The Return of Ordinary Capitalism

Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20009118
AutoresF Schram (0000-0002-3158-9941, autor correspondente), Sanford F Schram (0000-0003-4282-3286)
Ano2015
Páginas272
Data de publicação2015-10-05
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoReturn of Ordinary Capitalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190253011.001.0001
OpenAlexW4230627017
Open LibraryOL29270976M
ISBN9780190253011
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas56

This volume plumbs the depths of neoliberalism as the prevailing political‐economic logic of the current era of increasing inequality. Chapters address how it contributes to the growing economic insecurity of ordinary people in recent decades, the concomitant hollowing out of the welfare state, the ongoing marketization of social welfare programs, the increasing reliance on the private sector for developing, implementing, and even financing social programs, and resultant political responses on both the left and the right (Occupy and the Tea Party in particular). Neoliberalism's constraints on politics as well as social and economic policy are examined. Special attention is given to the role of protest politics in keeping alive the possibilities for political action in an age of neoliberal constraints on the ability of ordinary people to exercise political agency. The book concludes with consideration of political strategizing for working through rather than around neoliberalism via a radical, rather than status‐quo reinforcing, incrementalism

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