Magic realism or fantasy in one form or another has been a factor in most
John Sayles films. The most obvious example was "Brother From Another
Planet." It would be possible to bypass its role in "Men with Guns", but I
think that would be a mistake. The device of the mother telling the story
to
There are a few sources for information on these events that have not
so far been mentioned.
James Gross (Cornell labor historian) has written a multi-volume history
of the NLRA and NLRB.
Jim Pope (Rutgers Law school) is currently doing an analysis of s.7(a).
And related but slightly off
Thank you for your support. We have received nearly a thousand
endorsements. Based on these we have put our a press release and expect
coverage on this situation. We have also sent the material to the
congressional representatives who attended and called the Town Hall
meeting at which Kate
We have had an enormous outpouring of support for Dr. Bronfenbrenner. At
this point, we don't need further endorsements. We will be going to the
media today (Wednesday, February 23, 1998) with the petition and the
hundreds of endorsements.
We will try to provide updates as newsworthy events
We urge our colleagues to join with us in protesting Beverly
Enterprises' attack on Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner's academic freedom
and first amendment rights.
Michal Belknap, Professor of Law, California Western School of
Law
Clete Daniel, Professor of American Labor
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
I got a flyer in yesterday's mail announcing a series of seminars on "How
To Stay Union-Free into the 21st Century" (printed with "UNION FREE" in red
in what looks like 96- or 100-point type, in contrast with the rest of the
phrase, which was merely
A visit to Cahokia (across the river from St. Louis) is fascinating in and
of itself and also for the evidence it provides that the large number of
residents there overused the local resources, which then led to its
decline. There may have been other factors, such as climate, but the
decline took
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Louis Proyect wrote:
* * * I have to confess that the discussion about "technology" sort
of baffles me since it seems detached from the broader question of how
society is organized.
There is no question that automation of blue-collar and white-collar work
has led to
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Tom Walker wrote:
Ellen Dannin wrote,
Suppose you were an employer whose employees were represented by a
union. Now suppose that the labor laws you bargain under state that
when the parties reach an impasse, you, the employer, get to impose
your final offer. What
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, James Devine wrote:
* * *
Lately, I've been wondering about the social-psychological basis of these
claims of "superiority." Why make this kind of outrageous claim at all? Is
it because we're working at a liberal arts college and have to rub shoulders
with all sorts of
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
Continuing a discussion from several months ago, the opening of a BLS news
release published today. The full text is on the BLS web site at
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.toc.htm.
I welcome discussion as to what it all means.
Doug
Doug,
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
It's magic: lower incomes + higher labour force participation = a lower rate
of unemployment. This precisely confirms the right-wing nostrum that there
is no such thing as involuntary unemployment. At a low enough wage, there is
a job for everyone who
Symposium on the New Zealand Employment Contracts Act
The California Western International Law Journal is publishing a
special symposium issue that will explore the impact of the New
Zealand Employment Contracts Act of 1991 (ECA) on labor relations
both in New Zealand and abroad. The
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, William S. Lear wrote:
Can anyone fill me in on the origins of the term "wage slavery"?
I can't fill you in on its origins, but there is a great example of the
comparisons you made in the 1960's movie "Burn" or "Quemado" starring a
thin Marlon Brando with a British
The now defunct labor research review out of Chicago has done several
research volumes on the topic. These are usually written by union
activists, so they present a more hands-on approach.
If you wanted to talk to people deeply involved in this work, contact the
Support Committee for Maquiladora
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, James Devine wrote:
Doug reports poll results: half of "American Indians" called themselves
that, 37% "Native American";
My wife has worked a lot with the "Native community." She finds that most of
them call themselves "American Indians," thinking that "Native
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, tom wood wrote:
Richard Duchesne wrote:
What about pre-linguistic mental capacities, say in the first two
years of a child? This is possible, but should we call that
"thinking"?
Are you saying learning is possible without thinking?
I wanted to wade in just to the
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:
James Devine wrote:
Michael Perelman asks if labor has ever been so weak with such low
unemployment rates ("tight" labor markets). I'd say yes. The 1920s was a
period of labor weakness, but low U rates:
Jim D. correctly notes that union
One thing that seems to be affecting union power and thus the
attractiveness of unions to members has been the expansion of the legal
doctrine which allows employers to implement their final offers upon
reaching impasse. Beginning in the mid-1980's the NLRB became
increasingly willing to find
One excellent film on the globalisation of labor is "The Emperor's New
Clothes" from the Canadian Film Board. Its main focus is NAFTA, viewed on
many levels, concluding with a visit by Canadian auto workers to a
Mexican plant where the work Canadians did is now being done. This is a
very
Today's Los Angeles Times has a long piece criticizing NZ's reading
methodology -- whole language v. phonics. The article says that employers
are complaining that they can't get literate workers.
