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Australia’s Insecure Work Framework Is Designed and Maintained by the Labor Party

jacobin.com/2023/08/australia-

The Australian Labor Party is introducing legislation it claims will help end endemic insecure work. But if the party’s track record is anything to go by, casual workers shouldn’t hold their breath.

#australia #neoliberalism #designerpoverty #insecurework #foodinsecurity #suffering #party #classwar #greedu #fluff #exposure #unionize

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OccuWorld · @OccuWorld
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POVERTY BY AMERICA
Why America's Poor Remain Poor, With Matthew Desmond
Capitalisn’t S2E78

youtube.com/watch?v=ktZP48gQbs

Poverty will be abolished in America only when a mass movement demands it," writes Princeton sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond in his new book, "Poverty, by America." Building on his own lived experiences of growing up poor and continued contact with impoverished communities that "forces [him] to be intellectually honest," he claims that poverty persists in America not because we are incapable of preventing it but because society - and especially the wealthy - benefits from it at the expense of the poor.

#designerpoverty #control #optimumbusinessclimate #classwar #impoverishment #economicassault #exploitation #enslavement

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