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

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Endoresment
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Title Page
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
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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