Comments on: Why is there no precarity discourse in the United States? http://precariousunderstanding.blogsome.com/2007/02/20/why-is-there-no-precarity-discourse-in-the-united-states/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:37:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Antonio http://precariousunderstanding.blogsome.com/2007/02/20/why-is-there-no-precarity-discourse-in-the-united-states/#comment-11 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:30:50 +0000 http://precariousunderstanding.blogsome.com/2007/02/20/why-is-there-no-precarity-discourse-in-the-united-states/#comment-11 Like you, (and thousands of workers of the X generation), i'm really interested on the precarious work. Yesteday, exactlly before go to bed, i asked "is the precarity a problem in the US?" I start thinking about, because i know a little bit the situation in Spain where i came from and Italy where i studied labour sciencies, and all my brain is full of european views of precarity. Marxism view of class is allways behind our approach to the work. Returning to my question, how can i compare Europe with the US. Unemployment taxes are lower in the US. But, is there high young unemployed like in europe, long term unemployment for people without eduaction or 20% of people work with certain contracts, 40% in Spain is temporary work. Talking about the wages, could be a good idea to speak about precarity. Here (in spain) there's a serious discusion on this point, people earning less than 1.000 euro per month "mileuristas" are called. And if you make a zoom a go behind the stadistical data of how many persons earn less of 1.000 euro you can find a big surprise: there're workers with very ey high education, skilled workers, most of them have a master education, and they are earning less than 1.000 euro per month. What do you thing? It's common in US, to find a person with university studies, high skilled working for a similar wage like in macdonalldwork? Is it the high education in your country a key to jump the precarity? Here no. I will be very happy if you can answer this, it will help me. Congratulations for your site. Mucha suerte Like you, (and thousands of workers of the X generation), i’m really interested on the precarious work.
Yesteday, exactlly before go to bed, i asked “is the precarity a problem in the US?” I start thinking about, because i know a little bit the situation in Spain where i came from and Italy where i studied labour sciencies, and all my brain is full of european views of precarity. Marxism view of class is allways behind our approach to the work. Returning to my question, how can i compare Europe with the US. Unemployment taxes are lower in the US. But, is there high young unemployed like in europe, long term unemployment for people without eduaction or 20% of people work with certain contracts, 40% in Spain is temporary work.

Talking about the wages, could be a good idea to speak about precarity. Here (in spain) there’s a serious discusion on this point, people earning less than 1.000 euro per month “mileuristas” are called. And if you make a zoom a go behind the stadistical data of how many persons earn less of 1.000 euro you can find a big surprise: there’re workers with very ey high education, skilled workers, most of them have a master education, and they are earning less than 1.000 euro per month. What do you thing? It’s common in US, to find a person with university studies, high skilled working for a similar wage like in macdonalldwork? Is it the high education in your country a key to jump the precarity? Here no.
I will be very happy if you can answer this, it will help me.
Congratulations for your site.
Mucha suerte

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