Identity politics

[Michael Eisenscher]

Perhaps it would be helpful to connect this discussion/analysis to the
concept of "labor aristocracy."  Don't workers who could be considered in
this category "benefit" from exploitation or super-exploitation of other
workers?  But status in the aristocracy is not fixed or enduring and the
inner workers of the system routinely knock workers who felt safely
insulated within it back into the larger labor market.  Momentary advantage
(always relative) is not the same thing as secure or enduring advantage,
whether that advantage is created by skill, by race, by gender, by nepotism,
by ethnicity, or whatever.  As the system matures and evolves, with the
introduction of new technologies that change the calculus of the labor
markets, a relatively smaller proportion of workers are able to secure this
privileged niche.

In solidarity
Michael E.