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It is only then, through the complex interaction of social, political and industrial developments such as changes in the organization of industrial work, the tightening of poor relief, the removal of children from the family economy (effected in part by compulsory schooling), that the livelihood of most individuals and families becomes almost exclusively dependent upon wages from employment.
Unemployment and Government
William Walters
Writing in the 1990s, the political economist Albert Hirschman gave a label to ‘accept your lot’ defences of the status quo: he called it the ‘futility thesis,’ the fatalistic certainty that new policies inevitably make matters worse over all, so better not to change things at all.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
we have known for quite some time that factors outside of schools like food insecurity, housing insecurity, and access to health care, and livable wages account for up to 80 percent of any given test score.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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