Jamal Awil
Scholar and critical theorist based in Minneapolis, writing on literacy, close reading, and lifelong intellectual development. Data guy and educator by trade, incurably attentive reader by disposition.
The Policy of blaming working-class's morality.
In the 1920s, vice became pathology. Walking class problems and anxieties were recorded from being a sin in a theological sense and disorder into a disease and degeneration and social hygiene problem. It has been labeled medically to a moral tone, but expanded the reach of intervention:
Austerity was codified as economic policy.
Austerity, defined as a strict or self-denying act or condition, was adopted as an economic policy in the early 1920s. In economic terms, austerity refers to government policies to reduce budget deficits during periods of financial crisis.