25th June 2013, 12:29 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I think its a misguided concept... at present there are possibly less digging archaeologists working than at any time in the past 20 years. The 'rarity' of that resource hardly seems to have pushed up the wages. If anything it has depressed the wage market even further, as no doubt some employers would claim that if the current crop of employed got too stroppy, they could dial up another batch of wannabees without much difficulty.......
I agree.
In the grander scheme of things, we don't dictate the price that the 'clients' pay us.
The client controls this with the threat of going to someone cheaper.
A bit like supermarkets dictating the buying price of milk.
The only ways of stopping this is illegal price fixing
or
Stronger legislation, quality control including hefty fines for destroying archaeology (including not excavating/recording and publishing it properly) and accreditation of companies.