One question that this raises is whether what goes on
in the decorated shed is going to become more banal or less. Linda
Duxbury, who teaches business at Carleton University, argues that with the
impending retirement of the baby boom population, employment will become a
sellers market - people who are looking for jobs will be scarcer and will have
the upper hand. But one wonders if they really will. Perhaps they
will be paid a little more, but have to work longer hours and be run off their
feet. Some of the work Duxbury is doing on work/life balance suggests
that people in managerial positions are already working at the exhaustion
level.
Ed
> with the theme of:
>
> transparency
>
> See: http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/
>
> You will probably guess that this idea appeals to me, along
> with the location of the factory in Dresden (why couldn't
> they have built it in Newark NJ USA, or maybe even
> on the site of the former World Trade Center in NYC USA???).
>
> I have no idea how far VW is going to carry this
> theme, but the very words contrast antipodally with the
> watchword of postmodern architecture (which, to the
> best of my knowledge, is one of America's contributions to
> the cultural world of the late 20th century):
>
> the decorated shed
>
> A decorated shed, in case you don't know what it refers to,
> is a glitzy veneer facade which covers up a banal lifeworld
> within.
>
> Perhaps the heritage of Universalizing Culture in The West
> is not so dead in Europe, so that the future may
> not belong only to the Chinese after all. As a different
> NYT article recently suggested, the United States is
> becoming a source of cheap labor for Europe (I posted
> a little piece of my own experience here, working for
> Grolier Publisher after the French firm Hachett(sp?)
> bought the company and in no way provided working
> conditions similar to France here).
>
> As Koffi Anan said about Saddam Husein's Iraq, we need
> more "transparency".
>
> \brad mccormick
>
> --
> Let your light so shine before men,
> that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
>
> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
>
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