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
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
Dates:	Date Event 2014 Published
Number of Pages:	141
Page Range:	pp. 115-118
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
Funder:	Policy Network
Open Access Version:	Publisher

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