Employer job design primarily protects class position through profitability

Evidence

We have argued that the overriding objective of employers in organizing production and assigning workers to occupational slots is the perpetutation or enhancement of their class standing. The necessary condi­ tion for this is the profitability of the enterprise. Profitability, in turn, is sought through the complementary, but far from identical, strategies of efficiency and control. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 890

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to earlier learned themes about institutions and class-reproduction theory (Bowles-Gintis, Miliband); resonates with the base-nation military-institutional logic and skill vs. control debates. — connects to: Employers structure work to reproduce privilege and secure profits as instruments of class position. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 792; Job organization and hiring reflect class power, not just technology — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 812; Role design determines how much moral disengagement a job demands — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2055

Broader Connections

• Role design determines how much moral disengagement a job demands #expands (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2055