scholarly journals Economic Insecurity and Social Stability: An Exploration of One of Capitalism’s Vicious Cycles

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052097025
Author(s):  
Costas Panayotakis
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Political Democracy ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Post War

This article analyzes how capitalism’s connection to economic insecurity can, rather than fomenting social unrest, facilitate its reproduction. Also responding to contrasts in the literature between rising insecurity in recent decades and the containment of insecurity in capitalism’s post-war “golden age,” this article explains why growing insecurity is more consistent with capitalism’s normal operation. Underlining the difficulty of replicating post-war efforts to mitigate insecurity through social and welfare policies, this article also sketches how the vicious cycle between capitalism and economic insecurity contributes to other serious social problems, including racism, sexism, xenophobia, the hollowing out of political democracy, and a deepening ecological crisis.

The Good Person and the Bad Citizen: History, Class, and Sociality

2018 ◽  
pp. 58-84
Author(s):  
Insa Lee Koch
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
White Male ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Good Person ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Post War ◽  
Nuclear Household

Chapter 2 introduces the building blocks of an alternative political–moral order, as viewed from the perspective of council estate residents. It argues that official understandings of deservingness and respectability have at times dovetailed with, but more often diverged from, what residents understand to be a righteous person and by extension also a rightful citizen who is deserving of public resources and protection. In the post-war period, a fragile moral union existed between paternalistic welfare policies that prioritised the white, male-headed nuclear household and tenants’ aspirations for respectable homes and neighbourhoods. This fragile moral union, however, became dismantled in the decades that followed, when the ideal of the worker-citizen was replaced by that of the consumer-citizen and those renting on council estates increasingly seen as subjects of failure and lack. Today, working class residents’ own understandings of what makes a good person, based on their reliance on informal networks of support and care, stand in stark contrast to classed portrayals that see them as citizens of lack.

Reducing Inequalities

2019 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. R75-R82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Jones ◽  
John Llewellyn
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Direct Taxation ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Perceived Unfairness

Executive SummaryA backlash against numerous inequalities – and in particular against perceived unfairness in society – is a significant driver of the UK's current political malaise. Addressing inequalities between income groups, regions and generations will thus be key to re-establishing faith in government and avoiding further decline or even the threat of social unrest.In income terms, the UK has become much more unequal than in the immediate post-war decades, and it should be a goal to reverse that trend – targeting the OECD average for income inequality and a halving of the number of those living below the poverty line. Measures to deal with perceived unfairnesses could include tighter scrutiny of competition in high-yielding sectors such as technology, and incentives for the appointment of worker representatives to company boards. But a government intent on tackling inequalities will inescapably need to raise public spending and direct taxation of income and capital from their current historically low levels. In particular spending on education and active labour market policies needs to increase, while gaps in the benefits system and regional imbalances are addressed.Given the scale of technological change and the severe implications for the labour market, the risk is that policy will be insufficiently bold to deal with widespread disenchantment, which could ultimately pose a threat to democracy.

Research on the Disputes Respond Strategy of State-Owned Coal Enterprises

2014 ◽  
Vol 521 ◽  
pp. 797-800
Author(s):  
Wen Han Yuan ◽  
Qing Gao Qian
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Action Orientation ◽  
Coal Enterprises

The disputes between the state-owned coal enterprises and mine surrounding farmers are gradually highlighted social problems which affect social stability and local economic development. This paper mainly analyze these disputes based on the perspective of the state-owned coal mine enterprises, by means of elaborating the interests expression, action orientation and behavioral pattern of farmers in the disputes, try to explain the pattern, skills and method taken by the enterprises in the dispose of disputes, and then analyze the three logics including mollification patter, disintegration skills and cooperation method in the disputes which the enterprises followed with to solve problems. Finally, conclusion is the logics in the dispose of disputes which the enterprises taken are determined by the characteristic of disputes practice.

scholarly journals The paradox of emancipation: Populism, democracy and the soul of the Left

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1186-1207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albena Azmanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
Redistribution Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
Reading History

