1. About time : basic income security as a right = 1 2. How basic income is moving up the policy agenda : news from the future = 41 3. Can there be a right to basic income? Raymond Plant = 53 4. Wasteful welfare transactions : why basic income security is fundamental = 69 5. Migration, citizenship and welfare state reform in Europe : overcoming marginalization in segregated labour markets = 83 6. The liberal's dilemma : immigration, social solidarity and basic income = 97 7. The psychological rationale for basic income = 101 8. The limits of production : justifying guaranteed basic income = 107 9. Liberal and Marxist justifications for basic income = 115 10. Basic income, commons and commodities : the public domain revisited = 131 11. 'Calling' : a Christian argument for basic income = 147 12. Social credit as economic modernism : seven theses = 165 13. Deliberative democracy and the legitimacy of basic income = 181 14. Mobilizing support for basic income = 197 15. A legitimate guaranteed minimum income? = 209 16. Republicanism and basic income : the articulation of the public sphere from the repoliticization of the private sphere = 231 17. Working poor in Europe : a partial basic income for workers = 255 18. Basic income, social polarization and the right to work = 273 19. Popular support for basic income in Sweden and Finland = 289 20. The principle of universalism : tracing a key idea in the Scandinavian welfare model = 303 21. Women's politics and social policy in Austria = 327 22. Bio-economics, labour flexibility and cognitive work : why not basic income = 337 23. Exploring ways to reconcile flexible employment with social protection = 351 24. On a path to just distribution : the caregiver credit campaign = 363 25. A care-worker allowance for Germany = 369 26. Feminist arguments in favour of welfare and basic income in Denmark = 385 27. Public support for basic income schemes and a universal right to health care : what the French people think = 407 28. Activation of minimum income and basic income : history of a comparison of two ideas = 433 29. The universal grant and income support in Spain and the Basque country = 467 30. The impact of basic income on the propensity to work : theoretical gambles and microeconometric findings = 483 31. A failure to communicate : the labour market findings of the negative income tax experiments and their effects on policy and public opinion = 503 32. Basic income and the means to self-govern = 543 33. The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend : an experiment in wealth distribution = 553 34. Social citizenship and workfare in the United States and Western Europe : from status to contract = 567