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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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

Being self-employed in the United States must be tougher than being 
self-employed in Europe, Canada, or Japan, as the US doesn't offer 
universal health care.  Do American workers aspire to be small 
business owners more than European, Canadian, and Japanese workers 
do?  If so, there is an interesting contradiction: the petty 
bourgeois aspiration is the most prevalent in a country where being 
petit bourgeois is tougher than most comparable countries.
-- 
Yoshie

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