A US Recovery for Who? The Real News Network go to original August 19, 2009
Worker productivity figures shoot up, with no gains in employment or wages to show for it
Newly released figures of the Department of Labor show that productivity has sharply increased in the second quarter of 2009 but employers' labor costs have plummeted. To analyze these numbers, The Real News spoke to Richard D. Wolff, economist at the New School in New York City, who speaks on whether these numbers are good for workers. Bio: Richard D. Wolff is an Economist, Author, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and New School University. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne). He has authored or co-authored 10 books including The Economics of Colonialism, Bringing It All Back Home: Class, Gender and Power in the Modern Household, and Rethinking Marxism. His recent work has concentrated on analyzing the causes and alternative solutions to the current global economic crisis.
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