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Author Casassas, David, author.

Title Unconditional freedom : universal basic income and social power / David Casassas ; translated by Julie Wark
Published London : Pluto Press, 2024
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 246 pages)
Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Cap and life -- Part I. Cartographies of social (dis)order: why something like a basic income? -- 1. The psychosociology and politics of elitist verticalism -- 2. The fallacy of autogenous social orders -- 3. The liberal-organicist synthesis -- 4. Resisting tutelage: fraternity for the civilising of a conflictive world -- Part II. Holding the gaze: republicanism and democracy -- 5. Socioeconomic independence and worlds in common
6. Bargaining power: exit options for entry doors and the emancipatory potential of basic income -- 7. Universalisation of citizenship and universalisation of property -- 8. Unconditional freedom: basic income as predistribution -- Part III. Flexible, multi-active lives: the dimensions of social power -- 9. Basic income and the democratisation of work -- 10. Why do we want bargaining power? -- 11. Our flexibility is our freedom -- Part IV. The dream is over: post-neoliberalism (or why a basic income now and how) -- 12. 'Wanting everything back': basic income in contemporary social movements
13. Societies of the market or societies with markets? -- 14. Grappling with customs in common: a people's political economy? -- 15. Leaving the proletariat and becoming free workers -- Epilogue: unconditional freedom at the frontiers of capitalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary How Universal Basic Income could liberate the working class
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Basic income.
Form Electronic book
Author Wark, Julie, translator.
ISBN 9780745348643
0745348645
9780745348650
0745348653