Our music is taken from the song “Pourquoi je pas?”, and is kindly provided by Chocolat Billy, a band based in Bordeaux, France. To find out more about them, visit their pages on Bandcamp, Facebook and the Free Music Archive.
David Matthews is a lecturer in health and social care at Coleg Llandrillo, north Wales, where he is also the programme leader of the health and social care degree.
Having an academic background in sociology and social policy, David’s research interests include health inequalities, including the role that social class plays in determining the distribution of health, as well as the relationship between health and capitalism, including both physical and mental health.
In addition to this, David has an interest in all aspects of Marxist theory, with a particular interest in the application of Marxism to understand the development and evolution of social policy and welfare states.
David obtained both his undergraduate degree in sociology, masters, and PhD in sociology and social policy from Bangor University. If you would like to get in touch with David and discuss any of the issues raised in this episode, you can do so here.
Further information:
ResearchGate
Monthly Review
EPISODE RESOURCES
The “Welfare State,” the productive worker, and “disability” (Forthcoming author David Matthews interviewed for Post-Capitalism Podcast)
The Monthly Review
Capitalism needs a welfare state to survive
The Economist
Capitalism and the Welfare State
by William Van Ornum
America Magazine
The freedom lover’s case for the welfare state
by Will Wilkinson
Vox
Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
by Marta Russell
Haymarket Book
Disability, Covid and Capitalism
by Ruth Flood
MR Online
Self Employment or Bust: capitalism, disability and meaningful work
by Elizabeth Wright
Conscious Being
How Capitalism Contributes to Ableism
by Chris Costello
The Mighty
Mind your business: Ableism is rooted in capitalism
by Abbigale Shi
Daily Free Press
The Disabled State
by Deborah A. Stone
Temple University Press
How capitalism frames disability
by Jenny Rellick
Socialist Worker
Disabled in a capitalist society
by Sheshu Babu
Countercurrents.org
If you keep putting work before health and happiness, you may be suffering from internalized capitalism
by Alia E. Dastagir
USA Today
Capitalism’s connection to our ever-worsening mental health
by Andray Domise
Maclean’s
A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health
by Mikkel Krause Frantzen
Los Angeles Review of Books
New Research Confirms It: Exploitation Makes People Miserable Mentally
by Meagan Day
Jacobin
Mental Health Challenges Related to Neoliberal Capitalism in the United States
by Anna Zeira
Community Mental Health Journal
Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies
by Ursula Huws
Pluto Books
The Welfare State Boosts Capitalism
by Gro Lien Garbo
Science Norway
Why Welfare and Redistribution Saves Capitalism from Itself
by Steve Roth
Evonomics
MORE BY DAVID MATTHEWS
Disability and Welfare under Monopoly Capitalism
Monthly Review
Review: Health Care for Profit (Not Health): A Sick System
Monthly Review
A Theory of Mental Health and Monopoly Capitalism
Monthly Review
Capitalism and Mental Health
Monthly Review
The Working-Class Struggle for Welfare in Britain
Monthly Review
The Struggle for Shelter: Class Conflict and Public Housing in Britain
Monthly Review
The Battle for the National Health Service: England, Wales, and the Socialist Vision
Monthly Review
UK Monopoly Capitalism: Applying a North American Brand to Britain
Monthly Review
Sociology in nursing (article series)
Nursing Times
Foundation degree, a pathway to practice (two-part series) with Lynne Bedson
British Journal of Healthcare Assistants
Assistant practitioners: an essential support in a climate of austerity
British Journal of Healthcare Assistants
Identifying humanness in an individual with severe learning difficulties
The SLD Experience