Firth Rhiannon
Firth Rhiannon - Coronavirus Class And Mutual Aid In The United Kingdom - Paperback
Firth Rhiannon - Coronavirus Class And Mutual Aid In The United Kingdom - Paperback
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Description: This book considers how the UK government's response to the recent Covid - 19 pandemic disadvantages the working class and how mutual aid based on anarchist principles can be used as a force for social change. The authors draw on Marxist and anarchist thought in class theory and social movement analysis to demonstrate that the virus and its material and discursive consequences are an active part of continuing class struggle and class interpolation. Preston and Firth examine how plans for quarantine and social isolation systematically work against the needs of the working class and rely on classed assumptions about how markets and altruism operate. In the face of neoliberal methods of dealing with a pandemic ranging from marketization disaster capitalism to a strengthening of the State Coronavirus Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom explains how radical alternatives such as social movements and mutual aid can be implemented to better cope with current and future crises.
Title: Coronavirus Class And Mutual Aid In The United Kingdom
Author(s): Firth Rhiannon
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland Ag
Barcode: 9783030577131
Pages: 116 Pages, Vii, 116 P.
Publication Date: 11/26/2020
Category: Social Theory
Description: This book considers how the UK government's response to the recent Covid - 19 pandemic disadvantages the working class and how mutual aid based on anarchist principles can be used as a force for social change. The authors draw on Marxist and anarchist thought in class theory and social movement analysis to demonstrate that the virus and its material and discursive consequences are an active part of continuing class struggle and class interpolation. Preston and Firth examine how plans for quarantine and social isolation systematically work against the needs of the working class and rely on classed assumptions about how markets and altruism operate. In the face of neoliberal methods of dealing with a pandemic ranging from marketization disaster capitalism to a strengthening of the State Coronavirus Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom explains how radical alternatives such as social movements and mutual aid can be implemented to better cope with current and future crises.
Title: Coronavirus Class And Mutual Aid In The United Kingdom
Author(s): Firth Rhiannon
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland Ag
Barcode: 9783030577131
Pages: 116 Pages, Vii, 116 P.
Publication Date: 11/26/2020
Category: Social Theory
