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Friends,
In the original manuscript of my new book, "Why Unions Matter," I
included a long annotated appendix of useful resources. In the final
version of the book, this had to be greatly shortened to keep the
Friends,
Please show whatever solidarity you can with these workers. Email the
listed University officials and pass the following letter along.
Include the letter in any emails you send. If you have any suggestions
for us, please let me know. Thanks.
Michael Yates, teacher at the Johnstown
Friends,
After some real nightmares at the printers, my new book, "Why Unions
Matter" (Monthly Review Press), should be in my hands in a couple of
days. I kept a list of all of you who requested a copy for possible
review (writing a review that is!). I'll be sending them out to you
asap.
Dear friends,
Is anyone on pen-l aware of any empirical studies which link employee
turnover (or conversely tenure) to the quality of the product
(especially services such as education, healthcare, etc.). That is, if
an employer introduced a policy which increased employee turnover (made
Friends,
These are excellent points raised by Michael E. Perhaps we could say
that to build a labor movment which in turn will help to change the
society in a radical way, democracy is a necessary but insufficient
condition. A radical ideology is also needed.
BTW, Steve Fraser says in his
Friends,
There is a good short article in this week's Nation on politics in Chile
since Pinochet's arrest. It is written by Marc Cooper. The arrest has
galvanized anti-Pinochet sentiment in Chile and completely rearranged
the political map, according to Cooper.
Historian Howard Zinn has
Friends,
In light of Louis's illuminating remarks on Wright and Johnson, list
members might be interested in reading the books by the late architect,
Harris Stone, including "Workbook of an Unsuccessful Architect."
Published by Monthly Review. It was through comments he made on a review
of this
Friends,
In the recent issue of the "Union Democracy Review," Herman Benson,
founder of the admirable Association for Union Democracy, comments on an
article on union democracy by Steve Fraser which appeared in a recent
issue of "Dissent" magazine. Steve is one of the founders of SAWSJ
Friends,
Brother Max makes good points, but I do not think that all that many of
today's union officials were yesterday's firebrands. Rather, as Kim
Moody argues, most came to power during the period of labor-management
cooperation and greater prosperity. This may be why so many have not a
Friends,
In the October issue of Monthly Review, I have a review of two books:
Roger Horowitz's "'Negro and White, Unite and Fight'," about the
packinghouse workers' union and "Blacks and Reds" by Earl Hutchinson.
In commenting on the Communist Party's debate about race, I mentioned
various
Friends,
I am reading Martin Hart-Landsberg's new book, "Korea: Division,
Re-Unification, U.S. Foreign Policy," published by Monthly Review.
This is an excellent book, full of interesting details and wonderfully
well-written. I had not realized the extent to which the U.S. gov't.
collaborated
Friends,
Last night I taught my first class in prison. A friend of mine has been
teaching classes in Western Penitentiary, located along the Ohio river
in Pittsburgh, for some time and she talked me into giving a class in
economics next fall. She wanted me to get acclimated so I agreed to do
a
Friends,
Following is a memo I sent to our faculty, to the student paper, the
university' newspaper, and the local paper in Pittsburgh. I'd
appreciate comments. Sorry, it's a bit long.---m. yates
Michael Yates
LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER
I do not think that many faculty
Friends,
Doug Henwood has an excellent summary piece on recent economic turmoil,
including a good summary of Brenner's New Left Review article, in the
most recent LBO. Check it out.
Also, Doug describes our own Michael Perelman, as the "unjustly
neglected economist, Michael Perelman" This is
Friends,
I want to concur with Michael's comments. And I want to add that we
seldom discuss the relations of production, especially what takes place
inside of our workplaces (where we go as Marx said to get our
"hiding"). No matter whether capitalism is in a crisis of
overproduction or not,
Tom,
I have articles on underemployment. Should I mail them to you?
michael yates
Friends,
I agree completely with Tom. I have been working for 30 years and the
employer expects more work now than when I began. I get so pissed off
at all of the deals being made, the hypocrisy, the lack of respect for
good work that i literally drive myself crazy, into such a depressed
state
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Dear friends,
Since the early 1950s, Monthly Review Press has been publishing some of
the best books on the left. From classics such as "Labor and Monopoly
Capital" and "Monopoly Capital" to timely works such
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Friends,
This January I will be teaching an economics course in UMass-Amherst's
MA program in Union Leadership and Administation. The students come
from various backgrounds, some are higher-level union or
of eminent
economists have not.
