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The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society: Public Funding and the Regulation of Popular Education in Sweden, 1870-1991
Anne Berg
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Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JN; JPQB; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 this volume, Berg and Edquist narrate a new story of its rise by analysing how a government grant system ... Read more
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 this volume, Berg and Edquist narrate a new story of its rise by analysing how a government grant system ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319524542
SKU
V9783319524542
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Ref
99-15
About Anne Berg
Anne Berg is Senior Lecturer in Education at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her current research focus is on the history of education. Samuel Edquist is Senior Lecturer in Archives, Libraries, and Museums studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. His current research focusses on archives in relations to societal ideas and debates on cultural heritage and privacy.
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