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This article explores the different approaches taken to the concepts of work or labour by Marx and Foucault, examining in particular the question of subjectivity in relation to youth unemployment and the current crisis of youth unemployment as part of the aftermath of the global recession of 2008.

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Marx and Foucault: Subjectivity,Employability and the Crisis of Youth Unemployment in the Great Global Recession

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