Labor
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Re-industrialization is much more challenging than industrialization, perhaps impossible for different reasons than many people think. The missing resource isn't knowledge or energ...
This statement is entirely uninteresting, because ALL commodities under a wage labor system contain some exploitation, even a $500 shirt. So how do we measure ‘degree of exploitat...
Move to Sweden without an admission or a Job offer. Recently, Sweden has been experiencing a labor shortage across various sectors of its economy and Swedish government has implem...
Japanese labor use is horrifically inefficient. Here's an example: Do you need three people whose job it is to tell singular cars to pass? Do you need five restaurant or grocery...
When economists say a worker has low productivity, we’re saying the value-added (wage+profit) generated per hour of work is low. That’s not saying that worker is lazy - if anything...
🚨Please stop calling this brain drain. When there are high overseas returns to education, *more people get educated*. Think about all the folk working their asses off for this ex...
I've tried to explain that if America continues to develop towards a very high wage economy, it will become extremely difficult for the *average* person to pay other people to do a...
I sympathize but...'you can't con an honest man' Imagine this situation: A man readily does menial labor at a prestigious law firm, for free, so long as he has an email address/so...
What is capitalism? 💰 🧵(1/9) https://t.co/6OzwMVE65Y
A major reason the MAGA movement is completely useless is because they don't understand what blue collar jobs America is actually missing Blue collar workers aren't fucked by trad...
We talk a lot about occupational safety and health (OSH). But what is it? Why is it important? What is the ILO role? We will explain on this thread, come with us! 🧶👇
It's no surprise that when you accept investment from Apple suppliers, the push for increased efficiency can result in 24hrs production demands. Workers in industrial parks with b...
Do Chinese firms operating in sub-Saharan Africa pay lower wages than other firms? We investigate this question in our latest paper in which we compare wages for African workers in...
1. Ask any crop farmer out there and they'll tell you that at the moment, their biggest challenge is labour, not even capital. Since we're still heavily dependent on human labour i...
The number of job openings ticked down to 9.9 million in February, the lowest since May 2021 The ratio of vacancies to unemployed workers fell to 1.67, the lowest since late 2021...
𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 What occurs when workers sell their labour power to a capitalist? The employer gets the worker's labour power for a certain number of hours, in exchan...
🧵[1/n] #IndenturedLabour: The saga of 🇬🇧British colonizers replacing slavery with indentured labor, subjecting millions of Indian-origin workers to abuse and exploitation. In this...
1/5 Good article that argues that "deglobalization" will favor automation by driving up labor costs. This would be unambiguously a good thing if the resulting increases in workers'...
Labor markets more fluid than strict definition of working-age population i.e. "number of people between the ages of 16 and 59" For the 60/70s generation - particularly migrants l...
Germany 🇩🇪 has a pathway for highly skilled migrants to move from different parts of the world A thread 🧵
I don’t think people realize that automation, like everything else, is a field where there is severe diminishing returns on inputs. A few simple programmable logic controllers (PLC...
The term "wage slavery" is useful. Well-meaning mindful avoidance of it seems to sadly mosty benefit the worst people. Most workers rise, go get exploited by an "owner", get a cru...
WE HAVE A CONTRACT! After nearly two years of negotiations, the @ActBlueUnion represented by @CWG_Workers, is excited to announce the ratification of our first collective bargain...
CTU @Aspira Business & Finance members hosted a Breakfast Tailgate/Walk-In today to demand staffing for special ed & bilingual students. The action is part of charter educators' ef...
