Re: The Teixeira thesis

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

the politically correct definition of the "working class" is either (1) all those with paid jobs (including CEOs) or (2) those with relatively low incomes. Or course, many want to define "it" as vaguely as possible, because it plays well politically.

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Henwood [mailto:dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 9:18 AM
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> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The Teixeira thesis
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> 
> Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> 
> >In a meeting at EPI I said you could define
> >the working class as those who must work to finance a standard
> >of living, and somebody said that was a marxist definition.
> 
> What's the acceptable definition of the working class? People who
> bowl non-ironically?
> 
> Doug
>