[lbo-talk] Workers Are on the Job More Hours over the Courseof the Year

[Gar Lipow]

On 5/14/07, tfast <tfast at yorku.ca> wrote:
> That should have read: more members of the working class work, but because
> of declining hours the total amount that the working class works is the
> same.

 > Again the empirics are:

 >

 > 1964.......1.00

 > 1970.......1.003

 > 1985.......0.982

 > 1990.......1.013

 > 2000.......1.037

 > 2006.......0.998

Tfast. If you really want to do the empirics, what percent of the
population was of working age each time. That is you have exclude
people too young or too old to work, because that might make a
difference, and recalculate your indexes based on percent of working
class of working age working.