Human Capital

Guy Standing

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Ideally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with human capital - skills, knowledge and aptitudes required for the labour market - has trampled over curricula, schools and universities. In 'Human Capital', Guy Standing shows us how education - intrinsically a common public good - has been enclosed, privatised, financialised and corrupted, turned into an instrument of societal control, not human emancipation, weakening democracy, not strengthening it.

Author(s): Standing, Guy
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 29/01/2026
Pagination: 224 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Pelican
Published By: Pelican
Book Classification: Moral & social purpose of education|Moral & social purpose of education|Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies|Educational strategies & policy
Dimensions: 181 x 112 x 25
Weight: 278
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241688182

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