michael yates
William S. Lear wrote:
On Thu, September 10, 1998 at 12:04:49 (-0400) Mike Yates writes:
Friends,
I concur with Jim's assessment of Robin's analysis. Why is it that so
many people do not grasp Marx's use of abstraction? You would think
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Friends,
I concur with Jim's assessment of Robin's analysis. Why is it that so
many people do not grasp Marx's use of abstraction? You would think that
economists, trained in neoclasical abstraction, would
;free to choose" as if
nothing social shapes our free choosing. The problem I had with my economics
education is that in 50-odd economics classes, we never discussed the
political nature of the constraints within we make our choices.
michael yates
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Mike Yates
Friends,
It seems to me that the tobacco companies must bear a lot of responsibility
for cigarette addiction and its many attendent evils. For one thing they do
target young people in their advertising, because they know that it will be
difficult for teenagers to stop as adults once the
Friends,
Of course, the Soviet soldiers repulsed the Germans, and my father and all other
fathers in the war owe them a lot. I mourn their deaths and the sad fact that
their widows have to sell off family possessions to keep from starving as Russia
and the other republics continue thier mad
Friends,
I intend to see Spielberg's film, even though I know it will be a mixed bag, like
his other films. My father was in the South Pacific war for a couple of years as
a radioman in theNavy. WW2 was the most important event of his life, by far,
though he too seldom spoke of it. He died
Jim,
I've kind of missed your pointed language! I think we all admire the work you are
doing.
michael yates
James Michael Craven wrote:
To All:
I haven't been on pen-l for awhile and then what do I do, come on
with some intemperate language. To Barkley Rosser et al my words were
not
I'm not sure this message went through. If it did, I apologize.
Friends,
We have often had requests for a good econ. intro text. It is clear
that most
pen-lers are unhappy with what is available. In light of this, I am
going to start
working on a proposal for an intro econ. text to be sent
Friends,
I just read two good short pieces in the latest issue of "Z" magazine.
The first, written by the staff and titled "Economics?", is about the
sad state of the economics profession. It starts out by noting
Columbia's payment of a salary of $300,000 to Robert Barro. It goes on
to comment
Friends,
Kim Moody can be reached at Labor Notes, 7435 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI 48210.
Phone: 313-842-6262. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
michael yates
Thomas Kruse wrote:
Dear PEN-Lers:
Anyone have an email (or regular mail) address for Kim Moody? Much appreciated.
Tom
Tom Kruse /
Friends,
As a basic econ. text, I've used Hunt and sherman (Economics: An Intro to
Traditional and Radical Views).. They have not done a 7th edition yet, but there
is a lot of pretty good stuff in it.
Michael Yates
Doug Henwood wrote:
I get questions like this all the time, and never know
Friend,
Have people seen John Sayles new movie, "Men With Guns." It's set in a
LA country and involves a naive well-to-do doctor who sends a bunch of
students into the countryside to help the poor. He sees one of them in
the city and asks him what he is doing back in the city when he is
Friends,
I don't like cars much either, but at present I have to have one. If I lost it,
I'd be in a bad way. Sme too with the workers who are threatened with plant
closings. What are they supposed to do in the meantime? Sit back and enjoy the
cleaner air? Of course, we have to push for a
Friends,
I wish I had been to the Brecht Forum to hear Louis speak. I hope they did not
refund any money, since Louis surely gave them thier money's worth. what a
guy!! by the way, I take it Churchill never did show.
michael yates
by the way, Louis is like my friend Fernando Gapasin,
Freinds,
In reply to Thomas Kruse's question, Monthly Review has been sponsoring
meetings (2 so far in NYC and in LA, more planned) to allow labor activists to
interact and discuss common problems and to reinvigorate the connection between
the socialist left and the labor movement. The two
Friends,
To be honest, I find college towns very depressing. Down the hill from Cornell
the rest of the place sucks. Of course, I'm so disgusted with higher ed that I
could not bear to live among so many academics, not to mention drunken students.
