Marxist section of the American Sociological Association review of The Dunayevskaya, Marcuse, Fromm Correspondence

http://www.scribd.com/doc/193404972/Marxist-Sociology-Section-ASA-Review-Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm

Automation Targeting Even Low-Wage Jobs

This past summer, David H. Autor,  professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and David Dorn, assistant professor of economics at the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies in Madrid, wrote an article in the New York Times, "How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class". Autor has been a primary figure in promoting the thesis that technological changes in the economy are responsible for job market "polarization"-- as employment in routine jobs has ebbed, employment has risen both in high-wage managerial, professional and technical occupations and in low-wage, in-person service occupations:

So computerization is not reducing the quantity of jobs, but rather degrading the quality of jobs for a significant subset of workers. Demand for highly educated workers who excel in abstract tasks is robust, but the middle of the labor market, where the routine task-intensive jobs lie, is sagging. Workers without college education therefore concentrate in manual task-intensive jobs — like food services, cleaning and security — which are numerous but offer low wages, precarious job security and few prospects for upward mobility. This bifurcation of job opportunities has contributed to the historic rise in income inequality.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/how-technology-wrecks-the-middle-class/?smid=pl-share

But in a report in the 11/29/13 NYT, "Coming Soon, a Night Watchman With Wheels", science writer John Markoff, writes:

A company in California has developed a mobile robot, known as the K5Autonomous Data Machine, as a safety and security tool for corporations, as well as for schools and neighborhoods...The night watchman of the future is 5 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds and looks a lot like R2-D2 – without the whimsy. And will work for $6.25 an hour.

And the addition of such a machine to the labor market could force David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist, to rethink his theory about how technology wrecks the middle class.

The minimum wage in the United States is $7.25, and $8 in California. Coming in substantially under those costs, Knightscope’s robot watchman service raises questions about whether artificial intelligence and robotics technologies are beginning to assault both the top and the bottom of the work force as well.

 Over all, there are about 1.3 million private security guards in the United States, and they are low paid for the most part, averaging about $23,000 a year, according to the Service Employees International Union. Most are not unionized, so they are vulnerable to low-cost automation alternatives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/science/coming-soon-a-night-watchman-with-wheels.html?smid=pl-share

Presentation at 2013 International Herbert Marcuse Conference, Lexington, Kentucky

Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm's Marxism: Their Trajectories, Intersections, and Social Relevance

http://www.scribd.com/doc/183425104/Marcuse-and-Fromm-s-Marxism-2013-International-Herbert-Marcuse-Kentucky-Conference-pdf

Special Double Issue of Radical Philosophy Review on Herbert Marcuse

CRITICAL REFUSALS
Special Double Issue

Radical Philosophy Review, Volume 16, Number 1 (2013)
Radical Philosophy Review, Volume 16, Number 2 (2013)

Andrew T. Lamas, General Editor and Coeditor
Arnold L. Farr, Douglas Kellner, and Charles Reitz, Coeditors
Caroline Cohn, Associate Editor

Includes Russell Rockwell Marcuse's Hegelian Marxism, Marx's Grundrisse, Hegel's Dialectic


http://eepurl.com/HXtHL

See also announcement of draft manuscript of Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man discovered in the Goldfarb library at Brandeis University

http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2013/october/marcuse.html

2013 International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference: Russell Rockwell on Marcuse's and Fromm's Marxism

Friday, November 8, University of Kentucky, Lexington

2:15pm-3:45pm Session 3: Concurrent 

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 8: Marcuse, Marx, and Marxisms

Fred Mecklenburg Marx’s Marxism: A New Attitude to Objectivity

David M. Peña-Guzman The Marxism-Heideggerianism Tension: A Philosophical Disjunction

Karla Encalada Falconi Marx and Lacan: The Comparison of the Impossible

Russell Rockwell Marcuse’s and Fromm’s Marxism: Their Trajectories, Intersections, and Social Relevance

http://www.scribd.com/doc/175978030/2013-Marcuse-Program-rev-10-11-2013-1pm-1

Today's Economy and the Changing Relationships of the Economic and the Social

http://www.scribd.com/doc/171944795/v6-2013-Andy-Lamas-Class-Lecture-U-of-Penn

Russell Rockwell Remarks at 2013 Left Forum: Newly Published Dunayevskaya, Marcuse, Fromm Correspondence, Editors Meet Critics

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1EMkTi7WgJIZ19UUVRxSmoweVE/view?usp=sharing