<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Right. And it's not only the huge corporations that make out. Even smaller companies benefit from a surplus labor force -- regardless of profits and obscene pay for CEOs, they reduce worker wages and benefits, and when the workers strike, the companies hire scabs and keep things going more or less indefinitely (think Reagan and air traffic controllers). Sucks.<div> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 9/7/10, David Green <i><davegreen84@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"<br>To: "Barbara kessel" <barkes@gmail.com><br>Cc: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 5:00 PM<br><br><div id="yiv504399126"><style
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">From:</span></b> Barbara kessel <barkes@gmail.com><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">To:</span></b> David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">Cc:</span></b> Karen Medina <kmedina67@gmail.com>; Peace Discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, September 7, 2010 4:39:57 PM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"<br></font><br>
The point MArx was making, I believe, is that the more surplus labor there is, the more it <b>drives wages down</b> because of the competition for jobs, so capitalists find "surplus labor" to be quite a good thing. Barbara Kessel <br><br>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">From:</span></b> Karen Medina <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=kmedina67@gmail.com">kmedina67@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">To:</span></b> Peace Discuss <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, September 7, 2010 2:10:11 PM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"<br></font>
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<div class="yiv504399126h5"><br>> ...what we have here is a youthful, healthy, highly-skilled, and<br>> economically desperate pool of surplus labor. This is to the benefit of<br>> corporations, educational institutions, NGOs, the low-paid service sector,<br>> the military, and the prison-industrial complex. Of course, in spite of the<br>> global spirit of desperate competition, winners and losers remain<br>> predictable in aggregate on the basis of their economic backgrounds, albeit<br>> with notable exceptions that reinforce the rule. All of this constitutes the<br>> so-called “meritocracy” in the neoliberal era.<br><br>Interesting paragraph, David. And well written.<br><br>The idea of surplus labor is worth looking closer.<br>Because I think there is plenty of work to be done.<br>* Rebuild New Orleans<br>* put out fires in Colorado<br>* put up some windmills<br>* harvesting fields in Illinois [my cousin is in need of some
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