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NeoLiberal Scotland - Class and Society in a Stateless Nation (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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NeoLiberal Scotland - Class and Society in a Stateless Nation (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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Neoliberal Scotland argues that far from passing Scotland by, as is
so often claimed, neoliberalism has in fact become
institutionalised there. As the mainstream political parties
converge on market-friendly policies and business interests are
equated with the public good, the Scottish population has become
more and more distanced from the democratic process, to the extent
that an increasing number now fail to vote in elections. This book
details for the first time these negative effects of neoliberal
policies on Scottish society and takes to task those academics and
others who either defend the neoliberal order or refuse to
recognise that it exists. Neoliberal Scotland represents both an
intervention in contemporary debates about the condition of
Scotland and a case study, of more general interest, of how
neoliberalism has affected one of the "stateless nations" of the
advanced West.Chapter One takes an overview of the origin and rise
of neoliberalism in the developed world, arguing that it repudiates
rather than continues the thought of Adam Smith and the Scottish
Enlightenment. Part One addresses the fundamental issue of social
class in Scotland over three chapters. Chapter Two attempts to
locate the ruling class both internally and externally. Chapter
Three explores the changing nature of working class membership and
its collective experience. Chapter Four follows the working class
into the workplace where heightened tensions in the state sector
have provoked an increasingly militant response from trade
unionists. Part Two engages with the broader impact of
neoliberalism on Scottish society through a diverse series of
studies. Chapter Five assesses claims by successive Scottish
governments that they have been pursuing environmental justice.
Chapter Six examines how Glasgow has been reconfigured as a classic
example of the "neoliberal city". Chapter Seven looks at another
aspect of Glasgow, in this case as the main destination of Eastern
European migrants who have arrived in Scotland through the
international impact of neoliberal globalisation. Chapter Eight
investigates the economic intrusion of private capital into the
custodial network and the ideological emphasis on punishment as the
main objective in sentencing. Chapter Nine is concerned with the
Scottish manifestations of "the happiness industry", showing how
market-fundamentalist notions of individual responsibility now
structure even the most seemingly innocuous attempts to resolve
supposed attitudinal problems. Finally, Chapter Ten demonstrates
that the limited extent to which devolved Scottish governments,
particularly the present SNP administration, have been able to go
beyond the boundaries of neoliberal orthodoxy has been a function
of the peculiarities of party competition in Holyrood, rather than
representing a fundamental disavowal of the existing order.
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