Anti/Postwork Feminist Politics and A Case for Basic Income

Kathi Weeks

doi:10.31269/triplec.v18i2.1174

Anti/Postwork Feminist Politics and A Case for Basic Income

Kathi Weeks Duke University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i2.1174

Keywords: basic income, domestic labour, Wages for Housework, Marxist feminism, antiwork, postwork, antiproductivism, antifamilialism, autonomy

Abstract

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

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2020-07-23

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Vol 18 No 2 (2020)

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