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The Labour Test, a Tool for Sorting the Poor Rather Than Employing Them
Chopping wood, ruined hands, waiting until the labour market closed: for a century, relief came only against work. Yet that work was rarely meant to employ anyone. It proved destitution, sorted the deserving from the rest, and could deter those who most needed help.
Renan, Fichte and the unfinished quarrel over what makes a nation
Language or consent, blood or plebiscite: the old debate over the nation is told as a duel between two models. Its own texts tell another story, in which the nation of will honors its founders and the nation of language doubts that parents alone could pass it on without political independence.
