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All things considered, should feminists embrace basic income?
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Date Issued
2008
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Abstract
As a feminist, I am committed to equality of condition between men and women, defined multidimensionally in terms of respect and recognition; resources; love, care and solidarity; power; and working and learning. I concentrate in this comment on equality
in the affective system, i.e., the set of social relations that operates to meet people's needs for love, care and solidarity. A central problem for egalitarians is that recognising, valuing and supporting care work risks reinforcing the gendered division of labour, a problem of much wider remit than the issue of basic income. I argue, however, that basic income can be construed as recognising and supporting care work as a form of worthwhile but noncommodifiable activity and that
this should be combined with confronting the division of labour culturally and ideologically. I cite recent empirical work on caregivers and care recipients in Ireland in support of my position.
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Journal Article
Publisher
Berkeley Electronic Press
Journal
Basic Income Studies
Volume
3
Issue
3
Subject – LCSH
Income--Sex differences
Division of labor
Equality
Feminism
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English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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