The Library and the Workshop
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The Library and the Workshop

Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Library and the Workshop

Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age

About this book

This book offers a detailed account of the way that social democracy today makes sense of capitalism. In particular, it challenges the idea that social democracy has gone "neoliberal," arguing that so-called Third Way policies seem to have brought out new aspects of a thoroughgoing social interventionism with roots deep in the history of social democracy. Author Jenny Andersson expertly develops the claim that what distinguishes today's social democracy from the past is the way that it equates cultural and social values with economic values, which in turn places a premium on individuals who are capable of succeeding in the knowledge economy. Offering an insightful study of Britain's New Labour and Sweden's SAP, and of the political cultural transformations that have taken place in those countries, this is the first book that looks seriously into how the economic, social, and cultural policies of contemporary social democracy fit together to form a particular understanding of capitalism and capitalist politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 - Dilemmas of Social Democracy
  7. 2 - The Political Economy of Knowledge
  8. 3 - Defining Old and New Times: Origins of the Third Way
  9. 4 - Capitalism?
  10. 5 - Politics of Growth
  11. 6 - Knowledge Societies
  12. 7 - Investing in People
  13. 8 - Creating the Knowledge Individual
  14. 9 - The Future of Social Democracy: Epilogue
  15. Notes
  16. Index