Periodically groups like the NZ Business Roundtable have
advocated privatizing public education
I wanted to add some thoughts on the legal issues involved to this
discussion on externalities and how they are or are not taken into
consideration.
In order to bring a case, one must have "standing." Standing is a
constitutional requirement, and it is also a difficult status to define.
One has
March 15, 1997
Final Call for Proposals
The International Law Journal of California Western School of Law
is dedicating its Fall 1997 issue to a symposium dedicated to
discussing New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act, 1991. Persons
interested in participating in the symposium are invited to
e are ways the legislation can address each of these problems, but it
may be that the eventual law will not be drafted in a way that makes the
unionists' lives easier.
Ellen Dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
January 26, 1997
Call for Proposals
The International Law Journal of California Western School of Law
is dedicating its Fall 1997 issue to a symposium dedicated to
discussing New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act, 1991. Persons
interested in participating in the symposium are invited to
submit
At least some who have commented on this (sympathetically) in the California
newspapers have said it was being used as a way to get additional funding
-- available for teaching students whose primary language is not English --
for these schools.
Ellen J. Dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perception in this area is fairly important. There have been lately a
number of stories in the papers about how fearful people are as a result
of their own or others' experiences with downsizing and/or being made
contingent. Some say they are happy to have been cut free of an employer
and to
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:
At 5:41 PM 11/9/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I interpret the massive attack on affirmative action in
California as part of the "angry White male" phenomenon.
Obviously, but one complicating point: according to the LA Times exit poll,
48% of women
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Terrence Mc Donough wrote:
Collective bargaining type models don't work well in progressive
org's because the org shouldn't be using its powerful position as an
employer in the bargaining process. Similarly, the social
consciousness and personalized relationships of
I am doing some work focussed more on legal and labor issues connected
with privatization and subcontracting of government services. Have any of
you on this list been doing anything on the issue or are you aware of any
recent studies, particularly those looking at the economics of
It seems to me that you might want to put in at least some reference to
the Fed's NAIRU policy -- i.e. it is the government and its policies that
have impoverished so many. These are the casualties of a war on
inflation. The government has been demanding that some 6% of us remain
unemployed
A few days ago Thomas Murakami forwarded an edited piece of information
about AIRAANZ to this list. Maggie Coleman asked what AIRAANZ is, and I
answered her offlist. AIRAANZ has been around for quite awhile, long
before Clive set foot in the antipodes. It sponsors annual conferences
of
One of my colleagues's husbands is a psychiatrist. An HMO with which he
is associated was purchased by a drug manufacturer which also makes
anti-depressants. One of the administrative people there called Dr. X
and told him that they had reviewed the dosages he was prescribing for
his
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In Shniad's interesting post on NZ we find the following:
The ethos of the market pervaded everyday life. Even
the language was captured, dehumanizing the people
and communities it affected. It became acceptable to
talk of "shedding workers,"
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Hugo Radice wrote:
I was recently at a workshop in Budapest on foreign direct investment
in the Visegrad countries (btw, that's Hungary, Poland, Slovakia,
Czech Rep], and to my surprise one of the papers was on "The role of
FDI in structural change: the lessons from
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, bill mitchell wrote:
* * *
the swish pamphlet paints a very pessimistic outlook for the NZ economy in
terms of low investment, low productivity and declining export prospects. In
other words, while the usual criticisms of the reforms were in terms of equity
and social
I'm curious whether the suggestion that social security be privatized is
not the first step to abolishing it. At the present time, the wealthier
people in this country already have little to gain or lose from whatever
happens to social security. Private pensions have made social security
Here's a few thoughts. Legislatively overturn S.Ct. cases which say that
corporations are persons entitled to 14th amendment protections. Require
that all corporation enabling laws require that corporations operate in
the public interest. Then define the public interest as something more
I don't know how economics courses are taught these days, but one method
of teaching some of use, I notice especially in the labor field, is
problems and simulations. The students get into the role play and seem
to learn their labor law much better than a more traditional walk
through,
I was asked to forward this message to this list.
ejd
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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 07:40:47 +1300
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: EJROT (pronounced "Edge-Rot")
The Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory (EJROT) launched
its first edition last year.
On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Breen, Nancy wrote:
* * *
I heard Sec. Reich on the Diane Rehm's (DC radio talk) show the other day.
