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Dans l’évolution accomplie des années 1980 jusqu’en 2017, les acteurs sociaux ont joué constamment un rôle important dans le cadre d’une tension entre paritarisme, tripartisme et étatisation. À vrai dire, l’équilibre institué des forces a considérablement varié selon les risques, les régimes et les divisions syndicales elles-mêmes [Pollet et
... See moreJean-Claude Barbier, Michaël Zemmour, • Le système français de protection sociale (French Edition)
30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?
When we talk about justice today, we almost always find ourselves talking about rights we believe are entrenched in nature and have been enshrined in our founding documents. This language reflects a liberal conception of human action and interaction, casting us as rational agents who reach agreements with one another through calculation and
... See moreAre We Seeing a Political Realignment?
When Lasch wrote that the “old political ideologies have exhausted their capacity either to explain events or to inspire men and women to constructive action,” he was expressing something nearly identical to the account of a “crisis of authority” or “crisis of hegemony” put forth by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci: a period when “the great
... See moreJohn Ganz • When the Clock Broke
A key realization for me, which came in a flash, was the idea that neoliberalism is not a total worldview. Many people believe it is, but in fact it is a political-economic project that can articulate with several different and even competing projects of recognition—including progressive ones.
Nancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
Assuming Weber’s central insight to have been correct, then in the face of the dramatic transformation in the forms of contemporary capitalism, some new ethos ought to be unfolding right before our eyes.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
As Rawls put it, “Lacking a sense of longterm security and the opportunity for meaningful work and occupation is not only destructive of citizens’ self-respect but of their sense that they are members of society and not simply caught in it.”