“Besser Leben! Das arbeitskritische Magazin” im Bürgerfunk Münster, u.a. mit Karl-Heinz Lewed und Ernst Lohoff

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After the fall of the New Economy, flexibility, individualization and outsourcing are obviously threats, not promises and mean nothing but poverty and precarious working conditions

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Jungle World 28/2004

Karl-Heinz Lewed

The ideologists of the modern service society do not paint the future this way: work pressure without security, exploitation in niche enterprises, contract work with obscure mediation agencies, low wages for service workers and personal agencies as a forced instrument of work administration. After the fall of the New Economy, flexibility, individualization and outsourcing are obviously threats, not promises and mean nothing for the majority but poverty and precarious working conditions. Employees in the poverty-service area are not the only ones affected by the massive lowering of social standards. As everybody knows, this tendency extends to the whole society in western metropolises. No one speaks any more of the periphery. In some employment segments, deregulation, low wages and precarization dominate as in the cleaning and catering trades, domestic servants or caring for seniors. Employing migrants in these areas under the most miserable conditions without any legal or contract security is not an accident.

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