whites deny racism; others disagree

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Jul 6 10:35:03 PDT 2001



>At 12:43 PM 7/6/01 -0400, Yoshie asks:
> >What happened to the reserve army of labor?
>
>It toils at myriad of service jobs in the secondary labour market, waiting
>to ger promoted. As capitalism colonizes the hitherto uncolonized areas
>(e.g. the caring work) crappy jobs are plentiful, unemployment is at
>historical low, and firms struggle to find workers (really, ask any
>manager.) But amidst that plenty, good jobs are scarce - and you have to
>know a shitload of very important people to get them.
>
>wojtek

The segmented labor market, through which race is in part produced, can't be abolished by individual workers trying to gain connections, though. Those at the bottom may want to get to know very important people, but not vice versa.

Yoshie



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