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Brown, Alan (2014) Preparing young people for a changing labour market. In: McTernan, Michael, (ed.) Making progressive politics work : a handbook of ideas. London: Policy Network, pp. 115-118.
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Abstract
In the six years since the 2008 global financial crisis, progressive politics has been struggling to find a new identity. In an over-reaction against the third way experience, it “threw out the baby with the bathwater”: instead of analysing carefully what Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Wim Kok, Gerhard Schröder and others got wrong, it yearned for a lost era of egalitarian basics without clearly working out what that meant and what its electoral implications would be. It saw the massive failure of markets as an opportunity to bring back the state when in fact rising public debt led to a crisis of the state, which in the public mind loomed larger than the crisis of the market. It struggled to formulate a publicly compelling alternative to austerity. In most countries, it has had to contend with the rise of anti-establishment populism, sometimes of the left, but mostly of the radical right.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Labor market , Employability , Career changes , Self-managed learning | ||||
Publisher: | Policy Network | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
Book Title: | Making progressive politics work : a handbook of ideas | ||||
Editor: | McTernan, Michael | ||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 141 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 115-118 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Funder: | Policy Network | ||||
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