Download or read book Juggernaut Politics written by Jacques Gélinas and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for maximum labor flexibility in order to ensure competitiveness has replaced the old aim of making workers into productive allies and mass consumers. Jacques B. Gelinas' vivid text picks out the key elements of this new economic landscape, and explains why the owners and CEO's of this new transnational economy no longer need their traditional alliance with the state and the middle classes. He depicts governments, spellbound by the market, abandoning their obligations to defend civil society.