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

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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’ Spanish welfare retrenchment and protest movements: ‘For a society that puts people first’4 Iai@flautas: ‘the appropriate moment to provoke’ Conclusion Notes Chapter 5 Defending the commons: Struggles against marketization and austerity in education Between marketization, new constitutionalism and oppositional students’ movements: public education and European integration Education in the European crisis: austerity-driven marketization meets public protest UK: the anti-tuition fee movement and beyond ‘Public education by everyone for everyone’: cuts, marketization and new social movements for public education in Spain Conclusion Notes Chapter 6 Everyday endeavours towardsneeds-based housing policies Rent strikes, squatting movements and the ‘right to the city’: European integration and housing struggles Contesting the residualization of social housing in Britain’s ‘age of austerity’ Housing, everyday precariousness and anti-eviction protests: beyond ‘mortgaged lives’ in the Spanish context Conclusion Notes Chapter 7 Trapped between authoritarian constitutionalism, pragmatic prefigurative movements and the ‘Brexit’?: Disrupting neoliberal Europe Note References Index