Re: Higher Earnings That Aren't, continued

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Subject: Re: Higher Earnings That Aren't, continued
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 09:10:04 -0500

john gulick wrote:

>To what do you attribute rising service sector wages ? Netscape and Oracle
>yuppies getting rich ?

They're probably not included in the averages, since they cover
nonsupervisory workers only.

>Or renewed class struggle among janitors, health care
>workers, and so on ? There has to be some kind of class struggle explanation
>in here somewhere -- it can't be a complete supply and demand kind of thing
>(or at least so I hope).

The tightness or looseness of the labor market is a kind of passive class
struggle, no? It changes the balance of forces between K & L.

Doug

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- Re: Barrons on monthly effect, (continued)
  - Re: Barrons on monthly effect, Jay Hecht Tue 09 Dec 1997, 22:10 GMT
- Re: Higher Earnings That Aren't, continued, john gulick Mon 08 Dec 1997, 23:53 GMT
  - Re: Higher Earnings That Aren't, continued, Doug Henwood Tue 09 Dec 1997, 01:05 GMT
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