below is quite long, Michael Hoover
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William G. Roy. _Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial
Corporation in America_. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,
1997. xv + 338 pp. Figures,
The conversation about butts here the other day made me one-click Richard
Klein's Cigarettes Are Sublime (Duke U P, 1993). Here are the first few
paragraphs of the intro.
Doug
Cigarettes are not positively beautiful, but they are sublime by virtue of
their charming power to propose what
I'm looking for a good book or two on the history of U.S. immigration
policy: when did they start regulating immigration and why? How did
employers use immigration (if they did) to divide the workforce and push
down wages? What were the successive structures of immigration policy in
the late
The purpose of the copyright and patent laws is to encourage invention
and creativity. It's in the US constitution as a matter of fact. The theory
is that no one would bother inventing or writing if they didn't get a return
and also cannot control the use made of the products of their
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Lawrence B. Glickman. _A Living Wage: American Workers and the
Making of Consumer Society_. Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press, 1997. xvi + 220 pp. Notes,
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Subject: Gates Leads Rally Against Government
By John Borland, Net Insider (05/05/98; 4:47 p.m. ET)
Microsoft executives led a rally of business leaders in Manhattan
Tuesday, warning an economic disaster would strike if government
officials postpone the
I get questions like this all the time, and never know what to answer. Any
advice?
I purchased your "Wall Street" and I find myself lacking substantially
enough economics background. I was wondering if you could recommend to me,
an introductory text on economics, preferably from the left
Most students today, unlike
a generation ago, have to work at jobs much longer hours during school
--Nathan Newman
not only do a majority of today's students work more, over 40% attend
part-time and about 40% are enrolled at night...they make up a large
portion of what educrats call
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Whose labor day is it really?
by Fred Gaboury
from the September 1.1995 issue of the
People's Weekly World.
Who founded Labor Day -- and what
Most prominent scientists agree that some sort of "deus-ex-machina" event
created the catastrophic climactic changes that killed off the dinosaurs of
the Mesozoic age 65 million years ago and ushered in the modern Cenozoic
Age of Mammals. The differences are over exactly what the nature of
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THE INCARCERATION INDUSTRY:
TEEMING PRISON ROLLS BODE WELL FOR PRIVATE JAILS
3.12 p.m. ET (1912 GMT) April 22, 1998
By Jeremy Quittner, Fox News
NEW YORK - As federal and state governments struggle to
cope with a soaring prison population, a handful of
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
I read somewhere recently that more than a few US folks (don't recall %)
believe that such storms are attracted to mobile
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When Rainforest Ice Cream Melts:
The Messy Reality of 'Socially Responsible Business'
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Subject: IPS: Marxist Lessons For Beleaguered Asia
ECONOMY: Marxist Lessons For Beleaguered Asia
By Dipankar De Sarkar
LONDON, Apr
apologies if below has already appeared on pen-l...forwarded by Michael
Hoover
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IBM's board of directors thanked chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner for
restoring Wall Street's faith in the company with a $4.5 million bonus
and stock options in 1997, according to a financial statement filed
Monday.
Last year's bonus marks a 38 percent increase
re: length of women's skirts and business cycle...some listers may
be interested in cyber-feminist and new electronic media artist
Nancy Paterson's installation *Stock Market Skirt*...Michael Hoover
URL: http://www.bccc.com/nancy/skirt.html
A blue
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Another vignette of the workings of the "free" market that is forced
down the throats of the
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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said, in an ABC News "20/20" program
interview to be broadcast Friday, that his donations to society would
exceed $1 billion during his lifetime.
"Well, at age 42, I've given at this point a little over $500
excerpt from an article that appeared in the 1/11 edition of the
Orlando Slantinel, er, Sentinel...
"The former rich flock to Thailand's flea markets (AP)
Sniffing a bargain, the middle-aged woman in a fashionable silk dress
squeezes through the crowd to take a closer look at the second-hand
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So tickets went on sale for Diana's gravesite, at the equivalent of US$15.
Proceeds will benefit her memorial charity. She married into one of the
most pointlessly rich families in the world, and yet her frenzied mourners
are going to fund her legacy.
Doug
gee, given the subject header, I
There is only one place in Lenin's writings where he specifically describes
what a "vanguard" means. It is the section "The Working Class as Vanguard
Fighter for Democracy" in "What is To Be Done". The notion of a vanguard
emerges out of Lenin's struggle with the "Economists", *not* the
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