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“This latest transformation to financialised capitalism is profound. The majority of workers are in a new relationship with capital – as financialised objects through which capital extracts its surplus value, not just in the workplace but through the continued commodification and financialisation of all aspects of life. It is important to recognise that recent changes in the nature of work – through precaritisation, digitisation and flexibilisation – reflects the changing impulses (nature) of financialised capitalism. Surplus value is no longer principally extracted from the worker in the factory or office, but from the sphere of financialisation of everyday life and every ‘body’ in healthcare, housing, care work, education and so on.”
― Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve It
― Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve It
“However, this ideology has been deeply discredited because of the 2008 crash, rising inequality and its failure to deliver economic freedom and prosperity for everyone. We are in a period similar to that aptly described by Gramsci when referring to the 1930s, where: ‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”
― Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve It
― Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve It
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