Hierarchy in production arises from control mechanisms, not property ownership per se

Evidence

It is the interaction of these market and property institutions which leads to the prevailing pattern of dominance and subordinacy in production. By no means does private ownership of capital alone lead to the overarching power of business elites to control economic life. Indeed, ownership is merely an amorphous legality. Thus in state socialist countries such as the Soviet Union, many of the patterns of economic control found in the United States are observed although private ownership of capital is non­ existent, Indeed, the degree to which education is similar in capitalist and state socialist countries can be attributed, we believe, to the similarity in their respective mechanisms of social control in the economic sphere. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 602

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that Soviet-style economies reproduce capitalist workplace hierarchy connects to Milgrom’s institutional analysis of social capital and to Frankfurt School accounts of the administered society. — connects to: Factory production emerged as a means of controlling workers, not technical superiority — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 748; Class is defined by relation to production, incorporating both property and control — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 679; Economic control patterns persist regardless of capital ownership form — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 602
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what exactly does the author hold identical about USSR and US educational control mechanisms, and does this survive the post-Soviet record?

Broader Connections

• Economic control patterns persist regardless of capital ownership form #corroborates (0.90) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 602
• Factory production emerged as a means of controlling workers, not technical superiority #corroborates (0.85) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 748
• Class is defined by relation to production, incorporating both property and control #corroborates (0.75) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 679