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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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JSTOR EBA.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Where are we today? And how happy are we now that we are here? -- 2. Social equality: why it matters -- 3. The way we used to be and could be again -- 4. How we fell into the memory hole and got to where we are today -- 5. Social democracy forgets its identity: what really ended in 1989? -- 6. Rethinking the state -- 7. Rethinking the past: reimagining the future -- 8. Europe versus America: a summing up. |
| Summary |
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 1920's. 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, reign in the anarchy of big banks by reregulating (or nationalizing) them, and liberate the captive state from the fi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public welfare.
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Public welfare. |
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Equality.
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Equality. |
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Socialism.
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Socialism. |
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Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Luzkow, Jack Lawrence, 1941- Great forgetting. Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2015] 0719096383 (DLC) 2015510421 (OCoLC)894938062 |
| ISBN |
9780719098451 (electronic book) |
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0719098459 (electronic book) |
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0719096383 |
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9780719096389 |
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9780719096396 |
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0719096391 |
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