The Mexican<i>Oportunidades</i>Program: Questioning the Linking of Security to Conditional Social Investments for Mothers and Children

Luccisano, Lucy

doi:10.1080/08263663.2006.10816902

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“…For Bolsa Família recipients, the relevant contrast is between household management and ownership. The Real other is the man, whose ownership claim ('the owner of the house') stands in contraposition to the woman's managerial position (see Lavinas and Nicoll 2006;Suárez and Libardoni 2007;Mariana and Carloto 2009;Pires 2009Pires , 2013Gomes 2010;Rego and Pinzani 2013 on feminist reads of Bolsa Família; also see the journal special edition that features Pires 2013; for CCTs outside of Brazil, see Luccisano 2006;Molyneux 2009;Gruenberg 2010).…”

Section: The Journal Of Peasant Studiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Managing transience: Bolsa Família and its subjects in an MST landless settlement

Morton¹

2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Managing transience: Bolsa Família and its subjects in an MST landless settlement

Morton¹

2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…See also Kittay, 1999; also the section on Dominator Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Eisler (2012). Among recent empirical studies of gender-based policies, Khogali and Takhar (2001) point to successes, Gitter and Barham (2008) point to unclear outcomes, Molyneux and Thomson (2011) highlight a variety of factors, and Luccisano (2006) notes the role that conditional receipt of benefits and administrators of those benefits play, and, like Robeyns (2014), is concerned with reifying gender roles. Braido et al (2012) document outright failures.…”

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Core Support for the New Economy

Goodwin

2017

IJPS

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This paper proposes an income guarantee called Core Support (CS), defined as compensation for household activities such as childcare, food preparation, care of elderly or ill persons in the home, and maintenance of the home and of household vehicles and appliances. The immediate goals of the proposal are to highlight, through compensation, the reality that the productive activities carried on in households are of essential importance for the whole economy and society, and to enable the people who carry out these essential activities to do so without having to short-change the care work because of the need to earn money through the market. The CS concept builds on literature on Basic Income Guarantees (BIG) and on feminist economics, which tends to be skeptical of BIG proposals. By addressing intra-household allocations, CS shows how a basic income system can promote a more caring democracy and a more partnership-oriented socioeconomic system that rewards the essential work of care. Appendix A surveys seven ways by which such a program could be financed.Keywords: basic income, care economy, core economy, intra-household distribution, unpaid work, women's work, gender norms, feminist economics, valuation, GDP Copyright: ©2017 Goodwin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Noncommercial Attribution license (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows for unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and adaptation, provided that the original author and source are credited. THE MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS THAT WILL AFFECT WHAT IS POSSIBLE AND WHAT IS DESIRABLEIn 1930 John Maynard Keynes anticipated that, due to the rapidity of technological change that was making labor ever more productive, "in our own lifetimes … we may be able to perform all the operations of agriculture, mining, and manufacture with a quarter of the human effort to which we have been accustomed." He predicted that by the time of his generation's grandchildren "the economic problem" -the struggle for subsistence -would be solved. (Keynes, 1930, pp. 3-4) 1 In one respect we could say that this prediction has been fulfilled: there is already enough global productive capacity so that a comfortable subsistence could be provided for all humans. That this is not the actual result -that a quarter of the human population still lives in situations of abject poverty -is not because we are technologically incapable. Rather, it is because the prevailing economic systems provide some people, but not all, with the means to be highly productive, in the sense of producing much that is valued in the world's markets; while others can barely produce enough for their own needs, or they work at jobs whose output is rewarded with very low pay.The essential assumption underlying Keynes' prediction was a continuing rise in labor productivity -that is, the average amount of goods or services that one person can produce. This trend has been observable ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, in the 18 th century. What has ...

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“…What is also not evaluated is the increased familial level of stress and anxiety caused by the threat of removal from the program. A documented co‐responsibility failure can also be the result of ill will on the part of teachers and medical staff who feel burdened by this additional responsibility (Luccisano 2006, 73).…”

Section: Mexico: Cctmentioning

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Comparing Public Social Provision and Citizenship in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: Are There Implications for a North American Space?

Luccisano

Romagnoli

2007

Politics & Policy

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This study compares the reform of public social provision in the United States, Canada, and Mexico from 1996 to 2006. It highlights important parallels among the three countries in terms of policy design, discourses that frame each policy, and the ways social citizenship has become reconfigured. We argue that in all three cases, poor women/mothers are being regulated, monitored, and held accountable through surveillance and sanctions, reinforcing how social rights have morphed into social responsibilities and obligations. The objective is to shift welfare from “passive” support to “active” integration into the market, reinforcing a worker‐citizen model within precarious labor markets. The Canadian model shares elements with the U.S. model in its emphasis on welfare‐to‐work policies and integrating single mothers with young children into the workforce. The Mexican model integrates mothers as consumers into the market while investing in their children as future worker‐citizens. The article concludes by broadening the discussion from country‐specific analysis to speculating about the possibility of integrating workers within a North American market.

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The MexicanOportunidadesProgram: Questioning the Linking of Security to Conditional Social Investments for Mothers and Children

Cited by 18 publications

References 9 publications

Managing transience: Bolsa Família and its subjects in an MST landless settlement

Managing transience: Bolsa Família and its subjects in an MST landless settlement

Core Support for the New Economy

Comparing Public Social Provision and Citizenship in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: Are There Implications for a North American Space?

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