End of Protest
Subtitle: How Free-Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781501707469
Subjects: Social control; Protest movements; Capitalism; Free enterprise; Democracy; Great britain, social conditions; United states, social conditions
Description: "Tracing the histories of economic unrest in the United States and Great Britain from the nineteenth century to the present, The End of Protest shows that governments have always been preoccupied with the task of controlling dissent over free market policies. But today's methods pose a new threat to democratic values. For the moment, advocates of free-market capitalism have found ways of controlling discontent, but the continued effectiveness of these strategies is by no means certain"--