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Honneth, Axel The Working Sovereign. Labour and Democratic Citizenship 2024 p.59 Book Concepts of Work, Honneth Citations
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The Working Sovereign. Labour and Democratic Citizenship

by Honneth, Axel (2024)

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Labour, socially necessary activity, is any regularly performed task that helps to maintain generally desired elements of a society's form of life. (p.59)

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