2014/01/01 by William K. Carroll · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism #Labor Movements and Unions #Political and Economic history of UK and US
paper · doi:10.1057/9781137293688_11
openalex publication_date 2014/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
In Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance , David McNally observes: Periods of enduring crisis and sporadic resistance are complex and dangerous. Desperation, anxiety, and hopelessness preside. The dominant class seems no longer to believe in itself. Rarely does it bother to espouse lofty ideals like freedom and betterment of the human condition … Rather than trying to inspire belief in their system, society’s rulers seem to have no higher purpose than maintaining the status quo, squeezing profit and privilege out of a decrepit but well protected machinery of power …. Naked money-grubbing, mercenary politics, and the unconcealed use of force in the service of power are the order of the day. Governments seem content to attack the population; the rich live merely to get richer. In all these ways, the decade of austerity becomes one of social and cultural regression. (2011: 187–8) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.