by Sandro Gobetti | Jul 3, 2016 | Research
Article by Luca Santini and Sandro Gobetti (BIN Italia), published on Cadmus journal Vol. 2 Issue 6 may 2016.
Abstract
A feeling of uncertainty about the future as well as the perception that the past classical securities are gone are widely spread among people. Criticism or disaffection affects the majority of the traditional political forces of the European continent. It is not possible to talk about the European crisis without referring to the crisis of wage-based society. All political options of the past century have de facto put labour at the centre of society.
The post-classical era got its start in the ’80s when, for the first time since World War II, the phenomenon of mass unemployment affected Europe. The crisis of wage labour cannot be regarded as a temporary economic conjuncture of an otherwise unlimited growth; all consequences of the phase must be contemplated in order to design at once a society based on new principles.
For years, after the end of the Fordist system, nothing has been done to cope with the conditions of precarious workers. The issue of a guaranteed income is, therefore, crucial and inescapable in order to exit this long-term European crisis. The European Union should take a stand on the protection of human dignity and on the “right to exist”. Could basic income at the continental level be the basis for a social Europe? We are looking forward to it.
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by Sandro Gobetti | Jul 2, 2016 | News
Bin Italia, the italian basic income network has released a new editorial production. It’s available online for free: QR3 – Income for Notebooks.
“It takes a guaranteed basic income!”
This publication nº3 (April 2016) features 24 authors and 150 pages. It offers different perspectives thanks to the variety of articles by several italian authors. As reported from the back cover:
“The discourse on guaranteed basic income in Italy requires a rediscovery of its founding reasons. This seems necessary to push this persuasive and compassionate idea circulating more and more as mainstream, and which is finding evidence in public advocacy, reform projectsa and even in legislation. This idea can be a template for progressive development of a new society model, based on respect for dignity, self-determination and freedom”.
For more information and summary, click here. Download the publication here.
by Sandro Gobetti | Jul 1, 2016 | News
BIN Report n°21 is the e-magazine with news from Italy and the world on guaranteed basic income. This n°21 collects news, events, information and articles from November 2015 to April 2016. The BIN Report is delivered by the Basic Income Network Italy. This number has been published thanks to the collaboration of: Giuseppe Bronzini, Giuseppe Allegri, Andrea Fumagalli, Luca Santini, Rachel Serino and all those who sent us information and news.
To collaborate on dl BIN Report write to info@bin-italia.org
To read the BIN Report n°21 April 2016 click here.
by Sandro Gobetti | Apr 14, 2016 | News
On Tuesday, March 15th, at 10:30h am, the “Regional Committee for the guaranteed minimum income” has delivered to the Campania Region regional Government offices, the 13.607 certified signatures collected over the four months lasting the guaranteed income campaign.
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by Sandro Gobetti | Apr 12, 2016 | News
Credit to: BIN Italia.
A conference has been held in Milan to exchange ideas on policies to combat poverty, such as the introduction in Italy of a minimum and guaranteed income. It took place on Wednesday, March 2nd at Degrees Hall on the Via Conservatorio.
Through the first part of the conference, which consisted of talks on the topic, and a final round table, researchers, teachers and experts presented and discussed policy at the national and regional level, with particular attention to political obstacles to the introduction of anti-poverty policies such as a guaranteed minimum income. The initiative is part of a new focus in Italian political debate, towards the introduction of national measures that have positive effects on social inclusion by reducing economic inequality.
The conference was sponsored by the departments of Political Science and Social Studies of the State University, and the Sociology department of the Catholic University, in collaboration with Easycare Foundation.
Program:
9:00 am – POVERTY AND MINIMUM INCOME AFTER THE GREAT RECESSION: HAS SOMETHING CHANGED?
Chair: Matteo Jessoula, University of Milan
- The minimum income schemes in the European periphery during the crisis(Manos Matsaganis, University of Athens Economics and Politecnico di Milano)
- Towards a national minimum income scheme in Italy: the political role (Ilaria Madama, University of Milan)
- Minimum income trials in Italy: from Social card to the experiments of the SIA (Daniela Mesini, Institute for Social Research)
- The regional minimum income schemes: an alternative?(Marcello Natili, University of Milan)
- The Lombard case, from the proposal to the law on an income for autonomy(Rosangela Lodigiani, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan)
11:15 am – Coffee break
11:30 am – Debate
THE MINIMUM INCOME IN ITALY: WILL IT BE THE RIGHT TIME?
Chair: Paul Graziano, University of Padua and the European Social Observatory
SPEAKERS
Giulio Gallera, Councillor of autonomy Income, Regione Lombardia
Elena Lattuada, CGIL Lombardia
Cristiano Gori, Alliance against poverty in Italy and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan
Sandro Gobetti, Campaign for the Dignity Income – BIN Italia
Raffaele Tangorra, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
Tito Boeri, President INPS
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