EAN: 9783319524542

THE CAPITALIST STATE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CI...

This book challenges the idea that a sharp boundary should be drawn between the state and civil
society. Although this idea is extremely common in modern capitalist societies  here it is
turned on its head through a study of the ways in which public funding from the 1870s to the
1990s has enabled and shaped collective action in Swedish popular education. Popular education
has generally been seen as independent of government control  with strong connections to
popular and labour movements  in this volume  Berg and Edquist narrate a new story of its rise
by analysing how a government grant system was constructed to drive its development. A key
element in this government policy was to create and protect popular education as an autonomous
phenomenon  yet making it perform state functions by regulating its bureaucratic make-up and
ideological content. The book will appeal to scholars and students of history  education  and
sociology  particularly those with an interest in the workingsof the capitalist state as well
as the history of education.

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