La violence des riches

Synopsis of La violence des riches

«La violence des riches» is the essay by Michel Pinçon and Monique Pinçon-Charlot, published by Zones in 2013, in paperback (251 pages, in French).

The authors document how stock-market layoffs and political decisions intensify social violence against the working classes. Through surveys, portraits and data, they show that this class violence has agents, strategies and places, and hold political leaders and the compromises of government socialism responsible.

For readers interested in sociology, inequality and critique of economic power.