Re: Labour aristocracy

From: Paul Cockshott (clyder@GN.APC.ORG)
Date: Wed Jan 07 2004 - 17:53:11 EST


I dont have explicit evidence of my own, but am recalling
conversations that I had with Valle on this around 1995 when
he told me of his research into this.

Paul Zarembka wrote:
>
> --On Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:25 PM +0000 paul cockshott
> <clyder@GN.APC.ORG> wrote:
>
> > The factories that
> > you take as examples are probably unrepresentative of the general
> > productivity in the Mexican economy which will in tend to be
> > substantially lower than in these factories.
>
> Paul C.
>
> What's your evidence?  I offered mine.
>
> > It is quite plausible that across the economy as a whole
> > the labour productivity may be only 1/5th of the US level.
>
> I don't know evidence for such an assertion (let alone 1/20th).
>
> Paul Z.
>
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