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The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society

By Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist

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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 thi...Show more

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9783319524542

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Published year

2017

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1

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The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society

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Hardcover

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