>Well for one, the alledged "massive" productivity slowdown of 1973 is really
>a load of bunk. Yes, productivity slowed somewhat, but not because of worker
>stupidity (or too many women, blacks, etc).
Why not worker indiscipline? The "productivity slowdown" rhetoric, like the "inflation" rhetoric, accompanied a variety of social disturbances of the 1960s and early 1970s - urban riots in the US, near-revolution in France and Italy, rebellion among Third World commodity producers, etc. Of what use would a reworking of the economic stats that softened any impression of underlying trouble? To say that the working class has no power to fuck with capital?
Doug