Re: Seemingly relentless, neverendingly relevant... (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

I know I'm supposed to work tonight (ironically), but did you RSVP for
something here?

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:04:02 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > From: Monthly Review Press<http://www.monthlyreview.org/~press>
 >  > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:00:27 +0000
 >  > 
 >  > New! "Work Work Work," by Michael Yates
 >  > 
 >  > ** ...new from Monthly Review Press
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 >  > seemingly neverending, never more relevant...
 >  > https://monthlyreview.org/product/inequality-class-and-economics/?utm_source=MR+Email+List&utm_campaign=4be3b70a2a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_21_05_05_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4f879628ac-4be3b70a2a-295759213&mc_cid=4be3b70a2a&mc_eid=UNIQID
 >  > 
 >  > ** "People want better, more meaningful work that doesn’t kill us. Work, 
 >  > Work, Work (
 >  > https://monthlyreview.org/product/work-work-work/?utm_source=MR+Email+List&utm_campaign=4be3b70a2a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_21_05_05_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4f879628ac-4be3b70a2a-295759213&mc_cid=4be3b70a2a&mc_eid=UNIQID )
 >  >  is exactly what we need. For all of us concerned about how we escape from 
 >  > the racist, sexist, and ecologically destructive, winner-takes-all brutality 
 >  > of capitalism, this book is our indispensable guide and a manifesto for our 
 >  > times.”
 >  > ------------------------------------------------------------
 >  > 
 >  > —Hannah Holleman, organizer and professor of sociology at Amherst College
 >  > GET YOUR COPY OF Work Work Work HERE (
 >  > https://monthlyreview.org/product/work-work-work/?utm_source=MR+Email+List&utm_campaign=4be3b70a2a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_21_05_05_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4f879628ac-4be3b70a2a-295759213&mc_cid=4be3b70a2a&mc_eid=UNIQID )
 >  > 
 >  > For most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and sold in markets 
 >  > like any other – and what happens after that is not their concern. 
 >  > Individual prospective workers offer their services to individual employers, 
 >  > each acting solely out of self-interest and facing each other as equals. The 
 >  > forces of demand and supply operate so that there is neither a shortage nor 
 >  > a surplus of labor, and, in theory, workers and bosses achieve their 
 >  > respective ends.
 >  > 
 >  > Work Work Work (
 >  > https://monthlyreview.org/product/work-work-work/?utm_source=MR+Email+List&utm_campaign=4be3b70a2a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_21_05_05_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4f879628ac-4be3b70a2a-295759213&mc_cid=4be3b70a2a&mc_eid=UNIQID )
 >  >  reveals the raw truth: The labor market is in fact a mere veil over the 
 >  > exploitation of workers. Peek behind it, and we clearly see the extraction 
 >  > of surplus from a large and propertyless class of wage laborers, by a small 
 >  > but powerful class of productive property-owning capitalists.
 >  > Michael D. Yates, in Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation and Class Struggle (
 >  > https://monthlyreview.org/product/work-work-work/?utm_source=MR+Email+List&ut
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 >  >  offers us a glimpse into the mechanisms critical to this subterfuge:  In 
 >  > every workplace, capital implements a comprehensive set of control 
 >  > mechanisms to constrain those who toil from defending themselves against 
 >  > exploitation. These include everything from the herding of workers into 
 >  > factories to the extreme forms of surveillance utilized by today’s “
 >  > captains of industry” like the Walton family and Jeff Bezos. In these 
 >  > strikingly lucid and passionately written chapters, Yates explains the 
 >  > reality of labor markets, the nature of work in capitalist societies, and 
 >  > the nature and necessity of class struggle, which alone can bring 
 >  > exploitation – and the system of control that makes it possible – to a 
 >  > final end.
 >  > 
 >  > Learn more (
 >  > https://monthlyreview.org/press/forthcoming-work-work-work-by-michael-yates-excerpts/?utm_source=MR+Email+List&utm_campaign=4be3b70a2a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_21_05_05_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4f879628ac-4be3b70a2a-295759213&mc_cid=4be3b70a2a&mc_eid=UNIQID )
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 >  > 
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 >  > 
 >  > **
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 >  > 
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