Comments on: Ain't no cure for the summertime blues http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/07/aint-no-cure-for-the-summertime-blues/ Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rob http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/07/aint-no-cure-for-the-summertime-blues/#comment-48375 Rob Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:20:25 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=10101#comment-48375 From the article: "In the mid-aughts, people of all ages were being entitled and demanding of their employers … because they could be." So, Ms Grose is arguing that the "mid-aughts" were fat, happy years for job seekers? Where jobs were "abundant"? Interesting. My memories from that period are mostly about news stories telling us that the recovery (from the 1999-2000 downturn) was really "jobless" and that "real working people" were worse off than ever. Let's take a look at the wayback machine... Here, for example, is a link to a book from 2005, called "Jobless Recovery": http://www.amazon.com/Jobless-Recovery-L-C-Evans/dp/1595261575 Here is a link to an article from 2006 arguing that a "jobless recovery" is not really a recovery: http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2006/01/jobless-recovery-is-not-recovery-part.html Here's a story from early 2005, "Jobless recovery begets wageless recovery": http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/webfeatures_snapshots_20050119/ There are lots and lots more where these came from, Google it yourself. So, no, "because they could" was certainly not the judgment of the time... From the article: “In the mid-aughts, people of all ages were being entitled and demanding of their employers … because they could be.”

So, Ms Grose is arguing that the “mid-aughts” were fat, happy years for job seekers? Where jobs were “abundant”? Interesting. My memories from that period are mostly about news stories telling us that the recovery (from the 1999-2000 downturn) was really “jobless” and that “real working people” were worse off than ever. Let’s take a look at the wayback machine…

Here, for example, is a link to a book from 2005, called “Jobless Recovery”:

http://www.amazon.com/Jobless-Recovery-L-C-Evans/dp/1595261575

Here is a link to an article from 2006 arguing that a “jobless recovery” is not really a recovery:

http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2006/01/jobless-recovery-is-not-recovery-part.html

Here’s a story from early 2005, “Jobless recovery begets wageless recovery”:

http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/webfeatures_snapshots_20050119/

There are lots and lots more where these came from, Google it yourself.

So, no, “because they could” was certainly not the judgment of the time…

]]> By: Nels http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/07/aint-no-cure-for-the-summertime-blues/#comment-48374 Nels Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:43:46 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=10101#comment-48374 How about low-paying summer jobs, like the ones I used to have? How about low-paying summer jobs, like the ones I used to have?

]]> By: bandit http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/07/aint-no-cure-for-the-summertime-blues/#comment-48373 bandit Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:22:56 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=10101#comment-48373 The great part in Cloverfield was when all the Real World wannabes tried to escape lower Manhattan by running across the Brooklyn Bridge but then the monster flipped the bridge. Not that I'm not sympathetic to all these poor private college kids who can't find a summer internship at a publishing house or the one who actually had to get a job at the amusement park but how do they think other kids put themselves thru college. The great part in Cloverfield was when all the Real World wannabes tried to escape lower Manhattan by running across the Brooklyn Bridge but then the monster flipped the bridge. Not that I’m not sympathetic to all these poor private college kids who can’t find a summer internship at a publishing house or the one who actually had to get a job at the amusement park but how do they think other kids put themselves thru college.

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