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James L Westrich II westrich at miser.umass.edu
Wed Jun 2 05:32:23 PDT 1999



>jim wrote:


>>Has anyone seen any study indicating that temp and part-time employment,
>>speed-ups and stretch-outs, longer hours, forced overtime and other modes
>>of extracting absolute surplus value themselves increase or multiply during
>>or after industrial restructuring of various kinds that aims to lower unit
>>labor costs.


>I can't recall any such research offhand, but there is certainly enough
>evidence about that there is an increasing resort to the strategies of
>absolute s-v extraction, but I would maybe ask the question of what the
>relation of this is to relative s-v strategies, such as competerisation over
>the last decade or so. that both seem to have taken place suggests that
>the question is really one of the changes in the proportions b/n necessary
>and surplus labour, and the historical reasons for why they have accompanied
>eachother in a way that they didn't, say in australia after WW2. I'd be
>interested to know what people see as the reasons for this, or indeed if they
>accept the premises.


>Angela
>---
>rcollins at netlink.com.au



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