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020 _a9780141990620
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082 0 4 _a333.2 STA
100 1 _aStanding, Guy,
_926187
245 1 0 _aPlunder of the commons :
_ba manifesto for sharing public wealth /
_cGuy Standing.
264 1 _a[London] :
_bPelican,
_c2019.
300 _axviii, 401 p.
490 1 _aPelican books ;
_v33
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aA vital and incisive solution to many of the problems society faces today: we must reclaim the commons. We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off for private events and our national art galleries are sponsored by banks and oil companies. This plunder deprives us all of our common rights, recognized as far back as the Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest of 1217, to share fairly and equitably in our public wealth. Guy Standing leads us through a new appraisal of the commons, stemming from the medieval concept of common land reserved in ancient law from marauding barons, to his modern reappraisal of the resources we all hold in common - a brilliant new synthesis that crystallises quite how much public wealth has been redirected to the 1% in recent decades through the state-approved exploitation of everything from our land to our state housing, health and benefit systems, to our justice system, schools, newspapers and even the air we breathe. Plunder of the Commons proposes a charter for a new form of commoning, of remembering, guarding and sharing that which belongs to us all, to slash inequality and soothe our current political instability.
650 0 _929912
_aThe Commons.
650 4 _93056
_aConservation Of Natural Resources
650 4 _9176
_aPrivatisation
830 0 _aPelican book ;
_v33.
_930241
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_cBOOK
_h333.2 STA
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