Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 16:56:45 -0800
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Proletariatization of the "professional" fields...


"The Disciplined Mind" by Jeff Schmidt is a great book looking at how graduate
training prepares one to serve in the highly compromised and intellectually
restrained fields of professional employment... He suggest the best means of
surviving a graduate education is to utilize the techniques suggested by the
U.S. military to avoid brainwashing when a POW. Pages 9-10 of this pdf file
reviews the book and gives pub info:

http://www.processedworld.com/Issues/issue2001/pw2001_85-94_book_reviews.pdf

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eter Jovanovic wrote:

> hi all
>
> commie00 wrote:
> >in my estimation, this has been going on since the 40s so that now the bulk
> > >of doctors are merely employees of hospitals, lawyers merely employees of
> > >firms, etc.
>
> i know a whole bunch of law students and recently graduated lawyers. the
> ones who get good grades at law school usually join one of the big
> commercial law firms. they work pretty hard there for their high salaries -
> 60hrs/week if not more is common. however if they are reasonably competent
> they can expect to make partner within 15 years. not many other workers get
> the chance to buy an appreciable chunk of the business after 15 years
> service.
>
> some lawyers might be proletarians but most of them are mediators between
> capital and labour or between different capitalist interests. that to me
> makes them middle class in a similar way to cops.
>
> or given your disbelief in the existence of the middle class perhaps it
> could be said that lawyers and cops are part of the class-in-itself but are
> unlikely to become part of the class-for-itself.
>
> peter
>
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