B oth the European social democracies and their colonial extensions were built on the
putatively universal figure of “the worker,” and the domain we have come to know as “the social” was constructed on the foundation of an idealized, able- bodied male “breadwinner.” Indeed, the list of those requiring “social” intervention (the elderly, the infirm, the child, the disabled, the dependent reproductive woman) sketches a kind of photographic negative of the figure of the wage-earning man. (James Ferguson)
The above quote by James Ferguson in his book Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution, […]
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