Group-based racial rule outcompetes individualizing ideology for cheap labor supply

Evidence

At the outset, the labor regime for mineral capitalism urged homo minimalis: strength over skill, youth over experience, physicality over intellectuality. In any case, an individualized relation to the deity might just as well spawn a sense of self-worth and equal standing, and so a disposition to reject, resist, or rebel against exploitative labor conditions as it did discipline, following orders, and deference. The political theology of race, drawing into common orbit British expansionist and boer settler in mineral-rich South Africa, was far more conducive to delivering labor, securing power, and controlling land – in short, producing the wealth of power through governing heterogeneity – than any simply individualized modality, whether of the missionaries or finance capitalists. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1447

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that individual self-worth risks rebellion is an empirical assertion worth testing against, e.g., Fordist autonomy-ideology debates.
• XREF: connects to: Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital; People stereotype groups to justify an existing division of labor; Racial theo-politics outperformed individualized labor modalities at delivering cheap labor and power (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial theo-politics outperformed individualized labor modalities at delivering cheap labor and power #corroborates (0.85)
• Racial ideology constituted the labor regime rather than merely rationalizing it after the fact #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1448
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital #qualifies (0.78)
• Race ideology overrides rational profit calculations in South African economy #exemplifies (0.75)
• People stereotype groups to justify an existing division of labor #corroborates (0.72)