At 20:39 15.07.2011, Doug Henwood wrote: >On Jul 15, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Hinrich Kuhls wrote: > > > In the last decade, the most important structural change has been the > > shift away from regular employment towards precarious employment. > > > > This shift is not reflected in the different figures of unemployment > > and employment/population ratio - just as Spence ignores this > > structural change when he states: "In Germany, the post-2000 reforms > > that reset the economy's productivity, flexibility, and > > competitiveness have proved crucial to the country's current economic > > strength and resilience." > > > > Structure of employees in Germany 2010 > > > > Total wage earners 100.0 > > Public servants (incl. armed forces) 5.0 > > regular employment 61.1 > > precarious employment 34.0 > > > > I assume that the respective figures show a similar picture for the > > society of the United States, now even more detoriated since "Selling > > women short" was written. > >Not sure about that. Part-time workers are about 19% of the total >now, not all that much higher than from 1970-2000, when they were >about 16-17% of the total. Temp workers account for a smaller share >of total employment than they did in 2000, which was the tightest >U.S. job market in a generation.
I stand corrected for the fact that the crucial shift to high precarious employment in the US was put into action before 2000. But this does not lever out the conclusion: The tendency to destruct wage as a social relation within advanced bourgeois societies is a rather recent challenge, which has to be analyzed theoretically and - more important - which has to be solved politically. Or do you think the stagnation of high precarious employment indicates already a change into the direction to re-regulate the labor market or to improve the conditions for defending wage as a social relation - despite the high unemployment, and despite the low influence of unions? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
