Challenging Alienation in the British Working-Class : Building a Community of Equals

• Autore: Taylor Hill Sam
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 pages)
• Disciplina: 331.0941
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Motivating Questions and Methodology -- Shape of the Book -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Situating Idealist-Socialism -- Alienation and Exploitation -- The Right-Communitarian Position -- Evaluating This Position -- A Nationalist Framing for Non-Alienation -- Communitarianism -- Idealism -- Higher-Self and Moral Character -- From Idealism to Socialism -- Socialism -- Capitalism and the Dignity of Labour -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Defining the 'Working-Class' -- Bourdieusian Class Theory -- Factoring Sub-groups into Class -- Working-Class(es)? -- Shared Occupational and Economic Characteristics -- Culture and Class -- Nation -- Community and its Values -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Defining Alienation -- Hegel -- Marx -- Macintyre -- Rootedness -- Macintyre's Narrative -- Defining Alienation -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Is the Working-Class Alienated? -- Dignity: Is Working-Class Dignity in Decline? -- Meritocracy and the Knowledge Economy -- Tyranny of Merit -- De-Valuation -- Capitalist Culture -- Why Does This Constitute Alienation? -- Community: Is a Working-Class Sense of Community in Decline? -- Structural Decline and Isolation -- Culture Crisis -- Intra-Class Hostility -- Culture, Structure, and Identity Politics -- Disconnection from a National Narrative -- Populist-Nationalism -- Why Does Community Decline Mean Alienation? -- Agency: Is Working-Class Agency in Decline? -- Structural Change -- Phase 1 -- Phase 2 -- Phase 3 -- The Party of the Middle Class and the Problem of Structural Exclusion -- Assessing the Narrative of Structural Exclusion -- Why Alienation? -- Conclusion: The Case for Working-Class Alienation -- Dignity -- Community -- Agency -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: The Ethics of British Idealism -- The Higher-Self -- Moral Character. ; Moral Character and Human Flourishing -- Human Flourishing -- The State and the Society of Societies -- Common Good -- Pluralism and Equal Worth -- A Lived Good of Mutual Recognition -- Nonselfishness and Nonexploitation -- Ethical Citizenship -- The Reconciliatory State and the Common Good -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Developing Idealist-Socialism -- The Ethics of British Idealism and the Guild Socialist Debt to It -- Socialist Pluralism and the Society of Societies -- The State and Civil Society -- The Laskian Model -- Capitalism -- The Socialist Ideal -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Progressive Nationalism -- Why Begin with Patriotism? -- Viroli's Patriotism -- Anti-Nationalism -- Re-Conceptualising Nationalism -- Progressive Nationalism or Patriotism? -- In Defence of Culture/The Importance of Culture -- What Is the National Narrative, and What Is the British Nation? -- How Does One Determine Something to Be British? -- Constructing This Identity -- Balancing Culture Within National Identity -- Culture In-Itself -- What Does This Macro Constitute? -- Conclusion: Why Does This Address Alienation? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Progressive Nationalism Applied to Our Economic Life -- Assessing the Intentions of Worker Control -- Recognition and Acknowledgement -- Fairness, Solidarity, and Equity -- Voice and Autonomy -- Vocation and Autonomy -- Autonomy and Belonging -- The Ownership Critique -- Conclusion -- Pay Ratios and the Question of Dignity -- Policy Direction -- Assessing Pay Ratios -- Psychological and Social Impacts -- Material Improvement -- Social Obligation -- Other Factors -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: An Ethos for Civil Society -- Membership-Belonging -- Relational-Belonging -- Pluralism and Belonging -- The Good of Acknowledgement -- Recognition -- Recognition and Education. ; The Reconciliatory State -- Symbolic Inclusion and the State -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Building a Community of Equals -- Policies and Principles -- Rooting Agency and Dignity in the Economy -- Civil Society Expansion -- The Propagation of a Tangible Progressive Nationalism -- A Contribution to Contemporary Debate -- Opportunities for Further Research and Recommendations -- Final Thoughts -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Challenging Alienation in the British Working-Class
• ISBN: 9783031592508; 9783031592492
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910865293403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series