Thank you, Tom, for another gem for my archives
Colin Stark
At 08:28 PM 10/18/98 -0700, Tom Walker wrote:
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>It's too bad that these kinds of discussions continue to ignore the clear
>and very useful definitions given by Andre Gorz in his book "Critique of
>Economic Reason".
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>It is not that Gorz is demeaning such activities, rather he is saying that
>the the current emphasis on economic rationality will inevitably demean the
>activities and those who perform them (for want of a 'proper' job). In other
>words, it is futile to look for labour market solutions from the so-called
>third sector on the presumption that the first and second sectors can be
>left pretty much as they are. Otherwise, the third sector jobs would be
>better described as second class jobs and those who are forced to hold them
>as second class citizens. One need look no further than the implementation
>of "workfare" schemes in Ontario and New York City and the readiness of
>governments to deny rights of union organizing to see where fuzzy,
>pseudo-economic thinking about the third sector leads.
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>
>Regards,
>
>Tom Walker
