re Paulo's 6828 >Hi Cyrus, welcome to the Ope-l. The title of the book you co-edited interests >me. Would you please send us the table of contents, even if briefly stated. >Thank you, >Paulo > >P.S. I have been thinking about how a marxian book on labor economics would >look like and came to the following points > >I. Inclusion >1. exploitation >2. forms of wages and exploitation Paulo, while I2a may include analysis of time vs piece wages and I2b wages vs. salaries, would I2c include analysis of formally free and formally unfree forms of *capitalist* exploitation? What did you make of the story that I downloaded in OPE-L 6817? I have had some offlist discussion with Patrick Mason about this, and I am trying to encourage him to return. Have you reviewed Ingrid H Rima Labor Markets in a Global Economy (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1996)? > >II. Exclusion >3. technological change and exclusion (industrial reserve army) Chris Freeman wrote an interesting book on technological unemployment. I learned a great deal from this forgotten classic, Alexander Gourvitch, Survey of Economic Theory on Technological Change and Employment, New York: Augustus Kelley, 1966 [1940]. >4. exclusion and self-employment >5. historicam transformation in the composition of the resenve army One interesting aspect here is border politics. As workers have been laid off in the US, they have found themselves returning back to Latin American, Mexico in particular. Another interesting aspect would be the export of workers. Do exporting countries really relieve unemployment and collect hard currency through the export of workers? If there is a net loss, then would do they allow it? Can they stop it? > >IV. labor process and forms of control >6. technological change, labor process and forms of control over labor Interesting that Rima has little to say about this, but I am sure Tony Smith does. > >V. Differentiation >7. competition and wage differentials >8. wage differentials and different rates of exploitation > >I would like to hear from our colleagues what they think would compose a table >of contents of a book on labor economics. >Paulo > All the best, Rakesh
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