Let's Hear It for the Experts!

They had this “expert” on the radio the other day named Ilana Gershon. She's written a book called Down & Out in the New Economy: How People Find (Or Don’t Find) Work Today. She went on at great length about the “Neoliberals” and “Quitting Economy.”
That’s Gershon’s term for the work world, where the minute you land a job, you are already looking for another because you can pretty well count on being downsized or fired, so you need to be constantly on the prowl, networking, marketing, etc.
That certainly describes how workers must function in this economy. Ms. Gershon laid blame on the doorstep of the “Neolibs.” Oh, and she’s a college prof at Indiana U.
The real reason businesses can get, or more precisely refuse to give workers what they need is they have surfeit of them. In fact, 2 billion additional people on the planet, a lot of whom can get on a plane and go anywhere. Come here if they want.
According to the media, we are almost at full employment and salaries should be going up. Wonder of wonders, they never budge. Jobs just get more demanding, less secure and scarcer.

Any critical eye can see it is the world birthrate, immigration and technology (robots and computers doing more work) that configure the work world and blaming anybody (Who are Neolibs, anyway?) else is not very smart for a college prof.