in the welfare, health and educational sectors who could at one stage of capitalist development regard themselves as part of the professional middle class-with salaries and conditions comparable to lawyers or accountants-find themselves subject to a traumatic process of proletarianisation. This, as we shall see, adds to the problems that beset national capitalist states as they attempt to cope with sudden crises. Public expenditures become a central focus for class struggle in a way in which they were not in Marx's time.
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