The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society: Public Funding and the Regulation of Popular Education in Sweden, 1870-1991

by Samuel Edquist and Anne Berg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319524542
• ISBN13: 9783319524542
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"