Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One; 1. An Opulence of Virtue; 2. Ethical Citizenship; Part Two; 3. Consecrations: From Welfare State to Welfare Community; Part Three; 4. The Production of Compassion; 5. An Age Full of Virtue; 6. Aftereffects of Utopian Practice; 7. The Private Face of Privatization; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary
Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state & rsquo;s withdrawal of social service programs. Using anthropological tools, she shows how socialist volunteers are interpreting their unwaged labor as an expression of social solidarity, with Catholic volunteers
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index
