Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy of) Neoliberal Europe

This book takes as its point of departure the observation that much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon an impending sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the first thirty years of the post-war period are being continuously unravelled.Bailey et al argue thatwhilst there are clearly many reasons to lament, and be concerned about, the trajectory of change within Europe' s political economy, there are nevertheless also important developments, trends and processes

This book takes as its point of departure the observation that much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon an impending sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the first thirty years of the post-war period are being continuously unravelled.Bailey et al argue thatwhilst there are clearly many reasons to lament, and be concerned about, the trajectory of change within Europe' s political economy, there are nevertheless also important developments, trends and processes

This book takes as its point of departure the observation that much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon an impending sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the first thirty years of the post-war period are being continuously unravelled.Bailey et al argue thatwhilst there are clearly many reasons to lament, and be concerned about, the trajectory of change within Europe' s political economy, there are nevertheless also important developments, trends and processes

Cover -- Endoresment -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Table -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Beyond left melancholy: Towards a disruption-oriented account -- Left melancholy: despair and domination in the critical political economy of European integration -- Towards a disruption-oriented account -- Chapter 2 The limits of market-based pacification: Labour unrest and European integration -- Pre-1945: the eruption of radical refusal-prone materialism -- Post-1945: the Marshall Plan, European integration, and the pursuit of market-based discipline -- 1968: the end of the post-war pacification and the neoliberal resort to 'more market' -- The relaunch of European integration as part of the neoliberal response -- Disrupting the neoliberal response, causing the European crises: between manufactured disengagement and peripheral refusal -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 In search of a new radicalism?: Workers and trade unions during the European crisis -- The British post-crisis workplace: precarity and anti-precarity -- Workplace restructuring and the reinvention of workplace struggle in Spain: 'They want to get rid of everything' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Resisting neoliberal Europe, responding to the dismantling of welfare states -- The European Welfare Model and the (partial) mollification of the working class under Fordism -- Under pressure: welfare states, neoliberal European integration and its coming crisis -- A 'constraining dissensus': the post-Maastricht crisis of the European Union -- Refusing welfare reforms, frustrating neoliberalism -- Welfare during the European crisis: the age of impeded austerity? -- UK welfare reforms and disruptive subjectivity -- Workfare and anti-workfare: 'If you exploit us, we will shut you down'