I meant an early form of capitalism in which small capitalists hired skilled
labor; i.e. master, journeyman, ....
Jim Devine wrote:
> At 01:06 PM 5/8/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Yes, baseball is like craft-based capitalism;
>
> I think that the phrase "craft-based capitalism" is somewhat contradictory.
> I think a better phrase would be "craft-based commodity exchange." Even
> though professional baseball clearly reflects the class system it thrives
> in (though in surprising ways), the game itself is much more egalitarian
> than say, football. Baseball is egalitarian -- but also individualistic,
> because of the batter vs. pitcher battle which dominates the game.
>
> Football reminds me more of the army -- or of simple cooperation-based
> capitalism, with its hierarchy and its production process, which works more
> in parallel (everyone doing a different task, all at the same time) rather
> than in sequence (like an assembly line or a bucket-brigade).
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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