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How Precarity Puts Capitalism on Edge

The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth

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The Politics of Precarity

In the 1990s leisure time outstripped work time for the first time, but that was an aberration. By 1970 we're only going to work about 18 hours a week because of robots and everything else. So yes, so let's try and bring this to a bit of a close here. How do you think about this from the point of view of precarity rather than either xenophobia or inequality? Well, if what drives this content is precarity, it is not a temporary feature of political mobilization.

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