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A quick addendum to my employment post on casualisation. We’ve noted before the cyclical change in the labour market as the economy swings from the hard productive forces of the mining boom to the soft and unproductive forces of the services economy:
The ‘bedpan economy’ as we like to call it, which requires a lot more of sheilas than it does dudes:
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.