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From: Edward R Weick
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sweatshops
Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 5:57PM
Arthur:
Maybe I missed it, but have we adequately explored the creation of strong
trade unions in these countries, trade unions that are part of a movement
Ed,
At 17:57 16/04/00 -0400, you wrote:
(Arthur)
Maybe I missed it, but have we adequately explored the creation of strong
trade unions in these countries, trade unions that are part of a movement
aimed at upward harmonization of living standards??
cut to
(Ed)
We mustn't forget that unions
Interesting you should mention enclosure - just last night I was
bouncing some ideas off a local academic economist whilst our kids
were playing, as I've been mulling some thoughts (not developed them
beyond just mulling) along the lines of:
The likes of MicorSoft "enclose" cyberspace, i.e.
The Globe and Mail, Monday, April 17, 2000
Economist guru blasts system
Former World Bank insider Joseph Stiglitz says the international
financial setup is undemocratic and overly secretive
By Barrie McKenna
Washington -- Joseph Stiglitz, once a powerful World Bank insider, has
crossed the
Hm. I don't know, Ed
Sound exactly like the conditions in England in which the Grand National
Consolidated Union of the 1820s was created. Remember nine were
transported to Australia for their temerity - the Tolpuddle Martyrs. Don't
forget the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 either. This was a
The below is why The Fair World Project focuses on setting up co-operative
economics,
- rather than coercive (capitalist) economics.
With community banks and interest-free credit, this can be done.
e-hugs
john
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John McMurtry's recent book "The Cancer Stage of Capitalism" sheds a
great deal of light on this issue. Amazon.com will sell you a copy and
provide you with a thoughtful review by a member of this list.
Brian McAndrews
Mike, you are obviously a far better historian than I. Nevertheless, I
would still argue that there were possibilities implicit in western Europe
that are now not possible in much of the developing world. From what little
I've read of it, the industrial revolution led to tremendous upheavals,
Keith, in commenting on my response to Harry Pollard, wrote:
"This is a crude way of interpreting history."
I was not interpreting history. I was criticizing the idea of the use of
philosophy as a methodology of solving very immediate and practical
problems.
It is true that certain
Ed,
The more you describe what you believe to have been the situation
historically in Europe, the more I see parallels in contemporay East Asia,
India and Latin America. Tremendous technological change forcing
tremendous economic and social change, and, instead of the philosophes the
Modern
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