Dear Mr Cohen,
I just found out about your company's exciting new Hygiene Guard{tm}
system through the admittedly somewhat biased means reproduced below.
Gosh, I certainly hope that you don't offend against common sense in
your spare time by worrying about a fascist takeover of this country.
In reference to Maggie's question about the role of intellectuals
during past periods of popular insurgency in American history, it may
be useful to apply Gramsci's notion of the organic intellectual.
While professional intellectuals may be relatively thin on the ground
(and this is to be
On Mon, June 9, 1997 at 08:24:38 (-0700) Doug Henwood writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most unions were formed when people were working six
days a week, 10-12 hours a day.
This is an interesting point. Joel Rogers explains the marketing-inspired
nature of the New Party's platform and
At 02:05 PM 6/4/97 -0700, Colin Danby wrote:
We all eagerly await the pen-l postings of Wojtek's cat. The cat
(what is its name?) might first want to peruse the archives of a
discussion on postmodernism that took place on this list three
years ago. A main archive can be found at:
William S. Lear wrote:
Just curious, what is the average/median work week in the U.S. today?
According to the BLS, average annual (paid) workhours were:
men women
1975 1,805 1,293
1993 1,905 1,526
So, dividing by 50, we get 38.1 and 30.5 respectively (for 1993).
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most unions were formed when people were working six
days a week, 10-12 hours a day.
This is an interesting point. Joel Rogers explains the marketing-inspired
nature of the New Party's platform and organizational
Michael Perelman wrote:
...wartime finance started to hurt the stock market.
When? For how long?
Edwin Dickens
Maggie --
I suspected we may have been talking at cross purposes, I just have these
instincts sometimes to be knit-pickingly clear sometimes. :| Your point
is well taken, and my only thought in response to your comments is to
perhaps state the obvious: People usually believe in change, they
Forwarded message:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 8 22:05 PDT 1997
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 00:57:04 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Bob Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MAI Giants
Content-Type: text/plain;
KARL CARLILE: A general election in the Irish republic has just
taken place. The outcome has been a hung Dail with no party or
combination of parties gaining an outright majority. The third and
fourth largest parties experienced a collapse in their vote each
respectively is respectively on the
-Only 20% of women have full-time, full-year jobs which pay more than
$30,000 per year, compared to 40% of men.
-Canada has the second highest incidence of low-paid employment for women
(34.3%) among all industrialized (OECD) countries. Only Japan (37.2%)
was worse.
It would have been in '64. The stock market experienced "peace rallies"
every time the war looked like it was winding down. Johnson, as you
well know, was financing the war with deficit spending, so interest
rates were high -- causing the first SL crisis.
DICKENS, EDWIN (201)-408-3024 wrote:
The Forum is also active in the Denver area. A number of faculty members
at the University of Colorado regularly attend sessions and occasionally
recruit some of their graduate students. My girlfriend was one such
unfortunate recruit and spent a weekend being told essentially that her
Mexican colleagues are working on reforming Mexican bankruptcy law. They
are particularly interested in any developments U.S. bankruptcy made during
the Great Depression in the United States.
Please send any information that would help to Laura Grund
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fax:
I will use a simple example. Everybody and her sister is jumping on the
'micro-credit' bandwagon. In the abstract it sounds good. In the concrete
Speaking of microcredit, everybody should rush out and buy the latest copy
of Left Business Observer for the fabulous expose of this sleazy campaign
Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Sam Lanfranco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: A Checklist for Effective Campaigning
PREFACE from LABOR-L listmanagement. The following is an excellent
checklist and should be glued to the coffee/lunch space wall in every
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 97-06-08 16:08:52 EDT, you write:
Second, I think it partly has to do with various types of complacency.
In the case of the reproductive rghts movement, I remember how the
movement groups sort of re-oriented toward issues of
1. the cause and effect link is already inferred in the description of the
reform: _redistributing_ work and work time.
2. in a private message, I referred him to a rough calculation (based in
part on econometric studies done for the Government of Canada by Mike
McCracken of Econometrica)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rudy G in a speech to the National Press Club (NPR broadcast on 6/1/97, 8 pm
WNYC) claimed that the Unemployment Rate was declining because ex-welfare
recipients were entering the workforce.
I suspect that people on welfare are not included in the Census HH survey
Doug,
Rudy G in a speech to the National Press Club (NPR broadcast on 6/1/97, 8 pm
WNYC) claimed that the Unemployment Rate was declining because ex-welfare
recipients were entering the workforce.
I suspect that people on welfare are not included in the Census HH survey
(probably due to lack of
Shawgi,
I'm sorry I have to decline to carry on a point by point discussion with you
ad infinitum. Perhaps you will notice that I've also been challenged by
Colin Danby to defend my views. Although your objections and Colin's may
differ, I simply do not have the time to address each and every
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most unions were formed when people were working six
days a week, 10-12 hours a day.
This is an interesting point. Joel Rogers explains the marketing-inspired
nature of the New Party's platform and organizational stragegy ("pick a few
simple points, four or five, stay
Colin Danby wrote,
My effort in this exchange, which was clearly wasted, was to draw out a
cause-and-effect link between shortening the working day and other
things like reducing unemployment. . .
- snip -
. . .For what it's worth Tom's charges of insincerity
on my part are misplaced. . .
-
Greetings,
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Tom Walker wrote:
Shawgi Tell wrote,
Serious social problems cannot be solved if the people are
not in power, if they do not have a real and decisive say in the direction
of society, if they remain disempowered, if they lack sovereignty, if they
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE THIRD SECTOR TO CULTURAL CHANGE
IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Call for Proposals
for a panel session at the 3rd International Conference of the
International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR)
in Geneva, Switzerland, July 8-11, 1998.
This session will be
KARL CARLILE: Hi Tom!
TOM: In closing, I'd like to reiterate that the call for limiting the working day
is not based on economic theory, it is based on an historical argument. That
historical argument includes a critique of political economy that is useful
in showing the mendacity of "economic"
MAGGIE: Finally, what I was trying to point out is that huge
movements have been formed and succeeded in just the situations you
are saying which make organizing difficult. Most unions were formed
when people were working six days a week, 10-12 hours a day.
KARL: There is nothing significant
Let's simply turn to the end of Tom's latest post, which is the clearest
response to my request for the link between reform and result:
I
believe that a coherent program of work time redistribution would
substantially reduce unemployment and social inequality. And I believe these
two
28 matches
Mail list logo
