2021/09/13 by Hanna Ketterer
Social Sciences · #Social Policy and Reform Studies #Social and Cultural Dynamics #Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/00380261211034674
openalex publication_date 2021/09/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
This article examines the idea that basic income has transformative power. It does so by scrutinising Erik O. Wright’s theory of transformation from a feminist-Bourdieusian perspective. Rather than assuming a direct link between basic income and actors’ turning away from the capitalist labour market, this is a perspective that emphasises conditions of possibilities for practices beyond paid work and employment. To explore actors’ practices, I analyse how basic income would interact with both the objectified social structures and incorporated dispositions – above all, with actors’ dominant disposition to paid work. I argue that for basic income to transform capitalism, a transformation of the habitus is needed.