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

The Resource The social question in the twenty-first century : a global view
Label
The social question in the twenty-first century : a global view
Title remainder
a global view
Statement of responsibility
edited by Jan Breman, Kevan Harris, Ching Kwan Lee, and Marcel van der Linden
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
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
Cataloging source
PUL
Dewey number
306.3
Index
index present
LC call number
HD4855
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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