Remedial Class Struggle

[Michael Eisenscher]

In addition, to the extent that this propaganda induces a larger number of
young (and older) people to obtain technical training, it floods the labor
market with surplus labor, thereby reducing market value of wages and the
bargaining leverage of technically trained workers.

Michael E.

At 08:12 AM 6/1/98 -0700, michael wrote:
>Yoshie wrote
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>> The ruling class argument that 'post-industrial' economy (or whatever)
>> needs 'more + more educated workforce,' what with computers and other tech
>> fetishes, is merely an ideology. This is an argument that is designed to
>> blame the unemployed/underemployed/low-wage workers for their alleged
>> 'education' deficit. This ideology also serves to make workers accept that
>> they--not employers--are responsible for job training.
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>I have a section on this illusion in my new book, Class Warfare in the
>Information Age.--
>Michael Perelman
>Economics Department
>California State University
>Chico, CA 95929
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>Tel. 530-898-5321
>E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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