Working-class Politics in Crisis
Author | : Leo Panitch |
Publisher | : London : Verso |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Leo Panitch |
Publisher | : London : Verso |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John McDermott (professor.) |
Publisher | : South End Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780896080140 |
In this classic history and analysis of the successes and failures of modern trade unionism, McDermott provides unorthodox approaches for working-class organization today.
Author | : Ainsley, Claire |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2018-10-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1447344197 |
Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate their interests. So who is now working class and how do political parties gain their support? Based on the opinions and voices of lower and middle income voters, this insightful book proposes what needs to be done to address the issues of the 'new working class'. Outlining the composition, values, and attitudes of the new working class, it provides practical recommendations for political parties to reconnect with the electorate and regain trust.
Author | : Agnes Gagyi |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-08-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030769437 |
Contrary to dominant narratives which portray East European politics as a pendulum swing between democracy and authoritarianism, conventionally defined in terms of an ahistorical cultural geography of East vs. West, this book analyzes post-socialist transformation as part of the long downturn of the post-WWII global capitalist cycle. Based on an empirical comparison of two countries with significantly different political regimes throughout the period, Hungary and Romania, this study shows how different constellations of successive late socialist and post-socialist regimes have managed internal and external class relations throughout the same global crisis process, from very similar positions of semi-peripheral, post-socialist systemic integration. Within this context, the book follows the role of social movements since the 1970s, paying attention both to the level of differences between local integration regimes and to the level of structural similarities of global integration. The analysis maintains a special focus on movements’ class composition and inter-class relationships and the specific position of middle-class politics in movements.
Author | : Joshua B. Freeman |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2021-04-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1620977087 |
A “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demise More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. Largely through the efforts of its working class and the dynamic labor movement it built, New York City became the envied model of liberal America and the scourge of conservatives everywhere: cheap and easy-to-use mass transit, work in small businesses and factories that had good wages and benefits, affordable public housing, and healthcare for all. Working-Class New York is an “engrossing” (Dissent) account of the birth of that ideal and the way it came crashing down. In what Publishers Weekly calls “absorbing and beautifully detailed history,” historian Joshua Freeman shows how the anticommunist purges of the 1950s decimated the ranks of the labor movement and demoralized its idealists, and how the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s dealt another crushing blow to liberal ideals as the city’s wealthy elite made a frenzied grab for power. A grand work of cultural and social history, Working-Class New York is a moving chronicle of a dream that died but may yet rise again.
Author | : Justin Gest |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190632569 |
It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United States and the United Kingdom, economic disenfranchisement, nativist sentiments and fear of the unknown among this group have even inspired the creation of new right-wing parties and resulted in a remarkable level of support for fringe political candidates, most notably Donald Trump. Answers to the question of how to rebuild centrist coalitions in both the U.S. and U.K. have become increasingly elusive. How did a group of people synonymous with Middle Britain and Middle America drift to the ends of the political spectrum? What drives their emerging radicalism? And what could possibly lead a group with such enduring numerical power to, in many instances, consider themselves a "minority" in the countries they once defined? In The New Minority, Justin Gest speaks to people living in once thriving working class cities--Youngstown, Ohio and Dagenham, England--to arrive at a nuanced understanding of their political attitudes and behaviors. In this daring and compelling book, he makes the case that tension between the vestiges of white working class power and its perceived loss have produced the unique phenomenon of white working class radicalization.
Author | : Jacob S. Hacker |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1416588701 |
Analyzes the growing divide between the incomes of the wealthy class and those of middle-income Americans, exonerating popular suspects to argue that the nation's political system promotes greed and under-representation.
Author | : Paul Embery |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2020-11-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509540008 |
The typical contemporary Labour MP is almost certain to be a university-educated Europhile who is more comfortable in the leafy enclaves of north London than the party’s historic heartlands. As a result, Labour has become radically out of step with the culture and values of working-class Britain. Drawing on his background as a firefighter and trade unionist from Dagenham, Paul Embery argues that this disconnect has been inevitable since the Left political establishment swallowed a poisonous brew of economic and social liberalism. They have come to despise traditional working-class values of patriotism, family and faith and instead embraced globalisation, rapid demographic change and a toxic, divisive brand of identity politics. Embery contends that the Left can only revive if it speaks once again to the priorities of working-class people by combining socialist economics with the cultural politics of belonging, place and community. No one who wants to really understand why our politics has become so dysfunctional and what the Left can do to fix it can afford to miss this authentic, insightful and passionate book.
Author | : Jane Berger |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0812253450 |
A New Working Class traces efforts by Black public-sector workers and their unions to fight for racial and economic justice in Baltimore. Federal policy shifts imperiled their efforts. Officials justified weakening the welfare state and strengthening the carceral state by criminalizing Black residents—including government workers.
Author | : Michael Zweig |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2011-11-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0801464781 |
In the second edition of his essential book—which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008—Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also allow those with the dominant power, capitalists, to vanish among the rich. Economic relations then appear as comparisons of income or lifestyle rather than as what they truly are—contests of power, at work and in the larger society.