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10666 [lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Chrysler Group to Be Sold for $7.4 Billion Man that's cheap. Wal-Mart is capitalized at $197 billion, 26 times as much. Microsoft, $295 billion, almost 40 times as much. Apple, $94 billion, 12 times as much. eBay, $47 billion, more than 6 times as much. How the mighty have fallen. The UAW is going to get hammered. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 14 09:02:18 PDT 2007

10667 [lbo-talk] Workers Are on the Job More Hours over the Course of the Year (was Working hours) -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Here's a table that presents useful international comparison of annual > hours worked: "Table F. Average Annual Hours Actually Worked per > Person in Employment," > <http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/53/15/36900060.pdf>. Calculated on this > basis, the annual hours worked per person peaked in the mid-1990s in > the USA, but US workers probably continue to feel the family time > crunch -- especially paucity o ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 08:55:00 PDT 2007

10668 [lbo-talk] Working hours (Was: Why is America so violent) -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Would it be fair to conclude from the discussion that the official > statistics, which register a historical decline in hours of work, > are still > misleading in that they don't capture the huge volume of unrecorded > and > unpaid hours of work that many workers, predominantly those at the > higher > education and income levels, perform at home or elsewhere outside > their > workplace and their regularly schedul ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 08:36:19 PDT 2007

10669 [lbo-talk] Why is America so violent -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 1:17 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > Just wanted to mention that making comparisons > between a member of left business observer's list serve who does > not own a > television Point of fact: we have a TV and digital cable, and watch it. Couldn't live without it. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 14 06:40:34 PDT 2007

10670 [lbo-talk] Working hours (Was: Why is America so violent) -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2007, at 10:45 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Do the BLS stats reflect household or payroll data? > > If the latter, wouldn't the agency then have two data sets for the > same > individual - showing in one case an average five day work week of > 30 hours > drawn on his/her Walmart time card and an average work week of 20 > hours from > his/her bar job? The hours data comes (or, if I were the Fed, come) from the payroll survey. Their focus is the job, not the w ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 06:38:15 PDT 2007

10671 [lbo-talk] Why is America so violent -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The numbers offered on this are artifacts which tell us nothing either > way about how actual people live. The number 8.63 hours of sleep gives > us no information whatever of how many employed people between the > ages > of 19 and 55 sleep less or more than 8 hours. This topic can't be > studied in terms of averages or other indexes. The numbers don't tell you what you want to hear, so better to head for Deep Truth instead. DI ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 06:32:23 PDT 2007

10672 [lbo-talk] Why is America so violent -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2007, at 7:38 PM, tfast wrote: > That is kind of odd as it is the old blue collar occupations which > have the > highest hours which have been pretty stable since 64. It is services > including professional services along with financial services that > have been > declining. But manuf'g has been declining as a share of the labor force, from 30% in 1950 to 10% today. In retail and foodservice, whose share has gone from 18% to 24%, the problem is often getting enoug ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 06:27:16 PDT 2007

10673 [lbo-talk] US average weekly hours worked (Why is America so violent) -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Does this correlate to an increase in the proportion of part-time > workers, > eg. 30 hours or less, or is the widespread perception of a huge > increase in > voluntary and involuntary part-time employment also wrong? That perception is way at odds with the facts. The part-time share of the U.S. workforce has been almost perfectly flat at 16-17% since 1970s. It was 14% in 1960. The share working part-time for economic reasons ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 06:00:29 PDT 2007

10674 [lbo-talk] US average weekly hours worked (Why is America so violent) -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 4:44 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > I think the comment of Doug's Miles remembers is this: > > "Total hours worked in the U.S. private sector have risen 70% since > 1973; > the pop is up only 43%. So the rise in > aggregate consumption has come with a huge increase in the work > effort" > > Which is an estimate of the total hours worked, in relation to the > total > population, whereas you would need to relate it to the working > p ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 05:57:02 PDT 2007

10675 [lbo-talk] Why is America so violent -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2007, at 6:09 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Do these figures about the glorious explosion of > leisure control for the increase in two income > families? We don't have historical data from the BLS. The private surveys, like Michigan and Maryland, say contradictory things I think. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 13 16:00:01 PDT 2007

10676 [lbo-talk] Why is America so violent -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2007, at 5:48 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Maybe. My answer would be to look at what has changed - principally > the > declining role of organised labour, which leaves people in an > unmediated > relationship with their employers. That makes them more vulnerable. > And it > makes them feel even more vulnerable. Dunno, but my sense is that the people who complain most about the time crunch are members of the professional/managerial class. The BLS time use survey ...

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Date:	Sun May 13 15:59:09 PDT 2007

10677 [lbo-talk] Why Is America So Violent? -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > do the figures > take into account hours of sleep average: 8.63 hrs, women getting slightly more than men <ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/atus.txt>

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Date:	Sun May 13 11:28:44 PDT 2007

10678 [lbo-talk] Why Is America So Violent? -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > I'm really suspicious of this. We spend more time per household on > paid work than before. We spend more time per household on commuting > to and from paid work than before. Those two facts are right there in > the same studies. So where is all this new leisure time coming from? Than before when? It all depends on what your baseline is. In any case, whatever the historical trajectory, the BLS's time use survey <ftp://ftp.bls.gov ...

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Date:	Sun May 13 10:18:51 PDT 2007

10679 [lbo-talk] Why Is America So Violent? -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > In the U. S., it's an irrefutable fact that the average worker is > working far, far more than the average worker in previous generations Is that really true? The 40-hour week was a major victory for the working class - in the 19th century, the workweek was a hell of a lot longer. Americans may be working more now than in the 1950s or 1960s, and certainly the population as a whole is working longer (for pay that is) than then. But th ...

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Date:	Sun May 13 09:25:44 PDT 2007

10680 [lbo-talk] Why Is America So Violent? -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2007, at 4:50 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > There is however, another explanation, which I derive from David > Wainwright's book Work Stress, which suggests that there is also a > social > trend that alters our subjective experience of work pressures. > Wainwright > says that we are subjectively more fragile, and experience > pressures on time > and performance much more acutely than our parents' generation. > (Wainwright > gives an extensive explanation ...

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Date:	Sat May 12 14:27:45 PDT 2007