Hierarchical labor shapes inequality through consciousness, not just wages

Evidence

It follows that the hierarchical division of labor affects inequality not only through wage differentials, but also through the divergent patterns of consciousness and motivation to which it gives rise. These patterns, as we will point out, tend to be transmitted through the family and impose severe limits on the functioning of the educational system. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 904

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Structural inequality has redistributed trillions from American workers to the richest — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 84; Internal work organization shapes income inequality independent of individual differences — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 877; Economic institutions perpetuate themselves through reproducing workers’ consciousness — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 1130 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Economic institutions perpetuate themselves through reproducing workers’ consciousness #expands (0.90) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 1130
• Collective worker consciousness extends from the factory to national and international division of labour #expands (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 814
• Gender stereotypes both reflect and reproduce the division of labor #exemplifies (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2922
• Postmodern mental fragmentation internalizes social division of labor into cognition itself #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 789
• Logical categories mirror social hierarchy and division of labor, not solidarity #expands (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 43
• Contemplation access forms gated communities of attention divided by inequality #exemplifies (0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 665
• Economic surplus reliably produces arbitrary-set systems of social hierarchy #expands (0.75)
• The demand for equality originates in wage labor’s commodity equivalences #qualifies (0.70)