[lbo-talk] productivity and profits

[kjkhoo at pro.SoftHome.net]

At 5:07 PM -0500 2/1/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>What is the explanation for that historical fact? Or is it merely a
>>fact, and expectations are based merely on the premise that what has
>>been and is will be? (That is a good rule of thumb, but subject to all
>>the hazards of any rule of thumb.)
>
>Relentless commodification of everything - and as Ursula Huws 
>argues, the commodification of the domestic sphere has been a rich 
>playground for capital over the last century - means more paid 
>workers.

I think that last should be "means more people who have to be (or 
want to be) in the labour market", and employment as wage work 
becomes not only essential to subsistence, but comes to mean gainful 
employment.

kj khoo