Wertheimer [any]
Here’s a paper:
In 1845, Friedrich Engels identified how the living and working conditions experienced by English workers sent them prematurely to the grave, arguing that those responsible for these conditions – ruling authorities and the bourgeoisie – were committing social murder. The concept remained, for the most part, dormant in academic journals through the 1900s. Since 2000, there has been a revival of the social murder concept with its growth especially evident in the UK over the last decade as a result of the Grenfell Tower Fire and the effects of austerity imposed by successive Conservative governments. The purpose of this paper is to document the reemergence of the concept of social murder in academic journal articles. To do so we conducted a scoping review of content applying the social murder concept since 1900 in relation to health and well-being.
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The two most immediate stimuli for the return of the concept were the 2018 UK documentary Grenfell Tower and Social Murder and the 2019 academic article by UK academic Chris Grover Violent Proletarianization: Social Murder, the Reserve Army of Labour and Social Security ‘Austerity’ in Britain. The latter two received wide coverage in the UK mainstream media and stimulated its use in social media in the UK and elsewhere.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953621007097 , which only gives snippets but maybe the bibliography will help.
I was afraid he’d be Attorney General. Is this a relief? Whatever, we still live in hell.
In April, the NYT did a poll (or archive) asking people what they remember most from the Trump presidency.
Voters who shared negative memories of the Trump years overwhelmingly mentioned aspects of his behavior and personality, while the bulk of positive memories were about the economy.
So the Democratic voters couldn’t even articulate the material things that were bad about those years. Only 9% picked “immigration,” and the quotes from people who gave that answer were 6-1 in favor of his immigration policies.
The NYT asks - Why Was There a Broad Drop-Off in Democratic Turnout in 2024? (archive)
Gaza - not mentioned, even though they talk about Harris getting fewer votes than Biden in Dearborn. Grocery prices - not mentioned. Are you better off than you were four years ago? Not mentioned.
Some analysts point out that Ms. Harris was simply the latest political casualty of a postpandemic global trend favoring challengers, no matter the incumbents’ politics, in places like Japan, South Africa, South Korea and Britain.
Mexico? Not mentioned, because then they’d have to point out that incumbent parties that have actually done something to help people out of poverty tend to win reelection.
Once again (as with “chronoworking”) I am forced to repeat that putting a Greek prefix on a Germanic rootword gives me hyperangst.
Remember that time the Washington Post gave Bernie Sanders a bunch of Pinocchios for saying that millions of Americans work multiple jobs, because only eight million do, and “millions” implies … more than that?
She did mention the “working class” once in her convention speech. Checkmate, tankies!
In the Bay — in the Bay — you either live in the hills or the flatlands. We lived in the flats. A beautiful, working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses and construction workers. All who tended their lawns with pride.
The defining characteristic of the working class - we tend our lawns with pride. You know, those lawns we have. In front of the houses we own.
