From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@DCS.GLA.AC.UK)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 07:22:28 EST
Valle has the paper 'National Differences in Average Wages" on his web page http://usuarios.lycos.es/vallebaeza/id2.htm It addresses these issues. -----Original Message----- From: OPE-L [mailto:OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarembka Sent: 07 January 2004 18:06 To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: Labour aristocracy --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. *********************************************************************** RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Paul Zarembka, editor, Elsevier Science ******************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka
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