A Return to Yeomanry.
As the global economic crisis forces everybody to downsize, the self-sufficient worker once more has a chance, whether as a farmer growing produce for local consumption or as an open-source software developer who works in his basement office. Many of the world's citizens are already being thrown ba...
| Publicado en: | Foreign Policy no. 173; pp. 29 - 30 |
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Foreign Policy
July/August 2009
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| Sumario: | As the global economic crisis forces everybody to downsize, the self-sufficient worker once more has a chance, whether as a farmer growing produce for local consumption or as an open-source software developer who works in his basement office. Many of the world's citizens are already being thrown back toward some kind of yeomanry in the absence of any attractive alternative. Furthermore, with the fall of communism and union power, employers worldwide no longer feel compelled to provide lifetime employment with generous benefits to forestall a revolution. |
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