He was discussing some suggestions to provide economic incentives for
corportations to be more socially responsible -- mostly through tax reforms.
This is an area
Thank you to the many of you who responded with clear explanations of the
budget. I passed them on and received many thanks to be conveyed back to
you.
It's an amazing time, but one of the pluses is that sometimes expertise
is a keystroke away.
ellen
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western
Lately I've noticed statements by members of the Fed and the Clinton
administration expressing puzzlement as to why wages remain low,
especially compared to improvements in productivity. Aren't these the
same folks who just a few months ago were releasing statements about how
they needed to
A new book is out on the liberalisation of New Zealand's economy which
might be of interest to some on this list: Jane Kelsey, The New Zealand
Experiment: A World Model for Structural Adjustment?
It was published November 10 by Auckland University Press and Bridget
Williams Books. The AUP
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote:
* * *
2. It is often the case that some unions have left themselves vulnerable
to attack through doggedly resisting all work place change. I am not
saying this is/was necessarily the case at Tiwai.
Actually it probably was not. The Tiwai Point
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote:
CRA cites Tiwai as an example of the success of its strategy, and claims
that productivity and the like have improved enormously. There are two
aspects to such claims:
1. They are never independently verified. We all know how shonky the OHS
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote:
Unions win against RTZ/CRA
Since no other Australian seems to have gotten around to it, I should
inform labour activists and other progressives that there has recently been
a major victory in Australia against a transnational company with an avowed
whistleblower statutes. Put it
all together, and you get a complex situation in these sorts of cases --
creating the best of all possible worlds -- more work for lawyers.
Ellen Dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FW: Murder in Nigeria
Dehai members:
I have just read Debrai Haile's eloquent eulogy for Ke Sara Wiwi, murdered
Friday in Nigeria.
While it may be comforting to think about the actions of the US or South
Africa, or to expect other governments to
On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Paul Zarembka wrote:
Friends and comrades:
I received the request below from a colleague in our Women's Studies
program here who teaches a course in American pluralism. I wonder what
suggestions you may for her and thus our students. Thanks,
Paul Zarembka, SUNY
On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Doug Henwood wrote:
Comrades - I'm going to be interviewing Nell Minow of Lens Inc., one of the
leading "relationship investors" and "shareholder activists" around. I've
included the text from their web home page below.
Anything you'd like me to ask her about?
Doug
On Fri, 6 Oct 1995, Eric Nilsson wrote:
* * *
Robert Flanagan in _Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion_
pointed out the same thing: the long delay in punishment for
labor law violators meant there was, in essence, almost no
punishment. And, this was true BEFORE the coming of the
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 11:54:18 -0400
From: Michael H. Belzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From Michael Belzer:
This note is in response to Michael Etchison's reference to Michael
Belzer's summary that "truck drivers who earn the lowest wages and are
least likely
On Sun, 3 Sep 1995, jtreacy wrote:
Treacy: I think Maggie has some very interesting stuff in her reply but
to credit all women as knowing who Pops is streachs credulity.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] COPYRIGHTED
On Sat, 2 Sep 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One last point -- the term
I began my collective bargaining seminar this term by assigning my
law students to read an essay by New Zealand economist Brian Easton, "The
Personal Responsibility of an Economist." This is a graceful, thoughtful,
and powerful essay, and I wanted to recommend it to those on this list. The
On Fri, 30 Jun 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please, I need information (articles, books, etc.) about the
worker strategies against the "participative management" in the
american companies
THANKS.
Arturo Pacheco ( Visiting Professor at CSU, Fullerton)
Labor Notes publishes several
I'm highly influenced by being midstream in a piece I'm working on about
New Zealand and what I'm putting into my conclusion. I think it's
important to engage in intellectual debate, but agree with MMeeropol (aka
gramps) that we stand at a watershed event. Those who have the skills to
A labor lawyer's perspective on the TIAA-CREF proposal after this was
forwarded to the Worklaw list.
ellen
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western School of Law
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Date: Tue, 16 May 95 13:47:05 EST
From: Goldman, Alvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 14 May 1995, Bruce Cronin wrote:
A fascinating side of the neo-'liberal' crusade for 'freedom' in the
NZ economy has been their systematic campaign to stamp out criticism of
their programme. Alternative centres of policy advice and critique in
govt and the universities have had
On Fri, 12 May 1995, Robert Peter Burns wrote:
Last summer I published a short article called "Global
Thatcherism in the Light of the British Experience" . . .
