"Brad McCormick, Ed.D." wrote: >> Job 'perks' make work tougher: study >> The Ottawa Citizen
> the company that hires more workers will incur more > costs, and since profit margins have been cut to > the [lean and mean] bone, the employers who > try to solve the situation will become uncompetitive -- > exactly why Marx said that the government had to > impose the 8 hour (or was it the 10 hour?) > workday by law in 19th century England. (BTW - also a paradigm example of why, for Marx, the problem is *structural* or systemic and has nothing whatsoever to do with the wishes or desires of the employer; if he (sic) wishes to be a humanitarian, then he will lose his capital and drop out of the game. So it's a waste of time worrying about the "ethics" of the owners. > It's a shame there isn't a God to damn them all. Indeed. Of course Karl's point was that *that* (damnation) is OUR job. [Thunder rumbles, clouds part, VOICE from above;] YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN ... Stephen Straker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vancouver, B.C. [Outgoing mail scanned by Norton AntiVirus] _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
