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The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
| 21. April 2008 | | Jure
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker se imenuje knjiga Stevena Greenhousa. The New York Times je objavil odlomek, ki ga je vredno prebrati.
ONE OF THE LEAST EXAMINED but most important trends taking place in the United States today is the broad decline in the status and treatment of American workers — white-collar and blue-collar workers, middle-class and low-end workers — that began nearly three decades ago, gradually gathered momentum, and hit with full force soon after the turn of this century. A profound shift has left a broad swath of the American workforce on a lower plane than in decades past, with health coverage, pension benefits, job security, workloads, stress levels, and often wages growing worse for millions of workers.
That the American worker faces this squeeze in the early years of this century is particularly troubling because the squeeze has occurred while the economy, corporate profits, and worker productivity have all been growing robustly. In recent years, a disconcerting disconnect has emerged, with corporate profits soaring while workers’ wages stagnated.
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Neoliberalni so znani po tem, da se radi hvalisajo kako so “porihtali svet” po l. 1980 in limajo vse mogoče grafe. Le rast plač za posamezne segmente prebivalstva in delovne pogoje na splošno zelo radi zanemarijo.
Preden zacnete spet v en rog tuliti floskule o ZDA, bi vas opozoril samo naslednje: pri nas, v dezeli delovnega ljudstva, kjer so delavci pred povampirjenimi delodajalci zasciteni pod krilom titansko mocnih sindikatov in kjer The Big Squeeze nad delavci nima moci, tukaj 95% zaposlenih zasluzi toliko, da bi se po ameriskih standardih uvrstili med uradno revne!
In to kljub izredno nizkem dolarju - pred 5 leti smo bili po standardih ZDA revni skoraj vsi Slovenci!
neverjetno LOL
Najbrž desetletja protekcionizma pred 2. svetovno vojno, popolnoma nepoškodovana industrija med obema vojnama, protekcionizem po 2. svetovni vojni, državno koordinirana vojaška-gospodarska industrija (iz katere izhajajo domala vsi pomembni tech in high-tech proizvodi 20. stoletja), velikanski domači trg in še in še, vse to najbrž ni imelo nobene zveze z razvojem ljube Amerike.
Za vse se lahko zahvali čarobnosti laissez faire. In King Kongi letijo.