Luddism

[Kelley Walker]

At 08:17 PM 7/17/01 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote:
>Kelley, these are the same authors that Doug has previously torn to shreds.
>Look at hours on the job.  Yes, it fell from 1870 till 1973.  What about the
>1990 data?  Well, more and more jobs are part-time.  Is that progress?  So, if
>you have 2 part time jobs both jobs will contribute toward a lowered average
>time on the job.

Yeah, but this was on the bootstrap study where they argue that people move 
up the ladder, yes? I was wondering if anyone had looked at the way they 
decided to count these hours. I find it suspicious, for example, that they 
count household labor form a century ago and don't seem to think it 
necessary to count "going to school" as a form of labor!