[Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"

[Jenifer Cartwright]

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. --Jenifer

--- On Tue, 9/7/10, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"
To: "Barbara kessel" <barkes at gmail.com>
Cc: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 5:00 PM

Precisely.





From: Barbara kessel <barkes at gmail.com>
To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>; Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Tue, September 7, 2010 4:39:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"


 The point MArx was making, I believe, is that the more surplus labor there is, the more it drives wages down because of the competition for jobs, so capitalists find "surplus labor" to be quite  a good thing. Barbara Kessel 


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:29 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:




The problem with that is if you provide them with work, they're no longer a surplus labor force, which eventually threatens corporate profits, military recruitment, etc.




From: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Tue, September 7, 2010 2:10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"




> ...what we have here is a youthful, healthy, highly-skilled, and
> economically desperate pool of surplus labor. This is to the benefit of
> corporations, educational institutions, NGOs, the low-paid service sector,
> the military, and the prison-industrial complex. Of course, in spite of the
> global spirit of desperate competition, winners and losers remain
> predictable in aggregate on the basis of their economic backgrounds, albeit
> with notable exceptions that reinforce the rule. All of this constitutes the
> so-called “meritocracy” in the neoliberal era.

Interesting paragraph, David. And well written.

The idea of surplus labor is worth looking closer.
Because I think there is plenty of work to be done.
* Rebuild New Orleans
* put out fires in Colorado
* put up some windmills
* harvesting fields in Illinois [my cousin is in need of some farm
 help]

Isn't there a way to rearrange workers to take up the work that needs
to be done.
Oh, wait, the CCC and WPA ...

-karen medina
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