Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom
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 op…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Preston, John
- ISBN: 978-3-030-57713-1
- EAN: 9783030577131
- Produktnummer: 35375446
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 124 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D0.7 cm 172 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 172
Über den Autor
John Preston is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Rhiannon Firth is Senior Research Officer in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK.
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