Ailsa McKay

The Future of Social Security Policy (eBook, ePUB)

Women, Work and A Citizens Basic Income

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The purpose of the book is to critically assess current welfare reform agendas with specific reference to the world of paid work and social security policy from a feminist economics perspective. It has four main themes:
* To explore the concept of social security and analysing the role of the state in the provision of income maintenance within an economics framework
* To examine the reform agenda for social security policy in the UK with specific reference to the citizens basic income proposal
* To critically assess the role social security policy plays in the promotion of gender equality
* To reconceptualize the citizens basic income proposal from a feminist economics perspective

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134287178
• Artikelnr.: 42636503

Autorenporträt

Ailsa McKay is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Glossary 1. Introduction: Social Security Reform - A
Possible Strategy 2. Justifying Income Transfers 3. Social Security or
Income Maintenance Policy? A Question of Definitions 4. 'Basic Income' or
'Basic Income Maintenance' - A Micro Approach to Policy 5. Why a Citizens
Basic Income?: The Story So Far 6. Arguing for a Universal Income Guarantee
-The Reformist Case 7. Arguing for a CBI - A Radical Policy Response? 8.
Commodification v's Non-Commodification - A Feminist Economics Perspective
in Support of a Citizens Basic Income 9. Conclusion - The Way Forward?
Agenda Bibliography