[lbo-talk] meanwhile, the US working class......

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Dec 19 09:38:47 PST 2004


snit snat wrote:


>Also, does anyone know the numbers of desire for small business ownership?

I got it from Reeve Vanneman and Lynn Weber Cannon's The American Perception of Class (e.g., pp. 86-87). They argue that the petty bourgeois aspirations (their phrase, not mine) of the U.S. working class don't necessarily reflect a lack of class consciousness - they're aware of getting screwed by the boss - but "self-employment - however remote a possibility - seems to offer a more realistic chance to escape from working-class subordination than does a socialist transformation."

Doug



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