What is Tertiarization? Perspectives on social change

By Robert Kurz
Read it at Exit-Online
In the 1970s social decline in the form of mass unemployment had already begun, but this negative development was to be taken up by social problem-solving: one almost believed that a social worker could be dispatched to every unemployed person. The “support industry” for the fallen appeared to be an [...]

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Ciudadania, gobierno de la subjetividad y politicas sociales

Juan Sandoval MoyaGet it here, in Spanish: dialnet.unirioja.es

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Social Capital and Neo-Liberal Voluntarism

As with ‘the civic culture’ then so, perhaps, with Third Way ‘social capital’ today. Social capitalists as mangers of dissent and protest remain concerned to moderate and divert voluntary but oppositional movements from below. Such was the case in 2005 with the celebritisation of the anti-G8 campaign by Make Poverty History and G8 Live. While such mass voluntarism brings people together for consensual dialogue to redress the injustice of world poverty, it diverted conflict away from the established forces of legitimate authority. In contrast, recalcitrant voluntarism exposes the conflict of structured interests at stake. Since the enshrined rights of structural interests, including capital and state, are being challenged, recalcitrant voluntarism necessarily is or becomes politically contentious.23 Recalcitrant voluntarism is unavoidably adversarial, unpleasant and polarising. It comes to recognise the division of society and state into unequal, competing interests.
In contrast, conformist voluntarism demands bloodless struggles over a de-politicised, moral high ground of private preference choices, say of selfless compassion over self-centred amenity, rather than democratic matters of struggle.

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POVERTY OF DEMOCRACY: NEOLIBERAL REFORMS AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF THE POOR IN MEXICO

The aggregate data begins to give us a sense of the debilitating effect neoliberal economic
policies are having on the lives of the poor. My interviews confirmed that the reforms have had
an unambiguously negative effect on the lives and on the political activity of individuals from
both urban and rural areas. The vast majority of people with whom I spoke were critical of these
policies that, from their perspective, were making them worse off than before.

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Structuring Neoliberal Governance: The Nonprofit Sector, Emerging New Modes of Control and the Marketisation of Service Delivery

Bryan Evans, Ted Richmond and John Shields
See article at Policy & Society 
Vol. 24, nº 1, 2005, pp. 73-97.

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Anti-poverty or Anti-poor? The World Bank’s market-led agrarian reform experiment in the Philippines

SATURNINO M BORRAS, JR, DANILO CARRANZA & JENNIFER C FRANCO
Third World Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 8, 2007, pp 1557 – 1576
See it at: http://www.tni.org/archives/borras/antipoor.pdf?

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Fashion Victims: the true cost of cheap clothes at Primark, Asda and Tesco

By War on Want
Read it: Fashion Victims

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Behind the Mask: the real face of corporate social responsibility

By Christian Aid
Read it: Behind the Mask

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Competitiveness, social justice, and the Third Way

Paul Cammack
Papers in the Politics of Global Competitiveness, No. 6, Institute for
Global Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, e-space Open Access
Repository
See it at: http://hdl.handle.net/2173/11659
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GLOBALISATION OR ‘GLOCALISATION’? NETWORKS, TERRITORIES AND RE-SCALING

By Erik Swyngedouw
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
See article at: http://www.europaforum.or.at/site/Homepageifhp2003/downloads/Langfassung_swyngedouw1.pdf

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