Launch of MetroMOLA

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[SIZE=3]My original point was more about the way we see big companies and big charities operating in archaeology and whether it is fair to label them negatively in the way that many people do.

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Virtually all the charities were set up as the big fish in their ponds. They were set up well before private companies. They set the so called market price which it never was. At the same time they gave the major impression that archaeologists are charity workers and possibly worst of all attracted people who wanted to work in such an environment. (lets call them the legacy).

Right now we are ?hopefully? witnessing the collapse of the charity system. I do mean that with all respect to those who are losing their current jobs. But the charity units as the big units are far from over in the currently diminishing pond and archaeologists are far from over fighting for their status within any organisation private included. Unfortunately the charity units were the most outrageous in their exploitation of archaeologists and archaeology and set the standard which private units can only have undercut for work. If it was a level playing field an archaeologist would surely work for a charity unit because as it is not a profit making organisation all that lovely profit should have gone to the archaeologist because it would be a charity for the archaeologist but they didn?t. Who knows what it was wasted on. The great fat controllers pet projects or meetings with fellow service providers to discuss council business or national policy. Must be 15 years since I was at Exeter.