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7 - Moral Crisis

from Part III - The New Class Conflict, c.1975–2008

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2023

Hannah Forsyth
Affiliation:
Australian Catholic University, Sydney
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Chapter 7 focuses on the 1970s, when anti-colonial movements sought to turn global hierarchies upside down. Their efforts moved from the US civil rights movement to expose the racism and sexism embedded in professional work, as in education, social work, and medicine. Teachers observed their ‘hidden curriculum’, which excluded those they long claimed to help. Lawyers noted their close alliance to capital and sought, for the less-powerful, alternative routes to legal service. Engineers, who up to this point claimed that they had literally built civilization, began to ask whether they had in fact condemned society to live in concrete boxes and breathe polluted air. Even accountants were not immune. The high and fluctuating inflation that characterized the end of the moral-economic order established after the Second World War produced a legitimation crisis that required, in Britain, a Royal Commission on something as fundamental to capitalism as the calculation of profit.

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Virtue Capitalists
The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008
, pp. 197 - 231
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Moral Crisis
  • Hannah Forsyth, Australian Catholic University, Sydney
  • Book: Virtue Capitalists
  • Online publication: 07 September 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009206471.010
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  • Moral Crisis
  • Hannah Forsyth, Australian Catholic University, Sydney
  • Book: Virtue Capitalists
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009206471.010
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  • Moral Crisis
  • Hannah Forsyth, Australian Catholic University, Sydney
  • Book: Virtue Capitalists
  • Online publication: 07 September 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009206471.010
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