Marv wants to compare days on strike versus total days worked in the economy. But he can't even use his own data with any competence.
Here is a chart of his preferred measure, percent of total working time lost in strikes. It shows very much the same thing shown by the chart I used of strike days alone (a few posts prior to this one): a secular turn to a relentless fall started around 1973-74. You could even argue it began in 1970. There is nothing special in either chart around 1980. Marv cannot compare comparables, because it belies his fixed idea that the secular fall began in 1980 or maybe two years earlier. So he once again throws out numbers from scattered, cherry-picked years. And once again, the fundamental turn in U.S. capitalism that has persisted to this day began before financialization rocketed and before globalization took off. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29124): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29124 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104479559/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
