Chris,
I hear contradictory messages on this issue. We all hear about
the shortage of 'knowledge' workers in NA but, we also hear about
all the unemployed 'knowledge' workers who can't get jobs -- either
because they want 'permanent' jobs (rather than contingent jobs) or
because the high tec
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Clearly capital is slavering to exploit these lucky workers (below).
But is this because in marxist terms, the rate of their exploitation is
particularly high - and outweighs the cost of their wages?
(((
Charles: Their status as immigrants p
I thought that we discussed this before. The key is that, except for the Y2K hype
period
when business needed experienced COBOL programmers, older programmers have difficult
finding jobs. Younger people are in demand. They can be manipulated to work longer
hours
and require less money. The i
Michael wrote:
>I thought that we discussed this before. The key is that, except for the
Y2K hype period
>when business needed experienced COBOL programmers, older programmers have
difficult
>finding jobs. Younger people are in demand. They can be manipulated to
work longer hours
>and require l
