Overview
- Offers new perspectives on the history of capitalism, which is especially timely in the light of the recent financial crisis and subsequent global recession
- Provides a broad chronological survey of the development of capitalism and the contemporary debates which surround it
- Suitable for scholars and students of history, politics and economics, integrating social and cultural history into economic history
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (PSHSM)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History of Knowledge
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Capitalism and the Political
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Social Movements and Moral Concerns
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book adds a crucial focus on morality to the growing literature on the history of capitalism by exploring social and cultural perspectives on the economic order that has dominated the modern world. Taking the study beyond narrow economic confines, it traces the entanglement between moral sentiments and capitalism, examining both moral critiques and moral justifications. Company bankruptcies, systems of taxation, wealth, and the running of stock exchanges were attacked on moral grounds, while ideas of economic justice and the humanization of capitalism loomed large over moral critiques. Many movements, from antislavery to labour campaigns, were inspired by aspirations to improve capitalism and halt the moral decay that was felt to have affected large sections of society. This book questions how moral sentiments are defined and have changed over time, and how these relate to both capitalism and anti-capitalism. Covering a range of different social movements and ethical issues, the 13 chapters present a moral history of capitalism, understood not simply as an economic system but as an order that encompasses all areas of modern life.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr, Germany, and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, UK.
Alexandra Przyrembel is Professor of Modern European History at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Moralizing Capitalism
Book Subtitle: Agents, Discourses and Practices of Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism in the Modern Age
Editors: Stefan Berger, Alexandra Przyrembel
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20565-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20564-5Published: 09 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20567-6Published: 09 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20565-2Published: 26 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6559
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6567
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 329
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social History, Cultural History, Economic History, Modern History, Political History