Word: casualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Living Wage Campaign does not object to the existence of the task force. We appreciate its focus on the situation of the "contingent workforce" of casual and sub-contracted employees. Furthermore, we look forward to any conclusions it might reach, since our own research committee has discovered the difficulty of attaining accurate and comprehensive labor statistics from Harvard. But we have insisted all along that the task force must decide how, not whether, to implement the living wage, and the provost made clear in our recent meeting that the task force has no such charge. We left the meeting cognizant...
...this issue, weaving together careful catch-phrases while avoiding the clear moral imperative of a living wage. Prominent in their argument is "total compensation"--the strange notion that workers should not demand a wage sufficient to live if they receive some package of benefits and time off. But most casual and subcontracted workers do not receive "total compensation" packages. Perhaps Harvard would do well to supplement a living wage with these packages, so its workers and their families could live well above the poverty line. Benefits and a living wage do not have to be mutually exclusive...
Wonder, which ought to be thought of as a special state of mind, is devalued vernacular currency today. Wonder Woman, the WonderBra, Wonder Bread and our casual use of the term "wonderful" all desensitize us to wonder's power. Wonder doesn't receive justice in our modern parlance...
...last just long enough to make you appreciate the hooks when they finally do snag hold. The Olivia Tremor Control, like their more normal friends Neutral Milk Hotel, manage to make a strange and beautiful album with enough complexity for the biggest music snob and enough fun for the casual listener...
...last just long enough to make you appreciate the hooks when they finally do snag hold. The Olivia Tremor Control, like their more normal friends Neutral Milk Hotel, manage to make a strange and beautiful album with enough complexity for the biggest music snob and enough fun for the casual listener. R. Adam Lauridsen