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Title: The Great Forgetting
Condition: New
EAN: 9780719096396
ISBN: 9780719096396
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 01/04/2015
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Language: English
Subtitle: The Past, Present and Future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State
ISBN-10: 0719096391
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Author: Jack Lawrence Luzkow
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Year: 2015
Description:

Today the US and the UK are at a crossroads. Millions are out of work, millions (in the US) are still deprived of health care, millions have lost their homes, and we are collectively more unequal than we have been since the 1920s. Both countries will experience massive social upheavals if they don’t reduce social inequality, invest massively in education and infrastructure, commit themselves to securing jobs for all who want them, change tax structures that coddle the 1 percent, rein in the anarchy of big banks by reregulating (or nationalising) them, and liberate the captive state from the financial institutions of Wall Street and the City of London.

Social inequality is neither inevitable, nor the result of globalisation. It is the outcome of social and economic policies embraced by the 1 percent. This can be reversed by more social democracy, not less, by recovering the state for the 99 percent.

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