Unprecedented? : how COVID-19 revealed the politics of our economy

• Autore: Davies William
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Goldsmiths, University London, , 2022; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 pages)
• Disciplina: 941.0862
• Soggetto topico: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- - Economic aspects - Great Britain; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- - Political aspects - Great Britain; Economic history; Economics; Equality; Politics and government
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Altri autori: DuttaSahil Jai TaylorNick TazzioliMartina
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political-economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.
• Altri titoli varianti: Unprecedented?
• Titolo autorizzato: Unprecedented
• ISBN: 1-913380-11-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910725065203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers