{"product_id":"americas-new-working-class-9780271032771","title":"Americas New Working Class","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnalyzes the role of the state's 'prerogative power' in creating and sustaining a condition of severe inequality for some of the most marginalized sectors of our population in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kathleen Arnold boldly and convincingly takes on social analysts who contend that the state plays a diminished role in the ‘flattened world’ of global capitalism. Rather, she demonstrates that the United States has deployed state power to deregulate, privatize, and weaken public provision while utilizing new forms of bureaucratic ‘prerogative power’ to ‘ascetically discipline’ a new working class of vulnerable, low-wage workers.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Joseph Schwartz,Temple University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Arnold is a political theorist who understands the relevance and necessity of normative theory in addressing social and political inequalities. Fortunately for the reader, she is well equipped to undertake this task.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—M. T. Kenney \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Arnold gives a compelling account of the contradictions and strange paradoxes of contemporary politics and unmasks the brutal forms of power concealed by the modern state that have intensified poverty, exploitation, dehumanization, racism, and sexism.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—William W. Sokoloff \u003ci\u003eTheory and Event\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This ambitious book successfully weaves together labor studies, political philosophy, and the literature on globalization. It is therefore accessible to Americanists as much as to those in political theory and international relations.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Margaret Gray \u003ci\u003ePolitical Science Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Globalization, Prerogative Power, and the New Working Class\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tAsceticism, Biopower, and the Poor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\tDomestic War: Locke’s Concept of Prerogative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\tExploitation and the New Working Class\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tAntagonism and Exploitation: The Importance of Biopower\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\tWar and “Love”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534929232215,"sku":"9780271032771","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271032771.jpg?v=1755858113","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/americas-new-working-class-9780271032771","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}