Half Lives: Why the Part-time Economy Is Bad for Everyone

[signalmankenneth]

http://www.alternet.org/print/labor/part-time-jobs-and-economy

 

[tekkychick]

Good article. Thanks for posting.

I like the conclusion:

We can decide to fund job training and support labor unions that are able to bargain for things like advanced notification of schedules and other protections. We can focus on job creation rather than misguided deficit reduction and austerity. We can support research on the effects, both social and economic, of increased involuntary part-time employment, and enact policies that discourage companies from shifting the burden of market fluctuations onto the backs of workers.

Or we can move increasingly to a paradigm of gross inequality, indentured servitude, monopolistic conditions, a decimated middle-class, increased poverty, and social unrest.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Yes, there is such a great demand for humanities degrees, it's a complete mystery why many of them are jobless or work at Walmart.