Global Capitalism and the Restructuring of Education: The Transnational Capitalist Class' Quest to Suppress Critical Thinking.

As globalization has advanced there has been a dual process in the subordination of global labor. One mass of humanity has been dispossessed, marginalized, and locked out of productive participation in the global economy, while another has been incorporated or reincorporated into capitalist producti...

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Published in:Social Justice Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 1 - 25
Main Author: Robinson, William I.
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Published: Social Justice 2016
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