Workers can demand their own exclusionary privileges that fragment solidarity

Evidence

Thus it is not surprising that some workers themselves often demand (and are granted) higher wages or privileges which de facto exclude other groups of workers on the basis of educational credentials, racial and sexual characteristics, and artificially maintained skill differences. Such demands are relatively cheap and help to enforce the internal social order of the enterprise because they reinforce the internal stratification and fragmentation of worker solidarity. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 811

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader fragmentation-of-the-ruled thesis (ch25) and to dominant-group privilege-maintenance dynamics in stratified workforces. — connects to: Uneven economic development fragments workers into distinct segmented groups — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 671; Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1243; Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose #complicates (0.80) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1243
• Proximity to power buys privilege at the cost of self-respect and solidarity. #corroborates (0.80)
• Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle #complicates (0.78)
• Exclusionary practices against Others inflict harm by altering people’s social worth #corroborates (0.75) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 71
• Neoliberal restructuring systematically further privileges the already privileged #exemplifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1742