I've taught for a few weeks at UMASS and I
Friends,
Is it not also the case that in hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. trailer parks and
similar such structures are the worst hit? Who lives in these, rich or poor?
michael yates
James Devine wrote:
Louis writes:
Cholera may strike rich and poor alike, but it actually tended to afflict
the
John,
The debate is in Monthly Review for April 1998, pp. 5-36.
michael yates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could anyone out there tell me where I will find the recent debate between
David Harvey and John Bellamy Foster on the character of the enviromental
crisis ?
I thought it was in a
Friends,
First, I want to thank our friend in Bolivia for his many interesting
posts and for the good list of readings on the drug situation.
Second, I want to mention that the last issue of Monthly Review has some
interesting comments from the editors (inside of front and back covers)
on
Friends,
Michael E's post of David Bacon's article on Russian workers is much appreciated.
A shorter version of the article is also in last week's Nation magazine. Bacon is
a fine labor journalist and photographer.
Michael E's own article on the U.S. labor movement appears in the latest issue
Friends,
I had dinner with Ward Churchill and a few others before a talk he gave at the
Univ. of Pittsburgh. He speaks bluntly but I found him to be a pretty nice guy.
I wonder if I'd have any tolerance at all if I were he or a member of any
oppressed minority. As it is, I wake up angry every
Friends,
The most recent issue of the Review of Radical Political Economy (winter
1998) has book reviews by pen-lers Jim Devine (review of a book on
profit rates by Dumenil and Levy) and Michael Perelman (biography of
John Bates Clark by John Henry). Check them out.
Jim Devine informs me that
Friends,
I don't doubt for a minute that Max and various kindred spirits do very good
work or that it is necessary to lobby, pressure, inform, etc. the most left-wing
elements in the government. But perhaps what Louis is suggesting is that there
is a tendency among some left-liberals to beleive
Friends,
There is a book reviewed in the 12/97 "Monthly Review" by Bruce Cumings. The book
is writtne by Maurice Meisner and is titled "The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry
into the Fate of Chinese Socialism." Cumings gives it a rave review. Has anyone
on the list read it? It sounds like it has
Friends,
The Russian people are in a healp of trouble. Most are certainly worse off
than they were in 1980. What rich country has seen such a large decline in
life expectancies. And AIDs is skyrocketing. Not to mention the massive theft
of the people's property and starving pensioners and
Friends,
Yes I have been a teacher for a long time, much too long actually. And yes I have
criticized the labor unions. But I tried to organize ourfaculty when I was an
untenured 24 year old instructor. I helped the janitors and maintenance workers
form their union and I have supported them
Friends,
It is one thing to discuss the Sendero Luminoso movement in Peru and to try to get
through all of the propaganda put out about it. It is also one thing to understand
that people ravaged by brutal repression will often react vioently when they are
organized. It is one thing to say that
Friends,
A couple of days ago, Louis P. posted part of an article by Marc Cooper
on Chile 25 years after Allende's murder. It is also in this week's
Nation magazine. Jim D. reacted to Louis's comments, a little too
critically in my view. This article is really excellent, a fine
combination of
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Friends,
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Friends,
PI just read something on union density in the U.S. for 1997, but I cannot
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friends,
by all means, we should invite david card to participate on pen-l. he's
done fine workd.
michael yates
Michael Perelman wrote:
David Card visited the hallowed halls of Chico yesterday. I mentioned
in that we had brought up his work several times over the past few
months. I
friends,
I just read the last issue of Left Business Observer. There are excellent
articles on the Asian crisis, the U.S. economy, and much more. Worth a look and
a subscription! Before Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy got so old, Monthly Review
used to feature such articles in the "Review of
Friends,
The most recent issue of the Rev. of Rad. Pol. Economy has articles by
pen-lers Doug Henwood (On wall street and the economy) and David
Richardson (On the CPI controversy). There are also interesting
articles on the "Future of Capitalism." John Foster has a good article
on capitalism
Friends,
Mao wrote about several kinds of contradictions. Some are primary at a given
time and some are not. In Cuba, the main contradiction I believe is that
between the US and Cuba. We here in the US can do little about Cuba's internal
contradictions, although we can offer principled
Dear Andy,
I hate to send this over the list but I could not get a messge through to you
at the email address listed. Please resend me the list of sources for my
appendix plus anything else you think would be good. Thanks.
Michael yates
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