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> On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
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> It involves, well, a shift away from fixed full-time
>> employment and toward a labor force retained on temporary and flexible
>> terms: a labor force whose stability, strength, and magnitude continue
>> to wane in ratio to the increase in constant capital
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> This is widely believed, but not really borne out by the U.S. economic
> stats. Part-time employment was 12% of the total in 1960, 14% in 1970, 17%
> in 1980, 17% in 1990, and 16% in 2000. It's risen sharply in this recession,
> to 19% of the total. but there was just no long-term uptrend going into this
> recession. Temp employment was 1% of the total in 1990, 2% in 2000, and is
> back at 1% now.
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> Doug
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Does "temporary and flexible" neccessarily mean part-time or temp? The number of careers and jobs an American has over her lifetime has increased, for instance.