Job organization and hiring reflect class power, not just technology

Evidence

In short, power and technology both enter into the employer’s criteria of job organization and hiring. Neither can be well understood unless the class basis of the social relations of production are placed front and center. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 812

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the chapter’s core thesis in one compact sentence: production relations must be read through class power.
• XREF: connects to: Employers structure work to reproduce privilege and secure profits as instruments of class position. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 792; Machinery’s skill hierarchy preselects which class ideology will arise — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 571; Employer job design primarily protects class position through profitability — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 890 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Employer job design primarily protects class position through profitability #corroborates (0.95) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 890
• Machinery’s skill hierarchy preselects which class ideology will arise #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 571
• Job polarization trends stem from political and institutional choices, not technological inevitability #corroborates (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 572
• The Industrial Revolution transformed social organization of work, not just technology #exemplifies (0.80) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 557