by Toru Yamamori | Jun 8, 2015 | News
Gender Research Centre at University of Bristol organizes a seminar on feminism and Citizen’s Income, with Centre for East Asian Studies (University of Bristol) & FSSL Family and Parenting Research group (University of Bristol).
‘Feminist Way to Citizen’s Income: Claimants Unions and Women’s Liberation Movements in Britain 1968-1987’
Time & Date: Wednesday June 17th @ 16.00
Venue: G2 (1st Floor), 10 Priory Road, University of Bristol
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/maps/google/
Speaker: Toru Yamamori
Abstract: At the 9th National Women’s Liberation Conference held in London in 1977, a resolution which asked the whole of the British Women’s Liberation movement to endorse a citizen income (an unconditional basic income) was passed with majority vote. However, this fact appears not to have been properly recorded in any academic literature. The resolution was raised by women in the Claimants Unions Movement. The paper is based on oral historical research and looks closely at their activism, especially their intersections with other feminists and their articulation of the citizen’s income demand.
Toru Yamamori is a professor at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, and currently a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, where he works on two projects: Gender, Class and Race in discourse on Basic Income in 1970s Britain, and History of Economic Thought on Need. His past publications were in various disciplines and the common question behind them was how feminist and other social movements have challenged the philosophical foundation of economics. He was a founding member of the Japanese Association for Feminist Economics, and is a member of the Basic Income Earth Network.
by Toru Yamamori | May 18, 2015 | Research
Abstract:”The long-term vision of economic security and social participation for people with a disability held by disability activists and policy-makers has not been realized on a global scale. This is despite the implementation of various poverty alleviation initiatives by international and national governments. Indeed within advanced Western liberal democracies, the inequalities and poverty gaps have widened rather than closed. This article is based on findings from a historical-comparative policy and discourse analysis of disability income support system in Australia and the Basic Income model. The findings suggest that a model such as Basic Income, grounded in principles of social citizenship, goes some way to maintaining an adequate level of subsistence for people with a disability. This article concludes by presenting some challenges and a commitment to transforming income support policy.”
Jennifer M. Mays, “Countering disablism: an alternative universal income support system based on egalitarianism,” Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2015.
by Toru Yamamori | May 17, 2015 | News
Leon Schreiber, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, argues BIG as ‘silent revolution’.
Leon Schreiber, “Small Yet BIG: The Basic Income Guarantee,” The Huffington Post, 23 April 2015.
by Toru Yamamori | May 16, 2015 | Research
Geoff Crocker proposes ‘a basic income funded by QE in proportion to output GDP and not counted as deficit’ as ‘the only ultimate solution’. This prescription is based on his diagnosis that ‘the delinkage of productivity and real wages is the underlying cause of the 2007 economic crisis.’
Geoff Crocker, “The Economic Necessity of Basic Income,” Munich Personal RePEc Archive, Paper No. 62941, posted 18 March 2015.
by Toru Yamamori | May 15, 2015 | Research
Malcolm Torry, the director of the Citizen’s Income Trust, recently published a working paper that shows two different ways which would be financially feasible.
Malcolm Torry, “Two feasible ways to implement a revenue neutral Citizen’s Income scheme,” April 2015, Euromod Working Paper Series: EM 6/15, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.
