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The work of these theorists and experimenters adheres with great discipline to the accepted views in their field, the paradigms. __Rank-and-file scientists are ideological in their work, then, not because they produce ideology like the elite, but because they confine themselves to the given ideology without deviation.__ This ideological discipline is characteristic of all rank-and-file professionals, who, unlike the nonprofessionals below them in status, are trusted to understand and use the ideology, but who, unlike the elite above them, are not employed to formulate or question the ideology.
Disciplined Minds
Jeff Schmidt
At a time of global environmental threat, the athleticism of accomplishment has to be rejected for its utter dependence on the growth mentality that exploits our finite resources.
Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy
Melissa Gregg
In a stagnant economy, Marx explained, the stagnant portion of capitalism’s “industrial reserve army” or “relative surplus population” will tend to grow. “Recruited from workers in large-scale industry and agriculture who have become redundant,” this stagnant surplus population comes to form a “self-reproducing and self-perpetuating element of the working class,” which takes “a proportionally greater part in the general increase of that class than the other elements.” Since their work is “characterized by a maximum of working time and a minimum of wages,” their “conditions of life” tend to “sink below the average normal level.” The expansion of this population was, for Marx, an “absolute general law of capitalist accumulation.”
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
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