US education has maintained a reserve army of skilled labor.

Evidence

Part of the answer lies again in market and property relations: the em­ ployer has the formal right to hire and fire. This right is effective, however, only when the cost to workers is high; that is, when there is a large pool of labor with the appropriate skills available in the larger society, into which workers are threatened to be pushed. Indeed, we shall suggest that the maintenance of such a “reserve army” of skilled labor has been a major, and not unintended, effect of U.S. education through the years. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 585

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Marx’s reserve army of labor concept and to the already-extracted claim that schooling produces subordinate workers. — connects to: Education is shaped by the economic need for children’s productive labor.; Public schooling in America was founded to produce a properly subordinate adult population; Higher education now produces skills instead of ideals or emancipation. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 359 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Higher education now produces skills instead of ideals or emancipation. #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 359
• Recession conditions let education groups convert schooling into a tool for industrial needs #expands (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1124
• Education is shaped by the economic need for children’s productive labor. #expands (0.75)
• Public schooling in America was founded to produce a properly subordinate adult population #corroborates (0.72)