[lbo-talk] Seeking an article on the "security economy" (or something like that)

Nathan Robinson nrobinson at g.harvard.edu
Wed Nov 25 12:17:23 PST 2015


Samuel Bowles has also written a lot about this:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/one-nation-under-guard/?_r=0 http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/05-07-030.pdf

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> > On Nov 25, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I remember an article from several years ago that critically examined how
> > much of the economy and its workforce are now dedicated to the protection
> > of property, from security companies to cashiers. I'm pretty sure it was
> > posted to one of these lists.
>
> David Gordon did work on this years ago - he called it "guard labor."
> Google "David Gordon guard labor" and you'll get some hits.
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