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The fruits of our Labour ? Resisting health and education privatisation in the UK The fruits of our Labour ? Resisting health and education privatisation in the UK
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pannier, P. |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | And yet what the UK has instead is a disconnected political and media class [4] pontificating about the “palpable disbelief” among even those attending Labour Party events “at the assertion that Miliband will make it to Downing Street”. Speculating about whether the UK Labour leader’s personality, history and apparent (lack of) strategy make this more or less likely. These commentators seem utterly removed from the realities of everyday life for the working class (‘ordinary people’ if you prefer a euphemism). Such speculation attracts more media interest than the crucial questions what strategies can resist the rapid outsourcing/privatisation of every element of social welfare? The increasingly authoritarian, centralised control, the marketization and commodification of everything possible? The drastic reduction of wages and conditions of workers, proletarianisation of the entire workforce, and the immiseration of the lives of the unemployed and, well, everyone who didn’t inherit land and/or go to public school? |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.opendemocracy.net/printpdf/73490 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
