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  • The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century

    A Global View

    Jan Breman, Kevan Harris, Ching Kwan Lee, Marcel van der Linden (eds.)

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    Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies enlarged these crises so much that the Social Question has made a comeback.

    This carefully curated volume maps the linked crises across regions and countries and identifies the renewed and intensified Social Question as a labor issue. It includes discussions of American exceptionalism, Chinese repression, Indian exclusion, South African colonialism, democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, and other phenomena. Evaluated here are the effects of capitalism, the impact of the scarcity of waged work, and the degree to which the dispossessed poor bear the brunt of the crisis. Both thorough and thoughtful, the book serves as collective effort to revive and reposition the Social Question, reconstructing its meaning and its politics in the world today.

    “The global approach makes this book a highly innovative endeavor.” NICOLE MAYER-AHUJA, Director, Sociological Research Institute at the University of Göttingen

    “Approaches a familiar debate on the social implications of globalization using a lens that is at once unique, suggestive, and innovative.” EDWARD WEBSTER, Professor Emeritus and Founder of the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand

    JAN BREMAN is Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam and author of On Pauperism in Present and Past. KEVAN HARRIS is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran. CHING KWAN LEE is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of The Specter of Global China. MARCEL VAN DER LINDEN is Senior Fellow and former Director of Research at the International Institute of Social History and author of Workers of the World.

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    Sociology 

    Language: English

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.74

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    How to cite this book
    Breman, J et al. (eds.) 2019. The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.74
    Breman, J., Harris, K., Lee, C.K. and van der Linden, M., 2019. The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.74
    Breman, J, et al.. The Social Question in the Twenty-first Century: A Global View. University of California Press, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.74
    Breman, J., Harris, K., Lee, C. K., & van der Linden, M. (2019). The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.74
    Breman, Jan, Kevan Harris, Ching Kwan Lee, and Marcel van der Linden. 2019. The Social Question in the Twenty-first Century: A Global View. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.74




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