Neoliberal restructuring systematically further privileges the already privileged

Evidence

Where the welfare state, with all its contradictions and failings, produced a modicum of social egalitarianism, the neoliberal state exacerbates inequality, further privileging the already privileged. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1742

Categorization

• SHARE: Concise cause-effect extraction of the welfare-to-neoliberal shift would suit a colleague working on inequality policy.
• XREF: connects to: Structural redress was abandoned in favor of a choice framework that protects privilege — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1596; Neoliberalism functioned as a defense against perceived erosion of white privilege — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1764; Post-communist neoliberalization widens inequality and targets visible minorities as scapegoats — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 913 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism functioned as a defense against perceived erosion of white privilege #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1764
• Post-communist neoliberalization widens inequality and targets visible minorities as scapegoats #exemplifies (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 913
• Private discrimination becomes legally untouchable under neoliberal restructuring #exemplifies (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1768
• Neoliberal freedom can be a vehicle for governance and domination #expands (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 153
• Neoliberals framed welfare states as existential threats to individual rights and civilisation #expands (0.72)
• Pluralist democracy amplifies the already privileged #qualifies (0.72) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1187