cultural politics/"real" politics

Carrol Cox cbcox at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
Mon May 4 15:05:01 PDT 1998


Thomas Kruse writes (responding to my post on victorian sexuality),


> "It is often argued that uncontrolled, expolitative relationships of
> production are the oldest story, so that sweatshops represent classical
> capitalism, not advanced captialism. But it is precisely the development of
> the sweatshops and of other unregulated actitvities after a long period of
> insitutional control that causes old forms of production to become new
> ones." (Castells and Portes, 1989, on the informal economy in New York,
> Colombia, etc.).
>
> Point: the old in the new is, in fact, new.

Interesting. I hope someone takes this point up for discussion.

Carrol



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