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Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom

Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom

Preston, John
Firth, Rhiannon

Paperback

General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $29.99

ISBN10: 3030577139
ISBN13: 9783030577131
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Nov 26 2020
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book considers how the UK government's response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic disadvantages the working class, and how mutual aid, based on anarchist principles, can be used as a force for social change.

The authors draw on Marxist and anarchist thought in class theory and social movement analysis to demonstrate that the virus and its material and discursive consequences are an active part of continuing class struggle and class interpolation. Preston and Firth examine how plans for quarantine and social isolation systematically work against the needs of the working class, and rely on classed assumptions about how markets and altruism operate.

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