Harry Pollard wrote:
Of course things would be different if there was a shortage of
available labor instead of an abundance.
There are *so many reasons* for the not-well-to-do to have few or no
children,
including to be able to apply their meager earnings undiluted to meeting
their own needs, and also to reducing the pool of available "labor power".
I know there are also down-side considerations (I, for
one, would not like to understand that the reason I was born was to
be my parents' "old age and disability insurance", however), but at least
our great universities could do the relevant research, to
"quantify" the option space, couldn't they?
\brad mccormick
Harry
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Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:19 AM
To: Christoph Reuss; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Futurework] From 9 to 5 to 24/7
As a business consultant in NY City I once had a boss who no
matter what time I arrived in the office, he was always there
earlier.
And he often left a note on my chair asking for something. On
the note he always put down the time. This, probably, to
underscore that I should have been there earlier.
In the aged of Blackberries and cellphones I can see how this
ex-boss of mine would have a "field day" terrorizing his
employees.
arthur
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Christoph Reuss
Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 7:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Futurework] From 9 to 5 to 24/7
Ed Weick wrote:
When I was in my teens I spent fourteen months working in a
sawmill which
was part of a huge pulp and paper mill. We worked three
shifts, changing
every couple of weeks. Day shift was 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Night
shift was 5
p.m. to midnight; and Graveyard was midnight to 8 a.m. It's
probable that
people who work in large operations that are difficult to shut
down and
start up still work shifts like that.
Shift work is still of the "9 to 5" kind, albeit shifted. "24/7"
is
different -- it refers to an around-the-clock availability of the
wage
slave that is fostered by e-mail and cell-phones. People have
been fired
because they dared to turn off their private cell-phone (during
their
"leisure" time!) so they didn't "see" a new order from the boss
in time.
(Self-employed "one-person companies" are also often exposed to
"24/7",
waiting for orders from customers.)
The shift workers of the old days couldn't even dream of such a
level
of exploitation -- they at least had their leisure and sleep
times and
their weekends for themselves.
Chris
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