[lbo-talk] The Neoliberalization Of Higher Education: What’s Race Got To Do With It?

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sun Nov 22 02:48:00 PST 2009


On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:23:48 -0800 Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> writes:


>
> I don't think that the ruling class "decided" that these low-paid
> jobs
> are the ones that are needed; rather, our social system requires
> those
> low-paid jobs for our society to function. The political problem
> here
> is that these professions do not pay living wages. More people
> getting more formal education does not solve the problem; if Obama
> had
> his fondest wish granted and all U. S. adults earned a college
> degree,
> we'd just have lots of low-paid janitors, security guards, and
> restaurant workers with college degrees.

If you take a look around, you will see that's already the case.

Jim F.


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