Employers structure work to reproduce privilege and secure profits as instruments of class position.

Evidence

In general, work will be structured by employers to achieve two com­ plementary objectives. The first is to reproduce their positions of privilege in the hierarchy of production. A closely related second objective is to secure adequate long-term profits, without which the enterprise would cease to exist. Thus profits are sought as an instrument in maintaining the class position as the directors of the firm and as their source of income. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 792

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Employer job design primarily protects class position through profitability — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 890; Job organization and hiring reflect class power, not just technology — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 812; Class membership is defined by control over the means of production (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Employer job design primarily protects class position through profitability #corroborates (0.92) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 890
• Hegemony can be achieved through dominance over the work process. #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1810
• Job organization and hiring reflect class power, not just technology #corroborates (0.78) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 812
• Class membership is defined by control over the means of production #expands (0.75)