Sanford F. Schram is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at Roosevelt House Institute of Public Policy, Hunter College, CUNY.

• Preface ; Chapter 1 The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism as the New Normal ; Chapter 2 Middle-Class Melancholia: Self-Sufficiency after the Demise of Christianized Capitalism (U.S. Style) ; Chapter 3 Occupy Precarity: Resisting the Limits of Collective Agency under Neoliberalism ; Chapter 4 The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Discourse and Identity in Neoliberal Welfare Policy ; Chapter 5 The End of Social Work: Implementing a Neoliberal Paternalism (with Basha Silverman) ; Chapter 6 Schooling the Corporatized Citizen/Corporatizing the School: From Grade School through College ; Chapter 7 The Next Neoliberal Thing: Social Impact Bonds ; Chapter 8 Getting Beyond Neoliberalism: The Road to Radical Incrementalism ; Notes ; Index

The Return of Ordinary Capitalism is remarkable in what it holds together to illuminate our time: critical theory, empirical accounting of contemporary inequality and precarity, case studies on social welfare and education, and attunement to the neoliberalization of everyday life. One need not agree with Schram's arguments to be profoundly instructed and moved by them. Clear, unpretentious and unafraid, this is a work for Occupy's next round.

Sanford F. Schram is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at Roosevelt House Institute of Public Policy, Hunter College, CUNY.

• Preface ; Chapter 1 The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism as the New Normal ; Chapter 2 Middle-Class Melancholia: Self-Sufficiency after the Demise of Christianized Capitalism (U.S. Style) ; Chapter 3 Occupy Precarity: Resisting the Limits of Collective Agency under Neoliberalism ; Chapter 4 The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Discourse and Identity in Neoliberal Welfare Policy ; Chapter 5 The End of Social Work: Implementing a Neoliberal Paternalism (with Basha Silverman) ; Chapter 6 Schooling the Corporatized Citizen/Corporatizing the School: From Grade School through College ; Chapter 7 The Next Neoliberal Thing: Social Impact Bonds ; Chapter 8 Getting Beyond Neoliberalism: The Road to Radical Incrementalism ; Notes ; Index

The Return of Ordinary Capitalism is remarkable in what it holds together to illuminate our time: critical theory, empirical accounting of contemporary inequality and precarity, case studies on social welfare and education, and attunement to the neoliberalization of everyday life. One need not agree with Schram's arguments to be profoundly instructed and moved by them. Clear, unpretentious and unafraid, this is a work for Occupy's next round.

Sanford F. Schram is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at Roosevelt House Institute of Public Policy, Hunter College, CUNY.

• Preface ; Chapter 1 The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism as the New Normal ; Chapter 2 Middle-Class Melancholia: Self-Sufficiency after the Demise of Christianized Capitalism (U.S. Style) ; Chapter 3 Occupy Precarity: Resisting the Limits of Collective Agency under Neoliberalism ; Chapter 4 The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Discourse and Identity in Neoliberal Welfare Policy ; Chapter 5 The End of Social Work: Implementing a Neoliberal Paternalism (with Basha Silverman) ; Chapter 6 Schooling the Corporatized Citizen/Corporatizing the School: From Grade School through College ; Chapter 7 The Next Neoliberal Thing: Social Impact Bonds ; Chapter 8 Getting Beyond Neoliberalism: The Road to Radical Incrementalism ; Notes ; Index

The Return of Ordinary Capitalism is remarkable in what it holds together to illuminate our time: critical theory, empirical accounting of contemporary inequality and precarity, case studies on social welfare and education, and attunement to the neoliberalization of everyday life. One need not agree with Schram's arguments to be profoundly instructed and moved by them. Clear, unpretentious and unafraid, this is a work for Occupy's next round.