managerialism and elimination of the relative surplus population

["Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx>]

In addition to the piece quoted by Rakesh and cited by me previously
from An American Dilemma Revisited, there are:

"Racial Inequality in the Managerial Age: An Alternative Vision to the
NRC Report (in The National Research Council's Report on the Status of
Black Americans, 1940-85)" by William A. Darity Jr. The American
Economic Review, Vol. 80, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred
and Second Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association. (May,
1990), pp. 247-251.

"The Managerial Class and Industrial Policy" by William A. Darity, Jr.
Industrial Relations, Spring, 1986, 25, pp. 212-227.

Darity also cites Ehrenreich and Ehrenreich "The Professional Managerial
Class" in Pat Walker, ed.: Between Labor and Capital, Boston: South End
Press, 1979.

Some of the issued are also discussed in Darity and Myers, The Black
Underclass: Critical Essays on Race and Unwantedness, and in an article
by Darity in the Journal of Economic Issues June 1999 I believe.

Social management policies are used to eliminate the relative surplus
population no longer functioning even as a reserve army of labor:
increased incarceration, institutionalization, population control
policies, etc.

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>Subject: [PEN-L:21453] Re: RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of
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>From: "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx>
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>capitalism?
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>
>I don't know if anyone is familiar with Darity's thesis about
managerial
>society or the managerial mode of production, which he believes has
>developed out of capitalism. I am not sure if I agree that managerial
>society is a distinct mode of production that had superceded
capitalism,
>but I think the thesis that managerial capitalism is another stage of
>capitalism has something to it. In the managerial society, "experts"
run
>things and the system is based on credentialism. I can find the cites
if
>anyone';s interested. mat

Mathew, I am not familiar with this thesis (though I recall you bringing
it
up on this list earlier) but I am very interested in it.  The thesis
appears
to have some surface cogency, especially with regards to credentialism,
the
explosion in jail population in the U.S., populist authoritarianism in
politics on the rise since 1980, etc.
I would appreciate those citations.

-Frank G.

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