>>>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
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