Weekend Economists Ring in the Old, Wring Out the New: Dec. 30, 2011 to Jan. 2, 2012

[bread_and_roses]

131. So now they want to try roses without bread

NOT that increasing worker control over schedules and reasonable adjustments for child care, illness, etc are BAD things - they're not (although in this case they are just more band-aids in an insane and unsustainable system - so they'll make it easier to work three jobs, ROFL except it's not funny) - but I think that the "experts argue[ing] that actual wages are less important than the work schedule..." were not focused on very low-wage jobs.

So fuck you, Susan Lambert, you "an associate professor at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration."
You, Susan, are part of the reason that I hate the "professional" social worker class (although yes, there are of course good people among them). You are part of the problem, Susan, you and your parasitical Oligarch-enabling colleagues.

on edit: Having now read "The Long Revolution" article it seems to me that it speaks particularly to "Susan" and her ilk:

"In many ways, this scaling down also allows intellectuals to abrogate their responsibilities as teachers of ethics by retreating into more and more rationalized "specialities" that effectively disengage us from imagining and thinking through the bigger picture, and allow us to remain in small-scale analytical frames.

Immanuel Wallerstein put it this way: "What the concept of the two cultures [those of the sciences and the humanities] had achieved was the radical separation, for the first time in the history of humanity, in the world of knowledge between the true, the good, and the beautiful." Wallerstein draws the conclusion that "the great methodological debates that illustrated the historical construction of the social sciences were sham debates, which distracted us from realizing the degree to which the 'divorce' between philosophy and science effectively eliminated the search for the good from the realm of knowledge and circumscribed the search for truth into the form of microscopic positivism that took on many guises." [ii]"

Bold that last sentence - a "microscopic positivism" indeed.