Challenging Alienation in the British Working-Class: Building a Community of Equals (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series)

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Motivating Questions and Methodology
	Shape of the Book
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Situating Idealist-Socialism
	Alienation and Exploitation
	The Right-Communitarian Position
	Evaluating This Position
	A Nationalist Framing for Non-Alienation
	Communitarianism
	Idealism
	Higher-Self and Moral Character
	From Idealism to Socialism
		Socialism
	Capitalism and the Dignity of Labour
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Defining the ‘Working-Class’
	Bourdieusian Class Theory
	Factoring Sub-groups into Class
	Working-Class(es)?
	Shared Occupational and Economic Characteristics
	Culture and Class
	Nation
	Community and its Values
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Defining Alienation
	Hegel
	Marx
	Macintyre
	Rootedness
	Macintyre’s Narrative
	Defining Alienation
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Is the Working-Class Alienated?
	Dignity: Is Working-Class Dignity in Decline?
		Meritocracy and the Knowledge Economy
		Tyranny of Merit
		De-Valuation
		Capitalist Culture
		Why Does This Constitute Alienation?
	Community: Is a Working-Class Sense of Community in Decline?
		Structural Decline and Isolation
		Culture Crisis
		Intra-Class Hostility
		Culture, Structure, and Identity Politics
		Disconnection from a National Narrative
		Populist-Nationalism
		Why Does Community Decline Mean Alienation?
	Agency: Is Working-Class Agency in Decline?
		Structural Change
			Phase 1
			Phase 2
			Phase 3
		The Party of the Middle Class and the Problem of Structural Exclusion
		Assessing the Narrative of Structural Exclusion
		Why Alienation?
	Conclusion: The Case for Working-Class Alienation
		Dignity
		Community
		Agency
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: The Ethics of British Idealism
	The Higher-Self
	Moral Character
		Moral Character and Human Flourishing
		Human Flourishing
	The State and the Society of Societies
	Common Good
		Pluralism and Equal Worth
		A Lived Good of Mutual Recognition
		Nonselfishness and Nonexploitation
	Ethical Citizenship
		The Reconciliatory State and the Common Good
	Conclusions
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Developing Idealist-Socialism
	The Ethics of British Idealism and the Guild Socialist Debt to It
	Socialist Pluralism and the Society of Societies
	The State and Civil Society
		The Laskian Model
	Capitalism
		The Socialist Ideal
	Conclusions
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: Progressive Nationalism
	Why Begin with Patriotism?
	Viroli’s Patriotism
	Anti-Nationalism
	Re-Conceptualising Nationalism
	Progressive Nationalism or Patriotism?
	In Defence of Culture/The Importance of Culture
	What Is the National Narrative, and What Is the British Nation?
		How Does One Determine Something to Be British?
		Constructing This Identity
		Balancing Culture Within National Identity
		Culture In-Itself
		What Does This Macro Constitute?
	Conclusion: Why Does This Address Alienation?
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: Progressive Nationalism Applied to Our Economic Life
	Assessing the Intentions of Worker Control
	Recognition and Acknowledgement
	Fairness, Solidarity, and Equity
	Voice and Autonomy
	Vocation and Autonomy
	Autonomy and Belonging
	The Ownership Critique
	Conclusion
		Pay Ratios and the Question of Dignity
		Policy Direction
		Assessing Pay Ratios
		Psychological and Social Impacts
		Material Improvement
		Social Obligation
		Other Factors
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: An Ethos for Civil Society
	Membership-Belonging
	Relational-Belonging
	Pluralism and Belonging
	The Good of Acknowledgement
	Recognition
	Recognition and Education
	The Reconciliatory State
	Symbolic Inclusion and the State
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 11: Conclusion: Building a Community of Equals
	Policies and Principles
	Rooting Agency and Dignity in the Economy
	Civil Society Expansion
	The Propagation of a Tangible Progressive Nationalism
	A Contribution to Contemporary Debate
	Opportunities for Further Research and Recommendations
	Final Thoughts
	Bibliography
Index