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Advertising did, in fact, serve as a powerful mechanism weakening the working-class press. Curran and Seaton give the growth of advertising a status comparable with the increase in capital costs as a factor allowing the market to accomplish what state taxes and harassment failed to do, noting that these “advertisers thus acquired a de facto licensing authority since, without their support, newspapers ceased to be economically viable.”
Manufacturing Consent
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
It is interesting to note that the British welfare state, like most post–World War II welfare states, was consciously constructed against the principle that the poor need to be compelled to labor. This started to change almost everywhere starting in the 1970s.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Bajaj and Birlas’ philanthropy was modelled, in many ways, along the severely restricted Gandhian agenda of self- reform. Mainly directed at uppercaste communities such as their own, these ‘welfare’ programmes—Ambedkar noted in his seminal Annihilation of Caste—had less to do with the reform of Hindu society but more at reforming the savrana Hindu family. ... Instead, it strived for Dalits’ assimilation within the fold of the wider Hindu society while demonstrating—performatively—upper- castes Hindus’ willingness to reform themselves
Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India
Arun Kumar
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