Chris Ray wrote:<As for the present UK labour government, I
think the jury is still out ...>
Is the jury still out on Labour?
In some ways they are going further than the Tories ever did in
specifically orientating education towards 'useful' (money-making) work.
And, to take this further, they are pursuing an agenda very much centred on
the individual's worth as something measured by 'work', in this context
defined very much as paid employment in the capitalist-industrialist
economy.
Thus benefits are cut, and 'training' (NOT education) forced on people to
make them fit in with this agenda, regardless of whether those people are
fulfilling other more useful roles in the community.
The fundamental question here is: "Why work?"
I suggest that the answer is not as simple as it might seem.
David Wood.
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