The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century : A Global View

The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century A Global View

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the "giant evil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Breman, Jan (Editor), Breman, Jan, editor (editor), Harris, Kevan, editor, Lee, Ching Kwan, editor, Linden, Marcel van der, 1952- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland University of California Press 2019
Berkeley, CA : [2019]
Materias:
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Equality > Economic aspects.
Labor > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness.
20th century.
american exceptionalism.
capitalism.
chinese repression.
democratic transitions in eastern europe.
disease.
giant evils.
idleness.
ignorance.
indian exclusion.
industrial society.
labor issue.
neoliberal policies.
politics.
poor people.
scarcity of waged work.
social question.
south african colonialism.
squalor.
want.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface: The Terrifying Convergence of the Three Worlds of the "Social Question"
  • 1. The Social Question All Over Again
  • 2. The Social Question in Western Europe: Past and Present
  • 3. The End of American Exceptionalism: The Social Question in the United States
  • 4. The Social Question as the Struggle over Precarity: The Case of China
  • 5. Migrants, Mobilizations, and Selective Hegemony in Mekong Asia's Special Economic Zones
  • 6. A Mirage of Welfare: How the Social Question in India Got Aborted
  • 7. The Labor Question and Dependent Capitalism: The Case of Latin America
  • 8. Labor and Land Struggles in a Brazilian Steel Town: The Reorganization of Capital under Neo-Extractivism
  • 9. From Poverty to Informality? The Social Question in Africa in a Historical Perspective
  • 10. The Social Question in South Africa: From Settler Colonialism to Neoliberal-Era Democracy
  • 11. The Social Question in the Middle East: Past and Present
  • 12. Post-Socialist Contradictions: The Social Question in Central and Eastern Europe and the Making of the Illiberal Right
  • 13. The Social Question in Russia: From De-Politicization to a Growing Sense of Exploitation
  • 14. Postscript: The Social Question in Its Global Incarnation
  • Index

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