…opponents of mechanization or advocates of short-time working, a reasoning they label as a misconception and which we know today under the label ‘lump of labor’ fallacy ‘. But the…

…and rather disagreeable circumstances, what is it, then? Consider the idea of labor-power as a common-pool resource. Labor-power can be distinguished from labor as the mental and physical capacity to…

…labor market. Given the unusually large swings in the labor market since the pandemic began, it is important to maintain that comparison when evaluating current labor market conditions. That is…

…much of the Labor cost and the Overhead cost associated with Labor (which is greater than Labor cost). Spencer England and I would go back and forth on the topic…

…demand theory.“ The term appears elsewhere only in a few sources: a dictionary entry on the lump-of-labor theory in What’s What in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and…

…also criticizes induced labor by pointing to a randomized controlled trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, that showed women with low-risk pregnancies who had labor induced at…

Labeling for Increased Profits, Farmer and Economist, Michael Smith It is a well-known marketing ploy to label, relabel, and even mislabel a product again and again to increase sales. We…

…has been flexicurity, an approach inspired by policy in Denmark. It combines having a flexible labor market on both sides, free hiring and firing with strong labor organizing, and a…

Crowding Out and the Social Overhead Costs of Labor Another strange twist in the convoluted lump-of-labor saga. Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor refuted the “Treasury View” — aka “crowding out” —…

…with child labor. Even before the rise of child labor “protagonism”, that opposes efforts to eliminate child labor in the name of respecting children’s agency and opposing eurocentrism, I encountered…