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The Right to Work, Way of Social Exclusion? Basic Income as a Guarantee to the Right to Work

In: Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century

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  • José Luis
  • Rey Pérez

Abstract

Karl Polanyi, in his famous book The Great Transformation, wrote, “Labor is only another name for a human activity which goes with life itself, which in its turn is not produced for sale but for entirely different reasons, nor can that activity be detached from the rest of life, be stored or mobilized.”1 Many decades after, the proper meaning of the right to work is an important topic in discussions of social rights. This is not surprising if we take into account the central role played by the right to work in the development of the welfare state. When the crisis of the welfare state began and unemployment rates not only rose but also remained at high levels, the achievability of the right to work in Western economies began to be questioned. Unemployment today is a structural element of our economies, and this has led inevitably to a reassessment of the right to work.

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  • José Luis & Rey Pérez, 2007. "The Right to Work, Way of Social Exclusion? Basic Income as a Guarantee to the Right to Work," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century, chapter 5, pages 95-111, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-60718-7_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230607187_6
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