Neoliberals attacked family welfare in the North but the same welfare in the South

Evidence

While neoliberals in the US, the UK and Europe bolstered their challenge to the welfare state by bemoaning its weakening of family responsibility, as we saw in Chapter 2, the neoliberal development theorists faced precisely the opposite problem: in the Global South, they believed that the extended family structure was too effective in its welfare function; in cushioning individuals from the imperatives of wage labour, the extended family was a barrier to a competitive market order, and its redistributive moral economy diminished the rewards of individual entrepreneurialism. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 409

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the two-sided assault on any non-market source of social reproduction that also appears in the discipline-vs-welfare literature on austerity regimes. — connects to: Family loyalty is central, not marginal, to American neoliberal welfare theory — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 213; Neoliberals attacked welfare as a threat to family, race, and dignity — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 178
• SEED: Angle for an essay: the same social form (extended family welfare) was condemned as enfeebling in the metropole and as a barrier to development in the colonies — a mapping of how neoliberal moral critique flips depending on racialized location.