Sugarkane Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Most of the company I work at is just casuals. No one gets considered full time unless you're related to someone or create a sob story. My dad said this would've never happened when he was my age. When did the workforce get like this? Having many people being there for years and never even being made full time. Link to post Share on other sites
Radu Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 - women joined the workforce - manufacturing jobs went to 3rd world countries after the wall fell - the present financial crysis means there is an excedent of employees, how would you act as an employer ? Link to post Share on other sites
Identity Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 It is all an effort to reduce labor costs. The shareholders are sacred and the employees are merely expendable cogs in the wheel. Unless you are at the top of the chain expect to be paid peanuts for your efforts. Expect no job security whatsoever. Retirement fund / planning? Forget about those. The only thing you get is a fancy sounding title because it costs nothing. This has nothing to do with women joining the workforce. This has everything to do with employers trying to out-compete each other. They want to make their products as cheap as possible and that means lowering wages as much as possible. Radu blames women for employers doing the "rational" (capitalistic) thing. Only problem is of course that with declining real wages the markets for their products shrink since people will spend less money on said products. That is why insane borrowing was promoted to consumers. Enter 2008 ... Link to post Share on other sites
Radu Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 It's not a blame, it was a factor. There's an excedent of workers, of ppl who want jobs. It's basic supply and demand. Women joining the workforce increased the supply. In the last 2 decades much of the production was outsourced to 3rd world countries because the labour is much cheaper. Which created a lot of vacancies. When you have more workers than you need, when there are so many ppl wanting jobs and you can provide these jobs, you are in a position of power as an employer. The manufacturing jobs are not coming back. Some countries adapted to this, others haven't. Link to post Share on other sites
Radu Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 It's not a blame, it was a factor. There's an excedent of workers, of ppl who want jobs. It's basic supply and demand. Women joining the workforce increased the supply. In the last 2 decades much of the production was outsourced to 3rd world countries because the labour is much cheaper. Which created a lot of vacancies. When you have more workers than you need, when there are so many ppl wanting jobs and you can provide these jobs, you are in a position of power as an employer. The manufacturing jobs are not coming back. Some countries adapted to this, others haven't. Link to post Share on other sites
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