Beyond the New Paternalism Basic Security as Equality

by Standing, Guy

• ISBN13: 9781859846353
• ISBN10: 1859846351
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

The century of laboring man has come to an end, and yet governments continue to link social entitlements to the performance of labor. This book argues that the era of market regulation has ended in an era of fiscal regulation: new social and economic insecurities have spread around the world, boosted by globalization and flexible labor markets, and compounded by privatization and increased selectivity of social policy. This global insecurity has spawned growing and vastly underestimated inequalities. To overcome these seemingly endemic insecurities and inequalities, Guy Standing argues for a complex egalitarianism, in which basic income security is recognized as a right for all. Work (including voluntary, community and care work), and not labor, must be the basis of a 'good society,' and policies must be judged by their capacity to promote occupational security.

Author Biography

Guy Standing is director of the Socio-Economic Programme of the International Labour Organisation. He directed the ILO’s technical programme in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s and was an advisor to the South African government in 1995–96. He has written extensively on labour market and social policy issues.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	viii
Preface	x
Acknowledgments	xiv
Prologue: Security versus Control	1	(6)
Recalling the Century of Labouring Man	7	(12)
Introduction	7	(2)
The Era of Statutory Regulation	9	(5)
Social Income: Post-1945 ``Decommodification''?	14	(2)
Crumbling of the Era	16	(3)
The Era of Market Regulation	19	(18)
Introduction	19	(1)
Economic Liberalisation	19	(7)
The Washington Consensus	26	(3)
Fiscal Policy as Tax Competition	29	(2)
Social and Labour Policies of the Era	31	(2)
Global Labour Flexibility	33	(2)
Social Dumping	35	(1)
Conclusions	35	(2)
The Spread of Labour Insecurity	37	(33)
Introduction	37	(1)
Labour Market Insecurity	37	(8)
Employment Insecurity	45	(1)
Job Insecurity	46	(1)
Skill Reproduction Insecurity	46	(1)
Work Insecurity	47	(9)
Representation Insecurity	56	(11)
Concluding Points	67	(3)
The Crunch of Income Insecurity	70	(41)
Introduction	70	(2)
The ``New'' Global Stratification	72	(9)
Income Security of the Employed	81	(5)
State Benefits	86	(19)
Community Benefits	105	(1)
Fiscal Welfare	106	(1)
Restructuring Social Income	107	(2)
Concluding Points	109	(2)
Ageing: Time Bomb or the Spark of Good Society?	111	(13)
Introduction	111	(1)
Demographic Time Bomb?	111	(2)
Pensions: Basic Economics and Emerging Issues	113	(5)
Multi-Tierism	118	(4)
Concluding Points	122	(2)
End of Unemployment Benefits?	124	(35)
Introduction	124	(3)
Unemployment and Income Security	127	(1)
Policy Frameworks for Unemployment	127	(2)
Unemployment Insurance Benefits	129	(8)
The Conditionality of Unemployment Benefit Schemes	137	(12)
The ``Generosity of Benefits''	149	(3)
Unemployment Assistance	152	(2)
Other Options	154	(1)
Work Insurance	154	(2)
Concluding Points	156	(3)
The Paternalistic Consensus	159	(14)
Introduction	159	(1)
A Crumbling Washington Consensus?	159	(4)
Third Wayism: Labourism's Rigor Mortis?	163	(7)
Compassionate Conservatism	170	(1)
Conclusions	171	(2)
The Road to Workfare: Route to Integration or Threat to Occupation?	173	(23)
Introduction	173	(1)
The Workfare State?	174	(1)
Workfare Schemes	175	(3)
Arguments for and against Workfare	178	(16)
Conclusions	194	(2)
Basic Security as Reviving Equality	196	(43)
Introduction	196	(3)
Policy Decision Principles	199	(2)
A Strategy for Distributive Justice	201	(27)
Equality of Voice: Reviving Representation Security	228	(10)
Concluding Reflections	238	(1)
Reviving Work and Occupation	239	(39)
Introduction	239	(1)
The Labour Force Approach	239	(3)
Work versus Labour	242	(2)
Employment	244	(3)
Jobs	247	(1)
The Right to Work	247	(8)
The Pursuit of Occupational Security	255	(6)
Interest versus Passion?	261	(2)
The ILO's ``Decent Work'' Programme	263	(2)
Citizenship Work	265	(5)
Acquiring Control of Time	270	(1)
Concluding Points	271	(7)
Notes	278	(16)
Index	294