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