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    How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice
    How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice
    How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice
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    How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice

    By Paul Gomberg

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    This critical examination of racial equality takes a new approach to breaking down racial barriers by proposing a system of equal opportunity through shared labor and contributive justice.

    • Focuses on how race and class inevitably structure vastly unequal life prospects
    • Shows how human society can be organized in a way that does not socialize children for lives of routine labour
    • Looks towards contribution, not distribution, as a way to promote racial equality
    • Argues that by sharing routine and complex labor, social relationships would be transformed, eliminating competition for limited opportunities to develop and contribute abilities

    A discussion board for ideas and comments relating to the book can be found at: http://howtomakeopportunityequal.blogspot.com/

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateApr 15, 2008
    ISBN9780470691625
    How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice

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