MetaFilter posts tagged with Economy and employment

Susan Hires A Boss

ShawnStruck — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:30:51 -0800

Susan is currently looking for work. But in this case, instead of asking someone to hire her, Susan is looking to hire a boss. If you're a boss interested in this opportunity, you can apply here.

bakesales! lemonade stands!

luser — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:21:46 -0800

Dick Cheney claims that disappointing jobs numbers are undercounting ebay power sellers. The man is on a tear!

Tax Man

Postroad — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:16:54 -0800

Tax Man Bush says tax cuts stimulate the economy. Unfortunately, he's fallen more than 2.2 million jobs short of the projection made by his own economists.

Good news for 308,000 American citizens and one President.

msacheson — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:45:13 -0800

U.S. job growth strongest in 4 years in March. Non-farm payrolls climbed 308,000 in March, the Labor Department said, the biggest gain since April 2000. However, the unemployment rate actually ticked upward from 5.6%, the two-year low seen in January and February, to 5.7% in March. Note in passing that this took place during the Bush administration!

Cyberclass Consciousness

hairyeyeball — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:28:27 -0800

10% of American tech sector jobs will move offshore by the end of the year. Cyber-Marx (1999):

"... globalisation has given some knowledge workers, largely male, largely white, associated with high tech, finance, communication and information an exceptional importance. Concentrated in the technopoles that form the hubs of "global webs," these constitute a layer of privileged labour on whose loyalty capital can largely rely. But analysis that sees "symbolic analysts" as the crucial actors in globalisation does not grasp the speed with which capital turfs yuppies from the lifeboat when cheaper replacements can be found. Even symbolic analysts feel the blast of globalisation, as North American computer programmers are undercut by Lithuanian or Indian competition, and architects, engineers and professors discover that those who can telecommute can always be teleterminated by cheaper services uploaded from anywhere on the planet.

True? What effect will this trend have on the digerati as a class, do you think?

Report on layoffs killed

four panels — Sat, 04 Jan 2003 16:41:43 -0800

Shooting the messenger. "The Bush administration, under fire for its handling of the economy, has quietly killed off a Labor Department program that tracked mass layoffs by U.S. companies." (via madamjujujive)

capt.crackpipe — Thu, 15 Feb 2001 23:00:48 -0800

The Layoff Binge The last piece on the page gives a worker’s perspective on the recent attack in the Class War.