[lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA

tfast tfast at yorku.ca
Wed Jan 18 12:34:39 PST 2006


They certainly do not hold water as you have defined them here.

Travis

andie nachgeborenen wrote:


>I don't think the concepts of "productive" and
>"unproductive" labor hold water. Lots of
>"unproductive" labor is not only necessary for the
>production of material goods and necessary services,
>e.g., accounting, legal, marketing, and transportation
>services -- but is also a source of profist, as my
>senior partners can tell you. Lots of public sector
>labor is "productive," not necessarily in producing
>goods and services for profit, but in producing them
>nonetheless. And of course lots of capitalist
>enterprises fail to produce either goods or services,
>or when they do do to produce them for profit -- I'm
>working ona bit of a big bankruptcy case right now.
>
>



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