03855nam 22006373 450 991072506520332120230629223954.01-913380-11-4(CKB)4900000001457234(MiAaPQ)EBC6940985(Au-PeEL)EBL6940985(OCoLC)1311316446(NjHacI)994900000001457234(EXLCZ)99490000000145723420220509d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUnprecedented? how COVID-19 revealed the politics of our economyCambridge :Goldsmiths, University London,2022.©2022.1 online resource (194 pages)Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers1-913380-12-2 Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- 1 The Great Interruption -- Wells of Value: Sovereign Debts, Care Debts -- Sovereignty -- Care -- Entering a New Crisis - Or Exiting an Old One? -- A Crisis of Space -- Hyper-domestication -- Platformisation -- Re-bordering -- A New Spatial Fix? -- Conclusion: What Makes 'Society'? -- 2 Endless Temporary Measures: The Politics of 'Leverage' -- Paper Promises: Rising Indebtedness Pre-pandemic -- The Lockdown Economy: Building the Bridge -- The City -- The High Street -- The Response -- Public Money, Public Services, Private Gain -- Conclusion: Who Gains When Others Pay? -- 3 New Divisions of Labour: The Politics of 'Flexibility' -- Failing to Work: Labour Markets Before the Pandemic -- Flexibility and Contingent Work -- Welfare, Austerity and 'Work First' Policy -- Work in the Pandemic -- Key workers -- 'Working from Home': Paid and Unpaid -- Furlough, Unemployment and the Misrepresentation of Official Statistics -- Conclusion: What Was Revealed? -- 4 Confine and Track: The Politics of 'Protection' -- The Border-Industrial Complex -- The 'Confinement Continuum' During Covid-19 -- Digital Health Infrastructures -- What Was Revealed? -- 5 Education without Context: The Politics of 'Learning' -- Before 2020 -- Austerity Logics -- Platform Logics -- Education Under Lockdown -- Policy Challenges -- Winners and Losers -- Conclusion: What Was Revealed? -- 6 Escaping Rentier Nationalism -- Distinguishing 'Rentier Nationalism' -- Heterodoxy Reigns -- Searching for a New Paradigm -- Reclaiming of Public Space -- Sustaining Anger -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Index.A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political-economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.Goldsmiths Press / PERC PapersUnprecedented?COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-Economic aspectsGreat BritainCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-Political aspectsGreat BritainEconomic historyfast(OCoLC)fst00901974Economicsfast(OCoLC)fst00902116Equalityfast(OCoLC)fst00914456Politics and governmentfast(OCoLC)fst01919741Great BritainfastHistory.fastCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-Economic aspectsCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-Political aspectsEconomic history.Economics.Equality.Politics and government.941.0862Davies William673821Dutta Sahil Jai1359823Taylor Nick1234257Tazzioli Martina475441MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910725065203321Unprecedented3374939UNINA