In the Balance
As jobs disappear and wages flatline, paid work is an increasingly fragile basis for dignified life. This predicament, deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic, is sparking urgent debates about alternatives such as a universal basic income (UBI). In this incisive new book, Hein Marais casts the debate ab...
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2022
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| description | As jobs disappear and wages flatline, paid work is an increasingly fragile basis for dignified life. This predicament, deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic, is sparking urgent debates about alternatives such as a universal basic income (UBI).
In this incisive new book, Hein Marais casts the debate about a UBI in the wider context of the dispossessing pressures of capitalism and the turmoil of global warming, pandemics and social upheaval. Marais surveys the meaning, history and appeal of a UBI before even-handedly weighing the case for and against it. The book explores the vexing questions a UBI raises about the relationship of paid work to social rights, about prevailing notions of entitlement and dependency, and about the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. Along with cost estimates for different versions of a basic income in South Africa, it discusses financing options and lays out the social, economic and political implications.
Highly topical and distinctive in its approach, In the Balance: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in South Africa and Beyond is the most rounded and up-to-date examination yet of the need and prospects for a UBI in a global South setting such as South Africa. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-874012025-03-23T05:16:19Z In the Balance Marais, Hein Universal Basic Income Guarantee; UBI; unconditional basic income, citizen's basic income; living stipend; guaranteed annual income; universal income security program; financial grant; universal social insurance system; economic equality; Fourth industrial revolution; world without work; basic income vs negative income tax As jobs disappear and wages flatline, paid work is an increasingly fragile basis for dignified life. This predicament, deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic, is sparking urgent debates about alternatives such as a universal basic income (UBI). In this incisive new book, Hein Marais casts the debate about a UBI in the wider context of the dispossessing pressures of capitalism and the turmoil of global warming, pandemics and social upheaval. Marais surveys the meaning, history and appeal of a UBI before even-handedly weighing the case for and against it. The book explores the vexing questions a UBI raises about the relationship of paid work to social rights, about prevailing notions of entitlement and dependency, and about the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. Along with cost estimates for different versions of a basic income in South Africa, it discusses financing options and lays out the social, economic and political implications. Highly topical and distinctive in its approach, In the Balance: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in South Africa and Beyond is the most rounded and up-to-date examination yet of the need and prospects for a UBI in a global South setting such as South Africa. 2022-07-02T04:03:45Z 2022-07-02T04:03:45Z 2022-07-01T09:25:55Z 2022 book OCN: 1309251281 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57170 9781776147724 9781776146932 9781776147748 9781776147144 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/87401 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57170/1/9781776147144_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57170/1/9781776147144_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57170/1/9781776147144_WEB.pdf Wits University Press 10.18772/12022077724 10.18772/12022077724 5964138d-a857-41b2-823c-a1f4937b3189 9781776147724 9781776146932 9781776147748 9781776147144 308 Johannesburg open access |
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