3rd September 2008, 09:29 PM
Can't believe I am about to do this....discuss Marxist theory of Value, Price and Profit with Peter Wardle....but in for a penny....
My objection to 'archaeology' making 'profits' is based upon the classic Marxist analysis of Value, Price and Profit. That is that a worker is recompensed for only part of his working day, the unpaid part equalling the so-called 'profit' retained by his or her employer.
Whilst archaeological wages are so low (currently running at between 13 and 53% below IFA-compared posts in other industries) making a profit from the labour of archaeologists whilst refusing to pay them a decent wage or grant them decent terms and conditions of service is immoral.
And before anyone gets too much on my back, can I state that if archaeologists were paid a decent wage, with decent terms and conditions and with an effective career structure [u]and</u> archaeological companies were able to show a surplus, I would wholeheartedly embrace profiteering.
Ref: http://libcom.org/library/value-price-an...-karl-marx
My objection to 'archaeology' making 'profits' is based upon the classic Marxist analysis of Value, Price and Profit. That is that a worker is recompensed for only part of his working day, the unpaid part equalling the so-called 'profit' retained by his or her employer.
Whilst archaeological wages are so low (currently running at between 13 and 53% below IFA-compared posts in other industries) making a profit from the labour of archaeologists whilst refusing to pay them a decent wage or grant them decent terms and conditions of service is immoral.
And before anyone gets too much on my back, can I state that if archaeologists were paid a decent wage, with decent terms and conditions and with an effective career structure [u]and</u> archaeological companies were able to show a surplus, I would wholeheartedly embrace profiteering.
Ref: http://libcom.org/library/value-price-an...-karl-marx