Citizens of the Present

George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress.

Children occupy a paradoxical position within capitalist societies — they are at once future workers who will replenish the labor force, as well as creatures who draw the adults caring for them away from profit-generating work. “Our most precious resource,” then, are problems to be solved in even the most progressive capitalist societies. Across the world, […]

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