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In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death of the welfare state. These programs' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass unemployment, Ferguson argues, provide an opportunity for rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of political mobilization. Interested in an emerging "politics of distribution," Ferguson shows how new demands for direct income payments (including so-called "basic income") require us to reexamine the relation between production and distribution, and to ask new questions about markets, livelihoods, labor, and the future of progressive politics.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2015Print ISBN
9780822358862, 9780822358954eBook ISBN
9780822375524Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword by Thomas Gibson
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Cash Transfers and the New Welfare States: From Neoliberalism to the Politics of Distribution
- 1. Give a Man a Fish: From Patriarchal Productionism to the Revalorization of Distribution
- 2. What Comes after the Social?: Historicizing the Future of Social Protection in Africa
- 3. Distributed Livelihoods: Dependence and the Labor of Distribution in the Lives of the Southern African Poor (and Not-So-Poor)
- 4. The Social Life of Cash Payments: Money, Markets, and the Mutualities of Poverty
- 5. Declarations of Dependence: Labor, Personhood, and Welfare in Southern Africa
- 6. A Rightful Share: Distribution beyond Gift and Market
- Conclusion. What Next for Distributive Politics?
- Notes
- References
- Index