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The Hidden Injuries of Class
This 1972 book, The Hidden Injuries of Class, is a highly cited book (nearly 5,000 citations) by Sennett and Cobb. The work covers meritocracy, individualism and class / caste. Suggested to be a sociological critique of everyday life, and at the time of publication it may have been unique and inspired other similar investigations. A […]
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Capitalism and Human Time: Reflections from Unequal Development
A recent post explored the concept of unequal development, under-development and the exploitation of the third world proposed by Amin several decades ago. In this post, we continue exploring Samir Amin’s “Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism” from 1976, and focus upon his analysis of capitalism – what it is, how […]
Tags: #Capital #Capitalism #Mode of Production #Production #proletarianization
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Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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