Meritocracy as Plutocracy: The Marketising of 'Equality' Under Neoliberalism

Littler, Jo

doi:10.3898/newf.80/81.03.2013

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“…Even in an age of economic upheaval and deepening cuts that are pushing more people into poverty, calls to be aspirational, responsible and hard-working abound. To not 'believe in yourself' and be willing to compete is to be found wanting (Littler 2013). Thus, when Reece humorously remarks that you have to keep trying or 'you'll top yourself' she speaks to the psychic and social costs that giving up on the future and 'sitting with hopelessness' carries.…”

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Top girls navigating austere times: interrogating youth transitions since the ‘crisis’

Allen

2015

Journal of Youth Studies

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Attending to the biographical accounts of two participants occupying different class locations, I explore their transitions and perceptions of the uncertainties and risks characterising 'austere times'. I demonstrate how, despite similarities in their experiences of a stunted graduate labour market, social class shaped how they responded to and made sense of the pressures and predicaments they encountered.

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Top girls navigating austere times: interrogating youth transitions since the ‘crisis’

Allen

2015

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…When combined with dominant understandings of and assumptions about meritocracy (Littler, 2013), individuals who achieve success are viewed as having earned it through hard work and good choices and are thus entitled to the material and other benefits success yields. Similarly, failure is attributed to individuals and their poor choices.…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Ontario's Policy Contextmentioning

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Policy advocacy, inequity, and school fees and fundraising in Ontario, Canada

Winton

Milani

2017

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Fundraising and collecting fees are ubiquitous in Ontario, Canada's public schools. Critics assert that these practices perpetuate and exacerbate inequities between schools and communities. In this article we present findings from a critical policy analysis of an advocacy group's efforts to change Ontario's fees and fundraising policies over the past two decades. Rhetorical analyses of 110 texts finds that the group constructed the problem of each policy similarly, targeted the same audiences, and utilized many of the same strategies to appeal to logos,

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“…So Cap21st dispels the myth of contemporary capitalism's meritocratic nature (see also Castilla, and Bernard, 2010;Littler, 2013;O' Brien et al, 2016), by highlighting how inherited wealth is one of contemporary inequality's crucial underpinnings.…”

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Organization studies of inequality, with and beyond Piketty

2017

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Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century did much to bring discussions of economic inequality into the intellectual and popular mainstream. This paper indicates how business, management and organization studies can productively engage with Cap21st. It does this by deriving practical consequences from Piketty's proposed division of intellectual labour in general and his account of 'supermanagers' in particular. There are organizational specificities to inequality which Piketty's framework does not address, however. Cap21st's account of corporate governance, of tax avoidance policy and of financialisation, in particular, requires significant conceptual and empirical supplementation. We argue that business, management and organisational scholars should contribute to the cross-disciplinary inequality research project which Cap21st proposes not despite these limitations but because of them.

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Meritocracy as Plutocracy: The Marketising of 'Equality' Under Neoliberalism

Cited by 160 publications

References 29 publications

Top girls navigating austere times: interrogating youth transitions since the ‘crisis’

Top girls navigating austere times: interrogating youth transitions since the ‘crisis’

Policy advocacy, inequity, and school fees and fundraising in Ontario, Canada

Organization studies of inequality, with and beyond Piketty

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