What is the connection between the surge of populism and the deflation of electoral support to traditional left-leaning ideological positions? How can we explain the downfall of the Left in conditions that should be propelling it to power? In its reaction both to the neo-liberal hegemony and to the rise of populism, I claim that the Left is afflicted by what Nietzsche called ‘a democratic prejudice’ – the reflex of reading history as the advent of democracy and its crisis. As a result, the Left now undertakes to recover democracy by resurrecting the growth-and-redistribution policy set that was a trademark of the ‘golden age’ of social democracy in the three post-war decades. This nostalgic gesture, however, is leading the Left into another predicament, which I call the ‘paradox of emancipation’ – while fighting for equality and inclusion as essential conditions for democratic citizenship, the Left is validating the social order within which equality and inclusion are being sought – namely, order shaped by the competitive production of profit which is the root cause of our societies’ plight. The analysis concludes with a proposal for building a counter-hegemony against neo-liberal capitalism by means of enlarging the Left’s focus beyond its traditional concerns with inequality and exclusion, to address also the injustice of growing social and economic insecurity – a harm whose reach surpasses the working poor. Reformulating an agenda of social justice around issues of economic insecurity that cross the ‘class divide’ would allow the Left to mobilize a broad coalition of social forces for radical and lasting change in the direction of socialist democracy.

Chinese Society in 2016: Stable but under Tightened Control

2017 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei SHAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
The Government

China enjoyed a relatively “stable” and peaceful 2016. This did not mean that social problems had been addressed, but indicated that the authorities had strengthened their capacity to maintain social stability. The middle class’ rising grievances over the deteriorating environment and the incompetent legal system have aroused collective action in cyberspace. The government has strengthened its control of non-governmental organisations and public opinion on the internet.

scholarly journals Symposium: Unemployment in New Zealand (Part One) Introduction: Unemployment and its consequences

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Easton
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War

Research on unemployment in New Zealand is not as widespread as in most affluent economies, no doubt partly reflecting that for the post-war period up to the late 1960s unemployment, however measured, and the social problems arising from it were small. In the 1970s, unemployment began to increase sharply, reflecting difficulties in economic performance, and its social consequences became a matter of public concern.

Soziale Marktwirtschaft damals und heute

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Gunther Schnabl
Keyword(s):  
Political Stability ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Soziale Marktwirtschaft ◽  
Post War ◽  
Social Market ◽  
German Currency ◽  
Competition Growth

AbstractThe German currency reform on 20 June 1948, together with a comprehensive liberalization of prices as well as monopoly control formed the basis for the post-war West German economic miracle, which became the economic backbone of the European integration process. 70 years later, little remains of the basic principles of the social market economy. An increasingly expansive monetary policy of the European Central Bank undermines competition, growth and social cohesion in Europe, which puts political stability at risk. To ensure economic, political and social stability in Europe, a return to the principles of Walter Eucken und Ludwig Erhard is necessary.

3. Punishment and welfare: social problems and social structures

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Garland
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines the complex relationship between ‘punishment’ and ‘welfare.’ It traces the various ways in which penal systems are influenced by, and interact with, broader systems of social welfare and how these linked institutions function as modes of social control and class control. Following a critical review of the historical and comparative literature—and associated questions of data and method—it discusses how penal and welfare policies relate to the social problems they purport to address and to the political and socio-economic structures within which they operate. ‘Penal-welfarist’ and ‘welfarist’ practices are defined and differentiated, some common elements of practices of punishing and assisting are identified, and the fundamentals of ‘the welfare state’ and its recent neoliberal history are explained.

scholarly journals Assessment of the technical state and the possibility of its control for the further safe operation of building structures of mining facilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 01012
Author(s):  
Yurii Otrosh ◽  
Yevhen Rybka ◽  
Oleksandr Danilin ◽  
Maksym Zhuravskyi
Keyword(s):  
State Assessment ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Technical State ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Safe Operation ◽  
Optimal Decisions ◽  
Calculation Results

There are about 200 operating mines in Ukraine, most of which have not been reconstructed for more than 20 years. Modern anthropogenic and ecological impacts are caused by local technogenic catastrophes and the global ecological crisis. The statistical data on the safety of Ukrainian mines were considered. A literary analysis has been made of advanced expertise in the technical state assessment of the building structures. The purpose of the study is to make optimal decisions when constructing, operating and maintaining the buildings. The procedure for assessing the building state is the result of research, the purpose of which is to develop a technique for reliable and operational assessment of the building structures technical state. In this paper, a technique is proposed for inspecting the constructions and assessing their technical state. The maximum efforts in elements of the adapted frame were used for checking calculations and constructional design. The obtained calculation results were used in determining the sufficiency of existing cross section value of the structure elements. According to the calculation results, a conclusion has been made that hardness, stability and rigidity of the frame elements as a whole are ensured; further operation of the building structures is possible providing for the project development to strengthen building structures and to implement the design solutions at the construction site. In order to ensure the continued normal operation, it is necessary to develop a project for strengthening the structures, as well as a project for fire protection of building structures.

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