All Things Considered, Should Feminists Embrace Basic Income?

Baker, John

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“…In the value system underlying the separate spheres, whenever possible, care for ill, elderly, and individuals with disabilities was to be performed and received in the home where norms of intimacy, presence, and individualization were to prevail for care recipients, usually under the care of their female relatives (Baker, 2008). Caregiving not only encompassed the many tasks of helping family members with disabilities with daily activities but also involved emotion work (Rae, 1998).…”

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Trends Impacting Public Policy Support for Caregiving Families

Singer

Biegel

Ethridge

2010

Journal of Family Social Work

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Public policy aimed at supporting the caregiving capacity of families has risen to prominence on the public agenda in the United States. Initiatives at the state and federal levels have created some initial services. Three trends that are pushing the issue of family caregiving to the surface are discussed, including largescale social, demographic, and economic changes. The pressures on women from increased caregiving demands are discussed, along with the taken-for-granted cultural value placed on the home as a locus of care for family members who need assistance with common daily activities. Experiments at the state level with consumer-directed care and capitated wrap-around services are described. The authors argue that support for caregiving families is likely to remain a prominent concern of the public and policy makers for the foreseeable future.

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Trends Impacting Public Policy Support for Caregiving Families

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Ethridge

2010

Journal of Family Social Work

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“…Scholars argue that state provision of 'merit goods' -goods and services deemed valuable for every citizen, such as child allowance, unemployment insurance, schooling and healthcare -accompanied by targeted cash payments are much more likely to increase productivity and reduce inequalities (Bergmann 2004). They call for valuing care work on a par with other activities (Baker 2008). Research from Chile and Mexico shows that childcare services can enhance gender equality if the state commits to such goals, gives sufficient financial resources and develops effective regulations (Staab and Gerhard 2011).…”

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SDG 5: Gender Equality – A Precondition for Sustainable Forestry

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Colfer³

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Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People

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Key Points• Forestry cannot be thought of in isolation from its relations with other sectors and other parts of people's lives -for both the health of the forests and the well-being of forest peoples.• Forest governance and everyday management are upheld by a superstructure of gendered forest relations -invisible to mainstream forestry -that often disadvantages women as a social group.• Well-intentioned gender programmes can backfire, causing adverse effects on forests and forest peoples, if the efforts are not cognisant of context and power relations.

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“…7 http://pubs.lib.umn.edu/ijps/vol4/iss1/7 childcare, household management, etc., receives no direct monetary compensation when it is performed by family members, while only the well-to-do can afford to put this work into the market context, hiring nannies, cooks, or housecleaners. While some basic income proposals recognize the greater need for support in households with young children (Pateman, 2004;Baker, 2008;Robeyns, 2014), the point is too rarely made that such income is a reward for socially necessary -indeed essentialwork, rather than a handout.How the Core Support proposal is presented is important, for two reasons. One is that it emphasizes the value of the now unpaid work that is done in households, which is essential for human thriving and surviving.…”

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“…While some basic income proposals recognize the greater need for support in households with young children (Pateman, 2004;Baker, 2008;Robeyns, 2014), the point is too rarely made that such income is a reward for socially necessary -indeed essentialwork, rather than a handout.…”

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Core Support for the New Economy

Goodwin

2017

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This paper proposes an income guarantee called Core Support (CS), defined as compensation for household activities such as childcare, food preparation, care of elderly or ill persons in the home, and maintenance of the home and of household vehicles and appliances. The immediate goals of the proposal are to highlight, through compensation, the reality that the productive activities carried on in households are of essential importance for the whole economy and society, and to enable the people who carry out these essential activities to do so without having to short-change the care work because of the need to earn money through the market. The CS concept builds on literature on Basic Income Guarantees (BIG) and on feminist economics, which tends to be skeptical of BIG proposals. By addressing intra-household allocations, CS shows how a basic income system can promote a more caring democracy and a more partnership-oriented socioeconomic system that rewards the essential work of care. Appendix A surveys seven ways by which such a program could be financed.Keywords: basic income, care economy, core economy, intra-household distribution, unpaid work, women's work, gender norms, feminist economics, valuation, GDP Copyright: ©2017 Goodwin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Noncommercial Attribution license (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows for unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and adaptation, provided that the original author and source are credited. THE MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS THAT WILL AFFECT WHAT IS POSSIBLE AND WHAT IS DESIRABLEIn 1930 John Maynard Keynes anticipated that, due to the rapidity of technological change that was making labor ever more productive, "in our own lifetimes … we may be able to perform all the operations of agriculture, mining, and manufacture with a quarter of the human effort to which we have been accustomed." He predicted that by the time of his generation's grandchildren "the economic problem" -the struggle for subsistence -would be solved. (Keynes, 1930, pp. 3-4) 1 In one respect we could say that this prediction has been fulfilled: there is already enough global productive capacity so that a comfortable subsistence could be provided for all humans. That this is not the actual result -that a quarter of the human population still lives in situations of abject poverty -is not because we are technologically incapable. Rather, it is because the prevailing economic systems provide some people, but not all, with the means to be highly productive, in the sense of producing much that is valued in the world's markets; while others can barely produce enough for their own needs, or they work at jobs whose output is rewarded with very low pay.The essential assumption underlying Keynes' prediction was a continuing rise in labor productivity -that is, the average amount of goods or services that one person can produce. This trend has been observable ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, in the 18 th century. What has ...

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All Things Considered, Should Feminists Embrace Basic Income?

Abstract: Publication informationBasic Income Studies, 3 (3): Publisher Berkeley Electronic PressLink to online version

Cited by 30 publications

References 10 publications

Trends Impacting Public Policy Support for Caregiving Families

Trends Impacting Public Policy Support for Caregiving Families

SDG 5: Gender Equality – A Precondition for Sustainable Forestry

Core Support for the New Economy

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