Good point, indeed, pretty much in line with the concept of segmented labor market introduced by Doeringer and Piore in 1971. Breakdown of your job tenure stats by industry and occupation may show some of it, if available.
Wojtek
--- On Wed, 7/22/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] duh, DeLong
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 9:00 PM
>
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> > But in the short term, i.e., this Great Recession,
> there has been a couple of records set as far as "people
> working part-time for economic reasons," no? Which I think
> it what a lot of people intuitively mean by the
> causalization of work even if it's not technically temporary
> work.
>
> Oh, absolutely - though that's not what people really mean
> by the casualization. They talk as if it's a long-term trend
> starting sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. But it's
> not.
>
> Shag makes a really good point when she says that people
> who make the casualization argument never really appreciated
> how volatile much blue-collar work really was. Even way back
> in the golden age, 1970, employment in auto - the
> prototypical "Fordist" job - was only about 1% of the total.
> As recently as 2001 it was just a hair under 1%. It's now
> about half that - a mix of cyclical and structural changes
> in recent years. Retail in 1970 was 10% of the total - now
> it's 11%. But to hear the Stanley Aronowitz's of the world
> talk, you'd think that everyone worked for GM 30 or 40 years
> ago and now everyone works for Wal-Mart.
>
> Doug
>
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