A nice little history lesson, and assessment of the fast-degenerating state of labor (and laborers) in the USA: When the Bureau of Labor Statistics stopped counting this contingent workforce in 2005, it was already at 30 percent of all workers. Theyre temps, contract workers, seasonal workers, and warehouse labor filling boxes for Amazon. Theyre generally in service, retail, food production and dead-end office jobs: stocking shelves, killing meat animals in a factory, doing telemarketing or data entry, cleaning bathrooms, working security, etc. And theyre often deliberately kept from working 40 hours a week, because only then would they be entitled to benefits and legal protections reluctantly granted to full-time employees. gawker/labor-day-is-a-scam-to-keep-you-poor-and-miserable-fore-1218081585
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:33:26 +0000