The social question in the twenty-first century : a global view / edited by Jan Breman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breman, Jan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Social aspects.

Capitalism.

Labor.

Labor--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2019

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Want. Disease. Ignorance. Squalor. Idleness. Taken together, these comprise the 'giant evils' expressed in the Social Question--first raised in mid-nineteenth-century Europe to diagnose the crises produced by the emergence of the industrial society. Due to a globalized switch to neoliberalism in the final quarter of the twentieth century, the Social Question has made a worldwide comeback. The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century maps out the linked crises across regions and countries and identifies the renewed and intensified social question as a labor issue above all. The volume includes discussions from every corner of the globe, focusing on American exceptionalism, Chinese repression, Indian exclusion, South African colonialism, democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, and other phenomena. The effects of capitalism dominating the world, the impact of the scarcity of waged work, and the acknowledgment of how the dispossessed poor bear the brunt of the crisis are all evaluated in this carefully curated volume. Both thorough and thoughtful, the book serves as collective effort to revive and reposition the Social Question, reconstructing its meaning and its politics in the world today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface : the terrifying convergence of the three worlds of "the social question" / Göran Therborn

The social question all over again / by the editors

The social question in Western Europe : past and present / Marcel van der Linden

The end of American exceptionalism : the social question in the United States / Fred Block

The social question as the struggle over precarity : the case of China / Ching Kwan Lee

Migrants, mobilizations and selective hegemony in Mekong Asia's SEZs / Dennis Arnold

A mirage of welfare : how the social question in India got aborted / Jan Breman

The labor question and dependent capitalism : the case of Latin America / Ronaldo Munck

Labor and land struggles in a Brazilian steel town : the re-organization of capital under neo-extractivism / Massimilliano Mollona

From poverty to informality? : the social question in Africa in a historical perspective / Andreas Eckert

The social question in South Africa : from settler colonialism to neoliberal-era democracy / Ben Scully

The social question in the Middle East : past and present / Kevan Harris

Post-socialist contradictions : "the social question" in Central and Eastern Europe and the making of the "illiberal" right / Don Kalb

The social question in Russia : from de-politicization to a growing sense of exploitation / Karine Clément

Postscript : the social question in its global incarnation / by the editors.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520972483

OCLC:

1085576967