Workers-Control-Over-Prod
21st June 2012, 22:15
Since 1979, the Labor Productivity in the United States has increased 85%... but wages have been stagnant since then and workers work the same hours as in the year 1945.
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Annual Productivity Growth in non-farm Sectors
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Every year there is about 2% increase in Labor productivity; each year workers' produce an average of about 2% more goods in an hour. All that increase in wealth, but it does not go to them as their wages are stagnant and the amount of time they work remains the same.
In Germany, workers' productivity has increased a whooping 38% in the last 20 years, but german workers real wages per hour have been stagnant since the late 80's 90's and have in fact fallen in the last four years due to the crisis.
The take over of workers' parties needs to include a plan to cut working hours half as much as the productivity advances. That would mean that if labor productivity rose the average of capitalist nations' 2% in one year, workers would work 1% less and get 1% more every year.
The point is though that as machines increasingly replaced live exploitable labor, the profitability of those sectors fell, thus stagnating wages in all industrialised countries since decades.
http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/change-since-1979-600.gif
Annual Productivity Growth in non-farm Sectors
http://www.bls.gov/lpc/nfbbar.gif
Every year there is about 2% increase in Labor productivity; each year workers' produce an average of about 2% more goods in an hour. All that increase in wealth, but it does not go to them as their wages are stagnant and the amount of time they work remains the same.
In Germany, workers' productivity has increased a whooping 38% in the last 20 years, but german workers real wages per hour have been stagnant since the late 80's 90's and have in fact fallen in the last four years due to the crisis.
The take over of workers' parties needs to include a plan to cut working hours half as much as the productivity advances. That would mean that if labor productivity rose the average of capitalist nations' 2% in one year, workers would work 1% less and get 1% more every year.
The point is though that as machines increasingly replaced live exploitable labor, the profitability of those sectors fell, thus stagnating wages in all industrialised countries since decades.