Is the working class oppressed?

Socialism 2014

June 26, 2014

Workers are exploited, alienated, and suffer innumerable oppressions of gender, language, sexuality, national origin; but oppressed as a class? Are even white, straight, educated men oppressed as workers? This talk explores the mutually reinforcing forces of oppression and exploitation, and argues that neoliberalism has intensified both fronts through political dispossession and dispersal.

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