The social question in the twenty-first century : : a global view /

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

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"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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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.
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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.

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