A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Experimenting with Wellbeing: Basic Income, Immaterial Labour and Changing Forms of Productivity
Authors: Adkins Lisa, Ylöstalo Hanna
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Publication year: 2020
Journal: Critical Sociology
Journal name in source: CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY
Journal acronym: CRIT SOCIOL
Article number: UNSP 0896920520940011
Number of pages: 15
ISSN: 0896-9205
eISSN: 1569-1632
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920520940011
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920520940011
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/49260158
This article is concerned with the recent (2017-2018) basic income experiment in Finland. This experiment attracted global attention, not least because of its break from the conditionalities and sanctions associated with social security payments in workfare states. This article stresses, however, that it is critical to understand how the Finnish basic income experiment was part of a broader programme of government-led reform in Finland. As well as establishing the experiment as a preferred mode of policymaking, this programme contained a range of strategies aimed at restructuring labour supply. The article shows how the basic income experiment should be understood as a behavioural intervention designed to enhance the wellbeing of unemployed populations at a time when wellbeing is emerging as a value-producing capacity.
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