[PEN-L:6050] Re: Brad De Long on working hours

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad writes: >That I should limit my statements to the "core" in a
core-periphery model.

>Increases in demand for the products made in the periphery do often
generate a substantial increase in hours of work and intensity of
supervision: in the context of the U.S. south, no British cotton mill would
have meant shorter workdays (and less "supervision," less whipping) for
American slaves. It's expensive to brutally exploit your workforce (rather
than turn them into sharecroppers or serfs), and bosses and owners often
find it worth doing only if demand from the industrial core is strong...<

Wasn't the original J. St. Mill's quote about the introduction of machinery
not helping the people at the bottom of the division of labor? if so, we
have to recognize that the division of labor is global.

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