The Economic HorrorISBN: 978-0-7456-1994-1
Paperback
144 pages
June 1999, Polity
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"Economic Horror also comes to us as a European publishing
sensation ... she does have a vision of contemporary capitalism
which focuses almost exclusively on its destructive, disorientating
side. And which does so in a passionate, pulsing style, clearly
attuned to the everyday fears of its predominantly middle-class
readership, but not asking them to think too theoretically about
the sources of their angst ... Powerful stuff" Sunday Herald
(Glasgow)
"Amid so many contemporary arguments about "Third Ways" and the
inevitability...of capitalism, it is refreshing to read such an
impassioned account of its essential malignance. Some may feel that
the case is overstated by the lack of qualification of claims about
globalisation and the lack of differentiation between nations,
classes, ethnicities, genders. But this is partly deliberate, in
order to present starkly that which is usually masked in
qualification, to hold onto the wider picture, to refuse to set
different sections of the population against each other."Ruth
Levitas, Work, Employment and Society.
'Viviane Forrester's The Economic Horror, a bestseller in her
native France, is full of passion for the destructive nature of
employment. While governments advocate the "sanctity" of work, the
unemployed are made to feel excluded, worthless, detached from the
mainstream of society. With the razzmatazz of new Labour's New Deal
fast fading, Forrester's arguments have a knowing persistence that
upsets the conventional wisdoms of even the most modernised
politics.' Mark Perriman, New Statesman