"Work Requirements reframes the history of work-based social welfare practice as a representational project tasked with shoring up the inherent meaningfulness of work, examining what Todd Carmody calls the "print culture of social welfare" to show how work became an indicator of social...

Im Vordergrund stehen unüber-sehbar Wertfragen, insbesondere die Frage, welchen Stellenwert der Autonomie eingeräumt werden soll. Gegenüber der weitreichenden Autonomie, wie sie durch ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen als einer "Demokratisierung der geistesaristokratischen Musse" ermöglicht...

"Want. Disease. Ignorance. Squalor. Idleness. Taken together, these comprise the 'giant evils' expressed in the Social Question--first raised in mid-nineteenth-century Europe to diagnose the crises produced by the emergence of the industrial society. Due to a globalized switch to neoliberalism...