Craft and globalization

We see a division in the American economy, a bifurcation based upon a service sector that has gained ascendence over agriculture (although we still eat) and industry (although we still use tools and materials). The service sector is split into high and low end. High end service sector is simply a mass of differentiated professionals, itself undergoing the divisions that accompany any process of proletarianization. The low end service sector in large part caters to itself, the remnants of industrial and agricultural labor, and especially high end service.

The current strength of the American economy is allegedly based on professional services.

The question we are left with is the precise nature of these "exports", this service sector.

To a significant degree it appears that the American high end service sector is essentially managerial knowledge in various mutations.

This means that America exports, simply enough, systems of power and logics of coordination and control, embodied in the form of particular professional classes and their codified and specialized individual wills.

A revolt against Americanism becomes at once a revolt against the hierarchy and efficiency of the modern economy.

What clases then are most open to radical action? Precisely those survivals based on the integration of management and action, i.e. skilled labor. In theory craft logic is most opposed to globalization of control because as a form of labor it most decisively locates the will of labor at the point of application, not divorced from the point of application.