Zeitschrift | Ausgabe
Journal of Sociology 59 (2023), 4
Special Issue: A Basic Income for a Complex Society
Proposals for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) have a long history, but a surge of interest since the global financial crisis suggests a connection to growing inequality and insecurity. The pandemic intensified interest through the global explosion in the use of cash transfers. This special issue arose from pre-pandemic debates among Australian sociologists connecting global interest around UBI to emerging patterns of inequality and insecurity stemming from Australia's precarious labour market and expensive housing market. Those discussions broadened to reflect on Australia's colonial history and patriarchal economy, and the potential to recognise more diverse contributions and values. Evolving through the Covid crisis, the issue now incorporates the remarkable alternatives that were, briefly, made possible. The articles reflect both scepticism and optimism towards UBI, but all reveal how basic income can provide a useful lens for Australian sociology – a simple tool responding to an increasingly complex society.
CONTENT
Special Issue: A Basic Income for a Complex Society. Guest Editors: Fabian Cannizzo & Ben Spies-Butcher
A basic income for a complex society: Introduction
Fabian Cannizzo and Ben Spies-Butcher
pp. 799 - 807
Work and wellbeing in remote Australia: Moving beyond punitive ‘workfare’
Zoe Staines
pp. 808 - 827
Re-politicising the future of work: Automation anxieties, universal basic income, and the end of techno-optimism
Lauren Kelly
pp. 828 - 843
Disentangling the normative justification of basic income from the structure of the capitalist wage relation and the culture of the work ethic
Troy Henderson
pp. 844 - 859
Can a basic income help address homelessness? A Titmussian perspective
Andrew Clarke
pp. 860 - 878
Understanding Covid-19 emergency social security measures as a from of basic income: Lessons from Australia
Elise Klein, Kay Cook, Susan Maury, Kelly Bowey
pp. 879 - 893
Come together? The unusual combination of precariat materialist and educated post-materialist support for an Australian Universal Basic Income
Roger Patulny, Ben Spies-Butcher
pp. 894 - 913
A basic income for every crisis? Building blocks of a political economy framework
Joe Chrisp, Jurgen De Wispelaere
pp. 914 - 930
Articles
LGBTQ+ non-discrimination and religious freedom in the context of government-funded faith-based education, social welfare, health care, and aged care
Douglas Ezzy, Lori Beaman, Angela Dwyer, Bronwyn Fielder, Angus McLeay, Simon Rice, Louise Richardson-Self
pp. 931 - 951
International students on the edge: The precarious impacts of financial stress
Shaun Wilson, Catherine Hastings, Alan Morris, Gaby Ramia, Emma Mitchell
pp. 952 - 974
‘When you delete Tinder it’s a sign of commitment’: leaving dating apps and the reproduction of romantic, monogamous relationship practices
Tiina Vares
pp. 975 - 991
Stuck between the Global North and South: Middling migrants in Australia and Singapore Sylvia Ang
pp. 991 - 1007
Book Review
Robin Simmons and Kat Simpson, Education, Work and Social Change in Britain’s Former Coalfield Communities: The Ghost of Coal
Steven Roberts
pp. 1008 - 1010