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University Gold.
With some help from the Jackson 5: The proposal to classify English universities as Gold, Silver or Bronze is a stroke of genius. The perfect expression of the English obsession with ranking. So obvious, one wonders why we’re not already … Continue reading
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Tagged class, Equality, Jackson 5, meritocracy, selection, Social mobility, university
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‘Useful work v. useless toil’ by William Morris
Introduction: This lecture from 1884 is a clear and powerful statement of Morris’s political and economic manifesto, which also informed ‘News from Nowhere’ (1890) his visionary fable of life after a revolution. His critique of the waste and inequality inherent in … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, class, economy, employment, labour, technology, William Morris, work
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