I've noticed that in white collar jobs there's also a terrible tendency for people who work part-time to be expected to produce as much as full-time staff and get paid less than half as much for it. It's hard to say to your boss that you won't do something because you've already worked your hours for that week, so you end up working really late or working from home to make it up. Line managers are much better at judging an appropriate amount of work for a full timer than for a part-timer.
I guess one way to get around this is more self-employment/piece rate type employment. If you were paid for some kind of output it would be easier to decide how much stuff you want to do given the rate it was paid for at. The problem with this is that it doesn't work with jobs where output is difficult to measure or collaborative.
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Date: 2009-03-02 06:30 pm (UTC)I guess one way to get around this is more self-employment/piece rate type employment. If you were paid for some kind of output it would be easier to decide how much stuff you want to do given the rate it was paid for at. The problem with this is that it doesn't work with jobs where output is difficult to measure or collaborative.