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

• TeilnehmendeR: Breman, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) :; illustrations, maps
• Notes: Includes index.

"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.

Table of 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.