{"product_id":"the-roots-of-populism-neoliberalism-and-working-class-lives-9781526136978","title":"The Roots of Populism: Neoliberalism and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the emergence of neoliberalism in the early 1980s, the interests of the working class have become progressively more marginalized within mainstream politics in the United Kingdom. Years of austerity politics following the financial crash of 2008 deepened popular disenchantment with the political class, paving the way for the 2016 Brexit referendum result. This, Brian Elliot argues, has precipitated a crisis of British democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoes the current wave of populism constitute a threat to or promise for democracy? What has led to the emergence of populism and to what extent can populism be shaped into a program of progressive reform of democracy today? In this timely new book, Brian Elliott takes a long view on populism, tracing its history back to the struggles waged by the British workers’ movement of the nineteenth century to gain general enfranchisement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCountering the depiction of populism as a degradation of liberal democratic political culture into a xenophobic rejection of pluralism, internationalism and multiculturalism, Elliott argues that the populist sentiment contains the promise of a renewal of democratic political culture. Identifying and examining the contemporary challenges of work, Elliott outlines a new working-class politics to overturn the neoliberal logic that has come to dominate mainstream political thinking over the last forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Populism and popular sovereignty: paradoxes of democracy\u003cbr\u003e2 Democracy and the working class\u003cbr\u003e3 The invention of working-class culture\u003cbr\u003e4 Work and the working class now\u003cbr\u003e5 The politics of work\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040999932247,"sku":"9781526136978","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-roots-of-populism-neoliberalism-and-working-class-lives-9781526136978","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}