Relative Deprivation and Social Justice: A Study of Attitudes to Social Inequality in Twentieth-Century England.W. G. Runciman

This chapter presents the salient features of the Epoch of Ecological Extremes contributing to the development of Dust Bowl conditions today. The twentieth century was deemed “the Age of Extremes.” It is clear, however, that the twenty-first century is poised to surpass the twentieth to become the Epoch of Ecological Extremes. Today the interconnected issues precipitating the new Dust Bowl era are the culmination of increasingly extreme exploitation—in terms of scale and technique—of the land, of the planet's hydrocarbon repositories, and of freshwater systems. As with the 1930s Dust Bowl, this extreme abuse of the global commons is mirrored in the extreme politics required to make such destruction possible. Also like the 1930s, these developments are associated with high levels of expropriation, social inequality, oppression, and dislocation.

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Liberalism & the Liberal StateFurious Fancies: American Political Thought in the Post-Liberal Era. By Philip Abbott Social Justice in the Liberal State. By Bruce A. Ackerman Political Philosophy and the Issues of Politics. By Joseph Cropsey The Collapse of Liberal Empire: Science and Revolution in the Twentieth Century. By Paul N. Goldstene Approaches to Democracy: Philosophy of Government at the Close of the Twentieth Century. By W. J. Stankiewicz

Polity ◽

10.2307/3234472 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 701-710

Author(s):

Gerald M. Bonetto

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Social Justice ◽

Political Thought ◽

Liberal State ◽

American Political Thought

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Immoral Traffic: Mobility, Health, Labor, and the “Lorry Girl” in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

Journal of British Studies ◽

10.1017/jbr.2013.118 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 693-721 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Julia Laite

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Social Inequality ◽

Venereal Disease ◽

Men And Women ◽

Sexual Danger

AbstractThe story of the lorry girl and the lorry driver, the roads they traveled on, and the responses toward them allows for some telling insights into a strange kind of “immoral traffic” in 1930s and 1950s Britain. Whether seeking employment or adventure, leaving the “distressed areas” or absconding from an approved school, the lorry girl was linked to anxieties about women's mobility, unemployment, venereal disease, and delinquency. At the same time, the figure of the lorry driver, both romanticized and marginalized, showed that deviant and commercialized sexuality could be linked to the economic and social inequality of both men and women. Concerns about lorry jumping and hitchhiking in this period also reveal a different kind of narrative in the development of British roadways, which not only were tied to both the health and efficiency of the nation but also were spaces of sexual danger and sites of social delinquency.

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Left Coast Catholicism: The Tradition of Dissent in the California Church

Roman Catholicism in the United States ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823282760.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 63-85

Author(s):

Jeffrey M. Burns

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Social Justice ◽

Local Church ◽

Concerted Action ◽

Openness To Change ◽

California Missions ◽

Social Teachings ◽

The Church

This chapter argues that independence, innovation, bold action, and openness to change—traditions uniquely nurtured in California from its beginnings—shaped Catholic experience in the Golden State. It presents a treatment of the formative California missions that focuses on the “first dissenter,” Fray José Maria Fernandez, a critic of the exploitation of Indians in the late 1790s who was persecuted by enemies (and later by many historians) as mad or brain-damaged, yet endured in his advocacy work. In the twentieth century, California Catholics engaged issues of great importance for the whole church; the local church engaged in vigorous dialogue that addressed questions of work and social justice with a directness and intensity rarely witnessed in eastern cities, where ethnic tribalism so often undermined concerted action, especially action that called the church to account for failures to practice its own social teachings.

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