Re: [OPE-L] Retraining Laid-Off Workers, but for What? By LOUIS UCHITELLE

[Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [OPE-L] Retraining Laid-Off Workers, but for What? By

> >
> Rakesh, thank you for this interesting
> article. It is in the same vein that Michael Yates book: Naming the
> System, Monthly Review Press, 2003. There is a section entitled:
> "The work we do: plenty of bad jobs in the rich
> nations."
>
> Muchos saludos
> Alejandro

Hi Alejandro,

With heightened job competition among the most vulnerable (downard mobility of whites now claiming jobs once beneath them, job competition between Mexican immigrants and the minority American working class), the eviseration of the social wage (cuts in Medicaire and more) and the importance of accumulation by dispossession (David Harvey), I think social Darwinism rather than vulgar, neo harmonist economics will provide the more popular set of categories through which social life is understood (as I argued in my dissertation). For this reason, I think Lewontin, Rose and Kamin's Not In Our Genes is as an important a critique as Marx's own Capital. Especially in the US.

Do note that Lewontin et al are not the dogmatic environmentalists that they are often claimed to be.

Yours, Rakesh