In a message dated 98-03-14 05:06:03 EST, Dennis writes:
Also, for a country were half the population in the early Fifties lived in
non-urban areas, and where women were largely confined to familial jobs
and brutalized by fearfully medieval gender ideologies, this expansion of
the low-wage
That said, it's true the power and glory of Sony and Mitsubishi was
(and is) built on the backs of rudely treated, miserably compensated and
frightfully overworked working women. Which is why, I suspect, that
the class politics of 21st century Japan are going to be the politics of
gender.
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On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, MScoleman wrote:
As to Japan, the benefits
accruing to labor have accrued to Japanese men. A New School student (Dave
Kucera) has done some interesting research which shows that the Japanese
corporations could reimburse men well because of the flexibility of the
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, valis wrote:
Your immense admiration for the German and Japanese systems suggests
to me that their judicious compromise between stalemated capitalist and
SD forces is the best we can hope for, there or here. Is that so?
Admiration? Hardly. They're capitalist,
valis:
Your immense admiration for the German and Japanese systems suggests
to me that their judicious compromise between stalemated capitalist and
SD forces is the best we can hope for, there or here. Is that so?
Redmond:
Admiration? Hardly. They're capitalist, planet-raping bastards,
You're making the classic rentier mistake of confusing short-term
profitability (the accumulation of finance capital) versus long-term
profitability (market share). The whole point of my argument is that
the banking system of the Central European and East Asian metropoles
