Basic income from a feminist postwork perspective

  • Kathi Weeks Duke University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/poso.78753
Keywords: basic income, domestic labour, Wages for Housework, Marxist feminism, antiwork, poswork, antiproductivism, antifamilialism, autonomy

Abstract

This article presents a defence of the demand for a basic income against recent critiques from within the Left. Drawing on a series of lessons from the 1970s-era demand for Wages for Housework, it argues in favour of a universal basic income as a coalitional, antiproductivist, antifamilial reform that can help to alleviate some of the ways in which the current wage-and-family system miscounts our economic contributions and fails as a system of income distribution.

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Kathi Weeks, Duke University

Maestra y antropóloga social, especialista en antropología de la salud y de las políticas sociales.

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Published
2022-07-28
How to Cite
Weeks K. . (2022). Basic income from a feminist postwork perspective. Política y Sociedad, 59(2), e78753. https://doi.org/10.5209/poso.78753
Issue
Vol. 59 No. 2 (2022): Monográfico: Políticas sociales, redistribución y aportes feministas: la renta básica en la era postrabajo
Section
Monographic

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