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My NewVIc Story: Amritpal Gill.
Learning is fun For me, studying is fun and the college supported me every step of the way in my two years at NewVIc. I didn’t learn by reading textbooks but mainly by speaking and listening. I learned most by … Continue reading
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Tagged Newham Sixth Form College, NewVIc, NewVIc alumni, Universities, work
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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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