India's Long Road
by Vijay Joshi · 21 Feb 2017
labour. It is not the answer to the employment needs of millions of low-skilled people with only primary and secondary education. They require industrial blue-collar work, with most training received on the job. The second manifestation of the bias against labour is the highly peculiar employment- size- distribution of India’s
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by Sarah Jaffe · 26 Jan 2021 · 490pp · 153,455 words
up as adjuncts, in the service industry, or sometimes both. In a 2019 interview, Barbara Ehrenreich explained, “I would say that what happened to the blue-collar working class with deindustrialization is now happening with the PMC—except for the top managerial end of it.” In other words, instead of a professional-managerial
Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
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ourselves that is financially and spiritually rewarding. Take someone who, despite his best efforts, struggles with academic work. There are still enormous opportunities for skilled blue-collar work—for mechanics, electricians, plumbers, welders, and the like. These are well-paying jobs that can be deeply fulfilling, and yet millions of such jobs are
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former Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe has argued, the main reason for this is that “our society [has] waged . . . a sort of cold war on [blue-collar] work. . . . [L]ook at the way those industries are portrayed in pop culture. Show me a plumber, and I’ll show you a 300-pound guy
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workers both more productive and freer to exercise choice. Labor’s share of the enterprise surplus rose. Factory jobs never became pleasant. But at least blue-collar work now enabled a middle-class existence, with all its consumption possibilities and lifestyle opportunities. Technological progress fostered industrial capitalism, but would eventually undermine it. Labor
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saw unprecedented compression between the wealthy and the poor. It was fueled by high taxes on upper incomes, healthy American industries with high wages for blue-collar work, demographic growth, and an expanding managerial sector. The union movement flourished, and 35 percent of the workforce was unionized in 1954—the highest percentage in
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financial reasons, and it was during that year that he became acquainted with Marxism.135 Unlike either Baran or Sweezy, Braverman had direct experience of blue-collar work under monopoly capitalism. He spent four years working as a coppersmith apprentice at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, before joining the army and then working as
Hollow City
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THE SOCIAL CONTRACT with the poor, the needy, the recent arrival from Seattle borhood complains "invites these where I pay clientele trial and even with blue-collar work. (A festive, who bought a loft condo in an industrial neigh- that the Maritime Hall, a longtime nightclub nearby, people not just to the Maritime
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or customer service in a retail shop; and nonroutine “cognitive” jobs such as marketing.14 Traditionally, routine jobs encompassed a wide range of clerical and blue-collar work that required some training or education but not a prohibitive amount—and jobs in which young workers especially might acquire skills that would allow them
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real terms, has declined.12 The three decades preceding the Great Recession of 2007 saw wages stagnate for full-time male workers, particularly those doing blue-collar work.13 And retirement security remains a real worry for many Americans, even as few have embraced strategies that would help to finance the elderly lifestyle
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production; large populations of wage earners concentrated in factory settings; professionalized administrative hierarchies; managerial authority; functional specialization; and the distinction between white-collar work and blue-collar work. The list is illustrative, not exhaustive, but enough to remind us that industrial civilization was drawn from these expressions of the economic imperatives that ruled
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