"It also suggests that the career path that defined the white-collar worker for generations — from the cubicle to the corner office, or even from the steno pool to the walk down the aisle — is coming to a close, and that a new sort of work, as yet unformed, is taking its place".
The union-organised March for the Alternative demonstration in 2011 was the biggest workers' protest for generations, and in the same year they co-ordinated the largest wave of industrial action since the 1926 general strike.
The longest fall in workers' wages for generations has played a key role, of course; and as the Resolution Foundation has pointed out, unless Britain's dire productivity levels increase, current increases in wages will stall.
WSR codes contain provisions designed to get at longstanding abuses that only workers could know, the forms of exploitation and humiliation unique to each particular industry that workers have experienced for generations, but no outside "expert" could ever divine.
"Unskilled workers are condemned for generations to low wages," Mr. Xiao said.
Why has no one mentioned the idea that having illegal workers living here for generations with no access to healthcare — and more importantly — higher education, results in what is basically a "slave population"?
He and the 2,500 other workers here at the New Jersey International and Bulk Mail Center — the largest of 21 such facilities across the country — made the same bargain American workers have made for generations when signing on with the post office: no great riches, but bedrock stability with an employer that has never laid off a worker.
Another challenge for designers of the future office is catering for workers from four generations, Millennials, Generations X and Y, and Baby Boomers in senior management.
In that "order," the steady pursuit of trickle-down economics left wages stagnant for the mass and generality of workers for an entire generation, obliging working families to maintain or increase their standard of life only by extending the length of the working day, by sending every available member of the family out to paid work, and by taking on higher and higher levels of personal debt.
"A majority of the people fleeing Ivory Coast are foreigners who are migrant workers, some of them for generations, as they have been specifically targeted for violence and abuse," said Cristina Ruiz, Christian Aid's west Africa regional emergency manager.
