
How Precarity Puts Capitalism on Edge
The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth
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The Paradox of Emancipation
I was surprised because inequality has always been a feature of capitalism. How come at that particular point we started to be so obsessed with inequality? So for me that was the puzzle. As a political theorist I've written another book on judgment and justice. And I have observed that with the feminist struggles, you know, with the later generation of feminism as women wanted to gain equality with men on the labor market. They actually valorised, they put additional value on the rat race, on being in and competing. That's what I call the paradox of emancipation.
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