Class Talk: Communications Unbound

ISBN-13: 9781789975901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 360 str.

Helen Davitt

Opis

A mini source-book on the roots and prevailing features of contemporary capitalist political economy, the book also outlines the alternative of economically viable, politically robust and socio-culturally inclusive democratic socialism fit for the 21^st Century and beyond.

Recenzje

«At a personal level, this book unhinged me in a way few have in recent years, and I think that was because of the courageous nature of the book, and the invisibilities it made transparent. That, in my view, is the hallmark of good scholarship.» (John Smyth, University of Huddersfield, co-author of Living on the Edge - Rethinking Poverty Class and Schooling)

«This book offers a wide-ranging and thought-provoking review of the overwhelming evidence about inequality and its devastating consequences in our society. Eschewing unnecessary jargon or concepts, it provides a compelling survey of the extent, causes and pernicious outcomes of our class structure.» (Peter Golding, Emeritus Professor, Northumbria University, UK)

«Helen Davitt's experiences of working in the real economy mean she hasn't fallen into a silo mentality. In Class Talk she carefully demonstrates the links between the socio-economic systems we rely upon and explains why they have gone awry. Many of us intuitively feel something has gone badly wrong in our communities, but we haven't put all the pieces together to understand how we got here. Class Talk clearly explains the causes and effects of predatory neoliberalism and warns that unless we all work to take democratic control of our economy and society we will end up where we are we are headed.» (Ross Ashcroft, Host of Renegade Inc at RT)

Spis treści

Contents: Power, Force and Social Class - Competitive Production, Exploitation and Profiteering - Usurious Banking and the Great Depression - WWI, Fascism, WWII, the Cold War - Post-WWII Western Economic Growth, Offshoring, Privatisation, Deregulation of Banking and Finance -Twenty-first-century Resource Wars - Bank Racketeering - Big Technology, Agri-business, Big Pharma, Medical Profiteering, Blockchain - Trading Blocs - Battles for Justice, Quest for Peace -Propaganda - The Socio-biological Nature of Language Acquisition - The Socio-cultural Nature of Literacy Development - Sociopathy of Defective Hypotheses - Politics of Ego and Entitlement - Housing in the UK - Grenfell - Charities and Foreign Aid - Educational Apartheid - English National Curriculum and Key Stage Testing - Pre-privatisation of State Schools - Parliamentary Monitoring of State Education - Educational Technology - Office for Standards in Education -Battle for Critical, Political and Multi-functional Literacy - Workplace Democracy -Democratisation of Mass Media - Education for Democratic Socialism - Into the Future -Signposts - Pandemic Politics.

O autorze

Born in Glasgow, Helen Davitt left school at fifteen; emigrated at seventeen to California where she worked as head cashier in a loan company and was sacked for refusing to sell dud car insurances on car loans. She returned to the UK, worked full time and did a degree at Birkbeck College, University of London for four nights a week over four years. She taught in inner-city schools, worked as a schools' inspector and then as a civilian education officer for the schools abroad for UK servicemen and women.