Chapter 1 Introduction: social security reform--a possible strategy -- chapter 2 Justifying income transfers -- chapter 3 Social security or income maintenance policy? A question of definitions -- chapter 4 'Basic income' or 'basic income maintenance' -- chapter 5 Why a Citizens' Basic Income? The story so far -- chapter 6 Arguing for a universal income guarantee: The reformist case -- chapter 7 Arguing for a CBI: A radical policy response? -- chapter 8 Commodification versus noncommodification -- chapter 9 Conclusion: The way forward?
0
Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen's basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality, universality and unconditionality which would ensure a minimum income guaranteed for all members of society. Implementing a CBI, would consequently entail radical reform of existing patterns of welfare delivery and would bring into question the institutionalized relationship between work and welfare. Ailsa McKay's book makes a unique and positiv.