From post-work to post-capitalism? Discussing the basic income and struggles for alternative forms of social reproduction
2018; Brill; Volume: 21; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/wusa.12359
ISSN2667-3657
AutoresAna Cecilia Dinerstein, Frederick Harry Pitts,
Tópico(s)Political Economy and Marxism
ResumoJournal of Labor and SocietyVolume 21, Issue 4 p. 471-491 ORIGINAL ARTICLE From post-work to post-capitalism? Discussing the basic income and struggles for alternative forms of social reproduction Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Corresponding Author Ana Cecilia Dinerstein a.c.dinerstein@bath.ac.uk orcid.org/0000-0003-0043-6165 Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK Correspondence Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. Email: a.c.dinerstein@bath.ac.ukSearch for more papers by this authorFrederick Harry Pitts, Frederick Harry Pitts fh.pitts@bristol.ac.uk orcid.org/0000-0002-3749-6340 Department of Management, School of Economics, Finance & Management, University of Bristol, UKSearch for more papers by this author Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Corresponding Author Ana Cecilia Dinerstein a.c.dinerstein@bath.ac.uk orcid.org/0000-0003-0043-6165 Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK Correspondence Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. Email: a.c.dinerstein@bath.ac.ukSearch for more papers by this authorFrederick Harry Pitts, Frederick Harry Pitts fh.pitts@bristol.ac.uk orcid.org/0000-0002-3749-6340 Department of Management, School of Economics, Finance & Management, University of Bristol, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 25 September 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/wusa.12359Citations: 9Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract This article contests the suggestion that the automation of production and the provision of a basic income potentiate the transition from a post-work to a postcapitalist society. This vista—mainly represented by the work of Paul Mason and Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams misses how capitalist work is both preconditioned by a historically-specific set of antagonistic social relations of constrained social reproduction, and determined by the specific social forms its results assume in commodity exchange and the constituted form of the nation-state. We argue that the transitional demands of automation and a basic income may serve to stem postcapitalist transformation, stopping short at a post-work society characterized by the continuation of capitalist social relations and forms. Retaining money under the rule of the nation-state, the proposed transition between post-work and postcapitalist society breaks insufficiently with the present, in some ways making it worse by replacing a wage over which workers can lawfully bargain with a state-administered monetary payment that creates a direct relationship of power between citizen and state, liquidating labor struggles. We show how the Unemployed Workers Organizations (UWOs) in Argentina offer a "concrete utopian" alternative that creates the capacity to reshape the relationship between individuals, society and the rule of money, value and the capitalist state rather than reinforce it. Citing Literature Volume21, Issue4December 2018Pages 471-491 RelatedInformation
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