28th April 2010, 01:23 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:...........I now think the way to control archaeology (standards and ethics), to improve terms and conditions of employment and to put a brake on the number of professional practitioners of archaeology is to franchise a limited number of archaeological undertakings. These undertakings will work within a fixed price set-up for the type of work they offer, will offer a national fixed scale of payments for archaeological work (be it wages or fess) and will work either within a fixed geographic area or to a specific archaeological specialism or specialisms.......
Hmm, isn't that illegal? Price fixing and all that? Not sur I understand you here.
'Limited number of undertakings?' If mitigation of the impact of construction to the archaeological record isn't built into the planning regs lots of 'unknown' archaeological remains will be destroyed.
'Fixed price set up?' How can you fix the price of the unknown in a competative market?
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