The Dangerous Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dangerous Class write by Clyde Barrow. This book was released on 2020-10-19. The Dangerous Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marx and Engels’ concept of the “lumpenproletariat,” or underclass (an anglicized, politically neutral term), appears in The Communist Manifesto and other writings. It refers to “the dangerous class, the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society,” whose lowly status made its residents potential tools of the capitalists against the working class. Surprisingly, no one has made a substantial study of the lumpenproletariat in Marxist thought until now. Clyde Barrow argues that recent discussions about the downward spiral of the American white working class (“its main problem is that it is not working”) have reactivated the concept of the lumpenproletariat, despite long held belief that it is a term so ill-defined as not to be theoretical. Using techniques from etymology, lexicology, and translation, Barrow brings analytical coherence to the concept of the lumpenproletariat, revealing it to be an inherent component of Marx and Engels’ analysis of the historical origins of capitalism. However, a proletariat that is destined to decay into an underclass may pose insurmountable obstacles to a theory of revolutionary agency in post-industrial capitalism. Barrow thus updates historical discussions of the lumpenproletariat in the context of contemporary American politics and suggests that all post-industrial capitalist societies now confront the choice between communism and dystopia.
The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory
The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory write by J. Sakai. This book was released on 2018-02. The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Precariat
The Precariat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Precariat write by Guy Standing. This book was released on 2021-07-15. The Precariat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at the mall, the carer looking after our elderly...these are The Precariat. Guy Standing investigates this new and growing group, finding a frustrated and angry new underclass who are often ignored by politicians and economists. The rise of zero hours contracts, encouraged by fat cat corporations as risk-free employment, and by silicon valley as a way of outsourcing costs and responsibility, has been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. At the same time, in its experience of lockdown, the western world is realizing the true value of these nurses, carers and key workers. The answer? The return of income security and meaningful work - the principles 20th century capitalism was built on. By making the fears and desires of the Precariat central to economic thinking, Standing shows how concepts like Basic Income are not just desirable but inevitable, and plots the way to a better future.
The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them
The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them write by Charles Loring Brace. This book was released on 2023-06-12. The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Controlling the Dangerous Classes
Controlling the Dangerous Classes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Controlling the Dangerous Classes write by Randall G. Shelden. This book was released on 2008. Controlling the Dangerous Classes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text covers the history of criminal justice from a critical perspective and explores the historical biases of the criminal justice system. The overall theme of this book is that both the making of laws and the interpretation and application of these laws throughout the history of the criminal justice system has, historically, been class, gender, and racially biased. Moreover, one of the major functions of the criminal justice system has been to control those from the most disadvantaged sectors of the population, that is, the "dangerous classes." This theme is explored using a historical model, tracing the development of criminal law through the development of the police institution, the juvenile justice system, and the prison system.
