John Patrick Leary is Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit and visiting faulty at the University of Lisbon in Portugal. He is the author of A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the US Imagination (University of Virginia Press 2016) and Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism, out now from Haymarket Books.
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Published in: ourEconomyThe problem with ‘human capital’Once synonymous with slavery, the ideology of ‘human capital’ turns the toil we do for our bosses into something we...