The regulated electric and gas monopolies have very loyal unionized employees that represent the companies before the commissions, legislatures and environmental and consumer activists.
On May 16, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Really? Exploded it with data? I always thought workers in big monopolized > industries got paid much better than average. The U.S. archetype was the auto > workers. > > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Max Sawicky > > > And the existence of monopoly rents is crucial in > > a number of other ways -- the ability to buy off workers > > A few years ago in an article in Historical Materialism Charles Post pretty > much exploded this concept. There is no evidence for it in any of its many > forms. > > Carrol > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
