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Article: Capitalism and Social Cohesion: Essays on Exclusion and Integration.(Review)
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- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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IAN GOUGH and GUNNAR OLOFSSON (eds.), Capitalism and Social Cohesion: Essays on Exclusion and Integration. New York: St. Marten's Press, 1999, viii + 213 p., cloth.
The terms "social cohesion" and "social exclusion" are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in the literature of social science and social policy. On the one hand, this is not at all surprising, given the increasing economic disparities wrought by neoliberal restructuring and the rolling back of the ameliorative functions of the state. On the other hand, a concern with social cohesion is at least claimed by advocates of the new forms of organization of employment, flexible labour processes, impersonal ...