Screen LibraryThe last neoliberal : Macron and the origins of France's political crisis /
France is experiencing its worst political crisis in thirty years. Governing parties have distanced themselves from the working class, abandoning craftsmen, shop owners and small entrepreneurs. At the same time, these politicians have alienated those workers hostile to the pro-European integration p...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Verso,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English French |
| Edition: | English-language edition. |
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| Summary: |
France is experiencing its worst political crisis in thirty years. Governing parties have distanced themselves from the working class, abandoning craftsmen, shop owners and small entrepreneurs. At the same time, these politicians have alienated those workers hostile to the pro-European integration policies of the Socialist Party. The presidency of Franc?ois Hollande signalled the definitive failure of attempts to reconcile the left-wing base with the drive fro modernisation. However, the pursuit of neoliberal reforms did not end there. It has been taken up and radicalised by his successor, Emmanuel Macron. This project needs a social base, the bourgeois bloc, designed to overcome the right-left divide with a new alliance between the middle and upper classes. But this, as we have seen recently on the streets of Paris and elsewhere, is an undertaking fraught with danger--back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 173 pages : illustrations, charts ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781788733571 1788733576 |
| Index Number: | DC435 |
| CLC: | D756.509 |
| Call Number: | D756.509/A479 |
| Contents: |
The Political Crisis: The Absence Of A Dominant Social Bloc -- The Parti Socialiste's Identity, At The Heart Of The Crisis -- The Bourgeois Bloc: A New Hegemonic Bloc? -- The Processes Of Political Recomposition -- Frances Model Of Capitalism, At The Heart Of Political Conflict. |