How to make opportunity equal [[electronic resource] ] : race and contributive justice / / Paul Gomberg

• Autore: Gomberg Paul
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Disciplina: 172; 172.2; 305.8
• Soggetto topico: Social justice; Justice (Philosophy); Social ethics; Political science - Philosophy; Race discrimination
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-177) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Who toils? : race, equal opportunity, and the division of labor -- Against leveling the playing field -- Against limiting opportunity -- Egalitarianism of opportunity and other egalitarianisms -- Can everyone be esteemed? -- Opportunity for what? : defending the constellation -- Sharing labor -- Transforming relationships -- Is inequality necessary? -- Are some born smarter than others? -- Race and political philosophy -- Justice and markets -- Contributive justice.
• Sommario/riassunto: This critical examination of racial equality takes a new approach to breaking down racial barriers by proposing a system of equal opportunity through shared labor and contributive justice. Focuses on how race and class inevitably structure vastly unequal life prospects Shows how human society can be organized in a way that does not socialize children for lives of routine labour Looks towards contribution, not distribution, as a way to promote racial equality Argues that by sharing routine and complex labor, social relationships would be transformed, elim
• Titolo autorizzato: How to make opportunity equal
• ISBN: 0-470-69647-8; 1-282-34842-6; 9786612348426; 0-470-69162-X; 1-280-93274-0; 0-470-69243-X; 1-4051-8205-9; 9786610932740
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910141309503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II