The question of the employment in China
Posté par ITgium le 8 décembre 2015
A jùn mǎ tale 俊 马 故事 (François de la Chevalerie)
At the university of Tianjin (天津大学), during a session of the Committee of the future, the topic once debated was the question of the employment, a difficult topic to deal with.
The Chairman of the committee, Professor Liu, asked me to give a trustworthy overview verbal account of the situation in France.
I said that I do not claim to have any real in-depth knowledge, just a bunch of ideas, suggested mostly by readings. By far, I am not an expert of the question. I have my own view on this, nothing more.
However, I remembered the excellent work of a long time friend, Professor Guillermo Farfan Mendoza, an outstanding social sciences professor at the University of Mexico, the UNAM, where he feeds currently his students with the late-breaking stories on the topic.
Late nineties, he published a university comprehensive report upon the division of work in many ways ahead of his time.
In a context of economic crisis, even more of technological breakthrough, how can we guarantee a decent well-paid job for everyone. ?
- Obliviously, the question is not that simple, Guillermo Farfan said. So many governments have failed to control the situation!
Then he added: “However, enhanced Work-Sharing Flexibility is helping to preserve jobs that otherwise might have been lost”.
At that time, I have transmitted his document to a representative of the Socialist Party.
It has been reported to me that Dominique Strauss Kahn, by then the French Ministry of Economy, read it conscientiously.
- I’d take it ! he stated after lecturing the document
Then comes the law mandating a 35-hour work weeks. This approach worked. The unemployment rate decreases significantly.
After my speech, then a very vigorous social debate was thus being conducted on the question in China. Here are some of the highlights :
- In China, said a scholar student, the unemployment rate would be in the order of 4%. Apparently everything sounds good. In reality, false jobs, unproductive or inadequate ones represent a substantial share, more than 30 %. If a work position doesn’t insert itself in a productivity chain, it is fictive, unreal.
- You consider the issue to each individual’s personal but that’s not the point in an organized society, interrupts the professor Liu. State liability and responsibility is that everyone has a role to play. Even the unskills workers, the lowest jobs, everyone must be involved in the process. The government purpose is simple not to leave anyone out !
- The government actions should aim to give everyone an opportunity, suggested professor Zhang. In this ideal society, I think everyone is complementary, each person does his or her job, .
- In addition to that, nobody is irreplaceable, said the Professor Liu. Convinced of the significance of this concept, no job should be overestimated. No job should be underestimated. Therefore, work-sharing is the main duty of all government!
- But there is a mismatch, exclaimed a student. In a country where a company named Alibaba accounts for some 18 % of the retail market with a work force of only 20 000 people, the question is posed with great acuity. That’s eliminated millions of locals job. How that’s be possible?
- It’s clearly a disruption, acknowledged the Professor Liu.
Then he looked at me and asked me.
- What do you think about the issue, Junma?
- The engine of unbridled capitalism, I stated, with its unfair system of thought, has reached the end of road and is unable to move. Sometimes, the ‘invisible hand’ of capitalism became the hand of a thief.
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