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Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin (editors)
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24 looks at New Labour's moves towards creating a market state in Britain.
In a new and path-breaking analysis, Stuart Hall describes what he calls
New Labour's double-shuffle - a move whereby it pursues a dual strategy
of on the one hand keeping traditional constituencies on line through a
certain level of redistribution and community rhetoric, whilst on the other
it pursues its dominant agenda of proceeding to a market state via the royal
road of the new 'social democratic' version of neoliberalism. Alan Finlayson
analyses how public choice theory helps to import the market into the public
sphere, while Jonathan Rutherford looks at the specific case of education
and the PFI, documenting the concerted effort to create market infrastructures
in an area formerly seen as part of the public sphere. Richard Minns shows
how the diversion of social pension funds into private financial institutions
is yet another area in which the market, backed by successive governments,
is making inroads into collective welfare provision. Other articles include
an interview with Renzio Imbeni; George Irvin on the Euro; Adaj Kay on Gaza
City; Nora Räthzel on identity and marginalised young people; Michael Saward
on the legacy of John Rawls; Nora Carlin on Christopher Hill; and Michael
Rustin on Edward Thompson and William Cobbett.
New Labour's double-shuffle
Stuart Hall
Public choice theory: enemy of democracy
Alan Finlayson
PFI: The only show in town
Jonathan Rutherford
Pensions of mass destruction
Richard Minns
Social democracy in Britain and Europe
Interview with Renzio Imbeni
Britain and the Euro
George Irvin
Youth groups and the politics of time and space
Nora Rathzel
Five Poems
Lorna Dowell, Alice beer, Martha Kapos, Patrick
Early, Patrick Hobbs
Veil of influence: the legacy of John Rawls
Michael Saward
Christopher Hill: an appreciation
Nora Carlin
The making of political identity: Edward Thompson and
William Cobbett
Michael Rustin
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