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The great forgetting : The past, present and future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State / / Jack Lawrence Luzkow



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Autore: Luzkow Jack Lawrence <1941-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The great forgetting : The past, present and future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State / / Jack Lawrence Luzkow Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, [England] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 pages)
Disciplina: 320.1/1
Soggetto topico: Socialism
Public welfare
Equality
Economic policy
Soggetto non controllato: Adam Smith
Alexis De Tocqueville
Anglo-America
Beatrice Webb
European social democracies
European social model
Grand Narrative
Great Depression
John Stuart Mill
Matthew Arnold
Milton Friedman
economic inequality
free market
globalization
social model
unemployment rates
welfare state
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 1. Where are we today? And how happy are we now that we are here? -- 2. Social equality: why it matters -- 3. The way we used to be and could be again -- 4. How we fell into the memory hole and got to where we are today -- 5. Social democracy forgets its identity: what really ended in 1989? -- 6. Rethinking the state -- 7. Rethinking the past: reimagining the future -- 8. Europe versus America: a summing up.
Sommario/riassunto: Today the US and the UK are at a crossroads. Millions are out of work, millions (in the US) are still deprived of health care, millions have lost their homes, and we are collectively more unequal than we have been since the 1920s. Both countries will experience massive social upheavals if they don't reduce social inequality, invest massively in education and infrastructure, commit themselves to securing jobs for all who want them, change tax structures that coddle the 1 percent, rein in the anarchy of big banks by reregulating (or nationalising) them, and liberate the captive state from the financial institutions of Wall Street and the City of London.Social inequality is neither inevitable, nor the result of globalisation. It is the outcome of social and economic policies embraced by the 1 percent. This can be reversed by more social democracy, not less, by recovering the state for the 99 percent.
Titolo autorizzato: The great forgetting  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7190-9845-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910798744703321
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