[PEN-L:6298] RE: Harry Braverman (was Re: Labor: Menial vs. Noble )

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Sat Dec 16 13:30:14 PST 2000


At 02:50 PM 12/16/00 -0600, Forstater, Mathew wrote:
>on "mental" and "manual" labor:

perhaps we could get to the basic point, one that catherine and i were making: the distinctions tie into gender and race oppression. and, not coincidentally, one aspect of this binary opposition between mental and manual labor is that it is a nice little myth that leads people (white working class men in particular) to reinscribe their own oppression, if i can get all labor process theory on ya.

kelley



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