ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the economic identification or the economic relation of teachers to the contemporary capitalist situation. Teachers, as State employees automatically perform the global function of capital. The concept of productive labour under capitalist mode of production has nothing to do with the determinate content of the labour itself nor has it anything to do with the use value of that which is produced. The new middle class is not, of course, being identified in terms of social stratification picked out by some factors as income or status, but rather in terms of the position it occupies within the capitalist production process as determined by the social division of labour. While the 'orthodox' problematic seems preoccupied with issue of upward mobility within social formations, the Marxist problematic is particularly incisive with regard to process of 'downward mobility' or proletarianisation within capitalist production relations. Proletarianisation has a special significance for the new middle class.
