From: BHANDARI, RAKESH (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Tue Sep 27 2005 - 19:51:07 EDT
Gerald, I have not yet the read article that you are criticizing in much the same that you critcized the dust jacket of the Bourdieu book for saying that the state constructs--rather than simply shapes--the housing market. Of course the dust jacket was not written by Bourdieu, and neither of us yet knows what role Bourdieu actually gave to the state. Perhaps he actually argues that it just actively shapes the housing/rental market. But if I remember correctly national health officials were compelled to report on a crisis of overwork in Britain, and I would recommend again Pietro Basso's book on the working day. That the working class is now in a defensive position vis-a-vis longer and more intense working hours is not as obviously incorrect as you are suggesting. Rakesh
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