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> Subject: [PEN-L:8000] contingent work
> Doug writes >>I'm amazed at how contingent work in general gets
> so much ink, but at least in the U.S. doesn't seem all that
> pervasive - under 5% of employment, and something like half of
> those are happy with their contingency.<<
>
Response:
Where do these numbers come from?; e.g. < 5% employment is contingent
and "something like half of those are happy with their contingency?"
"Something like half" are happy with being disposable--more
explicitly-- cogs in the machinery of capitalism to be used up and
disposed of with no regard to the contributions they have made?
Really? I have heard of poll madness, but this takes the cake. And
for someone on the left to make a statement like this? On what basis?
Who did the surveys? Where were they published? I wonder if our part-
time teachers were surveyed by the Administration how they like being
contingent workers how they would answer vs if they were surveyed
anonymously.
Of course in reality under capitalism all workers are contingent
workers in the real or de facto sense. Contingent workers have the
status that formalizes the de facto status of all workers under
capitalism.
I just find the above statements amazing--especially on pen-l.
Jim Craven
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