In a word search under "labor aristocracy" (exact phrase) I came up with an unexpected essay by no less an authority than Paul Krugman strikingly and unabashedly entitled "In praise of cheap labor: bad jobs at bad wages are better than no jobs at all": http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/smokey.html I guess there are at least some bourgeois economists then who accept the idea of a labor aristocracy having a relation to "globalization". There isn't much mystification here -- indeed, the class politics are strikingly obvious (reminiscent of the by-gone Reagan and Thatcher years). In solidarity, Jerry
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