pretty sure it was this one: "Piero Sraffa and the Rate of Exploitation", 1965, New Left Review there is a reference to the poverty in Jamaica if i remember correctly
----- Original Message ----- From: raghu <[email protected]> To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> Subject: Spam:******, Re: [Pen-l] Nicholas Kristof and sweatshops Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:06:02 -0600 > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Jim Devine > > <[email protected]> wrote: Joan Robinson really did > > say the thing about "being exploited is better than not > > being exploited." (I'm looking for the reference.) I > understood it as saying that _under unfettered capitalism_ > > it's better to be in the active army of labor (employed) > > than being part of the reserve army (unemployed). > > > Especially when even organized labor does nothing to > support the unemployed or the Third World poor. > -raghu. > > > -- > milli-helen : The amount of beauty required to launch one > ship. _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
