madengr
07-29-2011, 04:05 PM
Like "manufacturing" hamburgers, the BLS has been fudging numbers on "green" jobs:
http://machinedesign.com/article/the-green-job-conundrum-0707
Does someone you know sweep floors or clean toilets for a living? If so, they may be holding down a “green energy job.”
This idea might sound odd until you understand there is no universally accepted definition of a job that is environmentally “green.” If you are talking about a job in the eyes of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, our example above could well be true. The BLS bases its assessments of a “green” job on “the good or service produced or the production process used” and not on the skills of the people in the plant. So someone providing janitorial services in an LED light-bulb factory has a green job as far as the BLS is concerned....
http://machinedesign.com/article/the-green-job-conundrum-0707
Does someone you know sweep floors or clean toilets for a living? If so, they may be holding down a “green energy job.”
This idea might sound odd until you understand there is no universally accepted definition of a job that is environmentally “green.” If you are talking about a job in the eyes of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, our example above could well be true. The BLS bases its assessments of a “green” job on “the good or service produced or the production process used” and not on the skills of the people in the plant. So someone providing janitorial services in an LED light-bulb factory has a green job as far as the BLS is concerned....