#fullemployment

since it seems impossible to have this conversation without making a manpower argument, I ought to point out that re-orienting new unpaid archival interns every 12 weeks is probably a larger drain on professional archivists than, say, orienting and training entry-level paraprofessionals for permanent jobs or longterm projects would be

it really is astonishing that we can somehow have a surplus of unpaid archival labor and still have this volume of backlog! by astonishing I mean, fake. it’s fake

I mean the actual solution would be: destroy no documents, full processing employment

In celebrating #womenshistorymonth the Collëctive acknowledges Sadie Alexander. Given the lessons of the earlier post-war period, Alexander favored #government taking an active role in the economy when there were shortfalls in production. In order to have a fully employed labor force with 60 million jobs in the post-war period, Alexander believed that the country should study the factors that generated wartime #fullemployment, going from 45 million to 55 million workers from 1939-1945. The factors she believed created the 10 million additional jobs were the: 1) pressing need for goods, 2) availability of resources for production, 3) determination to use all available resources, and 4) government planning and controls on prices and labor supply. #BettermentThroughAppliedKnowledge #datascience #staightfacts https://www.instagram.com/p/BvKyLlsB1YJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ckmryp1l881y