EAN: 9781913380120

UNPRECEDENTED? - WILLIAM DAVIES SAHIL JAI DUTTA...

A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political–economic rupture
exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices. The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic
represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work  financial markets  movement
across borders and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be
unprecedented—but the distribution of risks and rewards was anything but. While asset-owners 
outsourcers  platforms and those in spacious homes prospered  others faced new hardships and
dangers. Unprecedented? explores the events of 2020-21  as they afflicted the UK economy  as a
means to grasp the underlying dynamics of contemporary capitalism  which are too often obscured
from view. It traces the political and cultural contours of a rentier nationalism  that was
lurking prior to the pandemic  but was accelerated and illuminated by COVID-19. But it also
pinpoints the contradictions and weaknesses of this capitalist model  and the new sources of
opposition that it meets. An empirical  accessible and critical analysis of the COVID economy 
Unprecedented? is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the political and economic
turbulence of the pandemic’s first eighteen months.

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