[lbo-talk] Political Economy of Non-Profits

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 27 13:10:21 PST 2006


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>This is probably not exactly "exploitation" in the Marxist sense of
>the term -- not much surplus value is produced by all the frenetic
>activities of unpaid volunteers -- but unpaid volunteers do look
>like they are exploited to pay for the salaries of non-profit staff
>at least.

But for the most part, those salaries aren't large. What are large are the paychecks and perks at a place like the Ford Foundation. Six-figure salaries at the top, and grilled salmon for lunch. Nice.

Doug



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