Jim O'Connor invites us to think about the extent to which quality improvement
are built into capitalist competition. In longer historical context it appears
that competition has favoured those producing inferior goods. The Dutch out
smarted the Italians by producting cheaper garments. The
Is this vast wedge between pay productivity sustainable?
Doug
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PS: I'd like to hear more about your work on SK steel.
On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Anthony D'Costa wrote:
Low wages is a challenge, no
Low wages is a challenge, no doubt, especially when combined with high
productivity. Harley Shaiken's study on the maquiladoras (1990) and my
own study of the South Korean steel industry indicate. Increasingly I
see the possibility of other products, software for example, to be driven
by