Hamburg, Germany: Mia fries wakes up every morning at 6 a.m. and practices her yoga. If the children are already awake her husband must make the breakfast - if he is around. Benno Fries worked for six years as a lecturer at the university. There he had only temporary contracts. The longest one was for a year. More than half of his working hours he had to spend on applications for research funds for his next temporary contract. After six years he had had enough. During his studies he had jobbed as a truck driver. Now he has started doing that again. That is hard on his wife Mia. Previously Benno could always take the 3 year old Maja to the Kindergarten, and the 7 year old Frieder to school. Mia has be at work at 8 a.m. at the private Asklepios Clinic in St Georg/Hamburg. She is a medical doctor.
Article Index
- Themes
- Where does this come from?
- Flexible labour in flexible production
- „Fair Living Wages“
- Somewhere the work is even cheaper
- Temporary – the protagonist family
- “Sleeping is done only at the end of the month”
- If you fail you have only yourself to blame
- Modern day slaves
- Others have managed to make it …
- A visit to Oxfam
- An Epidemic of psychological complaints
- The marketable clinic
- The consequences of unilateral deregulation
- The ruinous competition of the export champions
- I have delivered
- Marketable employees soon in France too?
- Solidarity instead of competition
- New social models in the age of flexible work
- New social models in the age of flexible work
- Epilogue
- All Pages
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