Rather, global Thatcherism is an ideological reflex of the global
restructuring of class relations, the effect of which is to
Well, and once you get started on fiction, there's Ursala LeGuin's The
Dispossessed and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and - in an odd
sense Sherri Tepper's The Awakeners (or North Shore / South Shore) about
a society which survives by having its priest class organize all of human
I forwarded this original message to a friend of mine who teaches at
another university, and I thought her response might be of interest -
though it is not written from an economics perspective.
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western School of Law
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone:
me the ability to ask, "Really?" In a sense,
they are the study that is so difficult to run in social sciences.
ellen dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, but you notice they are only doing the experiment on "white graduate
students." I've tried to figure out whether this is good or bad -
suppose it depends on the sort of experimentation involved. Or does it
mean that with pending legislation on affirmative action and tuition rises
there
1. Welfare
2. Crime
3. IQ
4. Taxes
5. Balanced Budget
6. Downsizing, unemployment, unionbusting
7. Third world underdevelopment
8. etc.
and, let me add, privatising of public services.
Ellen Dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 9 Mar 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some may recall that (Sir) Roger Douglas was the architect of free market
mania in New Zealand in the 1980s. Out of office for some years, Douglas
recently launched a new political party, ACT (any Kiwis or Aussies out there
who can tell us what
, I would recommend talking to Brian
Easton, an economist there. His address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has
been a consultant for some of the Iwi (tribes) there, as well as for some
of the labour unions.
Ellen Dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The US isn't the only place where this is an issue. See below.
Ellen J. Dannin
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 9:16:32 +1300 (NZDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: minimums of wages and others
THANKS FOR THE REFERENCES.
THERE ARE PILES OF
The address is:
EPI, 1730 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Wasington, D.C. 20036
Phone:
1-202-775-8810
On Thu, 2 Feb 1995, Christopher Benner wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to get a copy of "THE STATE OF WORKING AMERICA" I
don't have EPI's phone number of address. Sounds very useful.
Coincidentally, the Labor Party Advocates held a public hearing in the
San Francisco area yesterday on the need for a labor party. Four
hundred people showed up to participate at the meeting in Hayward. More
public hearings are planned across the US. I was not at the meeting but
can get a
Why don't we just throw in the towel and join in the chorus of "Serfin'
USA?" How much difference is there between the lot of a serf and the
situation of lots and lots of us who are wholly dependent on the wishes
of the seigneur, who render to this seize-er our time, our energy, our
beliefs?
And something else you should be aware of - Alberta's premier has taken
Roger Douglas of New Zealand, the progenitor of the eponymous Rogernomics
- as his model. Douglas' book was way up on the best seller lists in
Canada for a long time. Douglas goes about billing himself as a
socialist who
I keep thinking that one day the Dems will wake up, but every time I turn
on the news and hear them talking, the words coming out of their mouths
convince me otherwise. It's hard not to feel a sense of despair about
all of this.
The only way I can think of to move the Dems is to convince
I thought the enclosed from friends in the UK might be of interest to the
depressed members of this list.
Ellen J. Dannin
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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 10:55:27 -0600
From: W.M. Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: elections: postscript
I've just heard on an
On Tue, 8 Nov 1994, Teresa Amott wrote:
On another note, how are Pen-Lers coping with depression and anger today,
as we exercise our freedom to vote for the marginally lesser evil? The
thought of Jesse Helms as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee
is so nauseating that I'm having
Oz is shorthand for Australia.
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western School of Law
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: 619-525-1449
Fax:619-696-
On Mon, 31 Oct 1994, DJ wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 1994, Cristina Marcuzzo wrote:
I am very interested in the service mentioned as
On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, Cotter_Cindy wrote:
Ellen Dannen says:
[Dannin actually]
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"When you move from a person's propensity to a group propensity you get into
ever more dangerous territory. It really does not matter very much what 100
female law professors have a propensity to do when you
I appreciate hearing this discussion from the economists' points of
view. You folks have the skills to approach these sorts of social and
economic problems that we lawyers do not have. However, I want to throw
something from the field of law into the discussion.
I have taught evidence a
I agree, Jim. And if we don't like it, we should go back where we came from.
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western School of Law
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: 619-525-1449
Fax:619-696-
We've been having trouble with these immigrants ever since we came to
this country!
I tried to respond to this request yesterday but don't know if the e-mail
got through since our system was ill.
One interesting article appears in Sheldon Friedman et alia, eds,
Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law (ILR Press 1994). The
article by three economists (larval and adult
Is anyone aware of any cost-benefit analyses which have been done as to
government subsidies given to persuade companies to locate to an area or
not to relocate from an area? Some of the subsidies are quite high on a
per job basis, so that it seems hard to believe the citizens will ever
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