europe
	Chapter 6: ‘Free of our labors and joined back to nature’: Basic Income and the Politics of Post-Work in France and the Low Countries
		‘Work’ Versus ‘Labour’: The End of Producer Sovereignty
		Antistatism Against Social Rights
		Conclusion: Losing the Battle, Winning the War
	Chapter 7: Activating the Unemployed or Liberating the Employed? Universal Basic Income in the French Welfare Reform Debate
		Welfare and Social Citizenship in France: From Universalism to Dualism?
		A Neoliberal Breakthrough: The ‘Safety Clause for the Player’
		A Republican Activation: ‘L’insertion’
		France’s Two Worlds of Welfare: Insurance Versus Solidarity
		From Obligation to Emancipation: UBI and the ‘End of the Labour Society’
		An ‘Emancipatory Form of Activation’? The Paradoxes of UBI
		Conclusion
	Chapter 8: From ‘Second Cheque Strategy’ to ‘Basic Income’: Why Did André Gorz Change His Mind?
		Gorz’s 1983 Reform Programme
		Why Does ‘Work’ Provide a ‘Ticket to Citizenship’?
		So Why Did Gorz Change His Mind? And When?
		Did Gorz Really Change His Mind?
		What Is New About ‘Work’ in ‘Cognitive Capitalism’?
		Conclusion
Part III: Global Perspectives
	Chapter 9: Basic Needs and the Discovery of Global Poverty
	Chapter 10: Jobs or Income Guarantees? The Politics of Universal Basic Income and Cash Transfers in Southern Africa
		Fertile Ground: A Note on Context
		The Promise of Basic Income in Namibia and South Africa
		Turning Away from Universality
		Basic Income for What—And Whom?
		A Political Resurgence?
		A Future Politics of Distribution
	Chapter 11: From Freedom to Finance: How Development Conditions and Paradigms Frame the Basic Income Debate
		Introduction
		Basic Income in Capitalist Contexts
			A Political Economy Approach to Ideation
			Basic Income Narration and Radicalism: Discursive and Real
			Basic Income Radicalism in Historical Construction
		Basic Income at the Apogee of Emergent Capitalist Crises
			The Gilded Age and the Single-Tax of Henry George
			Social Libertarianism Against Social Democracy: Hohlenberg
		Finance Crises and the Systematization of Income Support
			Social Capitalism Before and After the 1930s
			Friedman, Myrdal and Government Reform
		Basic Income and the Welfare State
			Income Guarantees and 1960s Liberalism in America and Britain
			‘Revolt from the Centre’: 1970s Thinking on Basic Income in Northern Europe
		Construction of a Basic Income Movement Under Neo-Liberal Expansion
			Libertarianism of the Left
			Libertarianism of the Right
			Basic Income in Neo-Liberal Embedding
		Conclusion
	Chapter 12: Philippe Van Parijs on the History of Basic Income: An Interview
Index