I don't think we're disagreeing. Nathan: > a WPA like program that > employs people at the minimum wage level (generating a true minimum > wage by the way) and can be bid out of the program at any time by > capital.
these folks would not be counted as "officially unemployed" but would be part of the reserve army. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:08 PM, nathan tankus <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim said..."it's true that the reserve army of the unemployed that threatens > employed workers doesn't have to correspond to officially-measured > unemployment." > > that's not what I said Jim. what I said was I'm not convinced the > reserve army of labor has to be unemployed and I'm not convinced that > that was Marx's position either. > > -- > -Nathan Tankus > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
