Coronavirus, class and mutual aid in the United Kingdom / John Preston, Rhiannon Firth.
Preston, John, author.; Firth, Rhiannon, 1980- author.
2020
RA644.C67 P74 2020
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Title Coronavirus, class and mutual aid in the United Kingdom / John Preston, Rhiannon Firth.
Author Preston, John, author.
ISBN 9783030577148 (electronic book)
3030577147 (electronic book)
9783030577131
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57714-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Copyright ©2020
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 116 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-57714-8 doi
Call Number RA644.C67 P74 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.196241400941
Summary This book considers how the UK governments 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. In the face of neoliberal methods of dealing with a pandemic, ranging from marketization, disaster capitalism, to a strengthening of the State, Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the UK explains how radical alternatives such as social movements and mutual aid can be implemented to better cope with current and future crises.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 15, 2021).
Added Author Firth, Rhiannon, 1980- author.
Available in Other Form Coronavirus, class and mutual aid in the United Kingdom.
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1. Introduction
2. The Viracene and Capitalism
3. Classed Practices: Pandemic Preparedness in the UK
4. Mutual Aid, Anarchist Preparedness and COVID-19.

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