Linsey McGoey is professor of sociology and director of the Centre for Economic Sociology and Innovation at the University of Essex. Her books include The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World (2019).
If young workers in an advanced capitalist nation wanted to launch a revolution, what skills do they have? Millennials and Generation Z are routinely disparaged as ‘soft’. No matter how hard they toil in underpaid, insecure service and care jobs, they seem to strike many older people as far less tough than their forebears. But war has many theatres. And today, finance is one of them.
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