Employers exploit society’s broader prejudices as a free labor-control resource

Evidence

The individual employer, acting singly, normally accepts social values and beliefs and will violate them only in the interest of long-term financial benefits. The broader prejudices of society are thus used as a resource by employers in their effort to control labor. In this way, the pursuit of profits and security of class position reinforces racist, sexist, and credentialist forms of status consciousness. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 916

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the earlier-passage theme that capitalism rides preexisting racism rather than inventing it, echoing Black Marxism’s argument that racial ideology predated and shaped capitalism. — connects to: New labor groups arrive superexploited and branded, then rise as later waves follow — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 666; Schooling’s income payoff is twice as high for white males — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 923; Those who profit most from exploitation actively propagate prejudice — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 118 (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 916

Broader Connections

• Those who profit most from exploitation actively propagate prejudice #expands (0.82) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 118