Unproductive Labor

What Weber and Foucault Get Wrong about Institutions: An Interview with Steven Klein about the Welfare State


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Steven Klein is a Lecturer of Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. His first book, The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (CUP 2020), examines the democratic potential of struggles over welf are institutions. He is also working on a second book project that draws together the thought of Karl Polanyi with the tradition of critical social theory to develop an account of the contemporary politics of finance, debt, and money.

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Producer: Daniel Fermín

Music: Composed and performed by Samuel Haines. 

 

What We Talked About

Steven Klein, The Work of Politics (Cambridge, 2020).

Jonathan Steinberg, Bismarck: A Life (Oxford, 2011).

 

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Unproductive LaborBy Pete Sinnott