[lbo-talk] US immiseration

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Mar 6 14:44:33 PST 2007


This is what the ILO says

http://laborsta.ilo.org/cgi-bin/brokerv8.exe#291 Non agricultural weekly hours US

1976 36.1 2006 33.9

http://laborsta.ilo.org/cgi-bin/brokerv8.exe#291 Non agricultural earnings per hour dollars

1976 4.86 1986 8.76 1996 12.03 2006 16.76

"Real earnings are expressed in constant dollars and are calculated from the earnings averages for the current month using a deflator derived from the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). The reference year is 1982."



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