At 05:57 2/11/98 -0600, valis wrote:
Ajit brought up the interesting question of whether foreign grad
students will get the short straw if/when TAs gain legal employee
status after the coming militancy. The campus scene would surely
be impoverished, socially as well as intellectually, if foreign
How to reply to a man who thinks that, if you check out a person
on his/her institution's web site (in my case, the Institute of
Social Studies in The Hague), you know everything you need to know to
categorise them, let alone insult them? Frankly, Valis has a real
problem. I didn't end up
I don't understand the question at all. Here at SUNY TAs have now been
unionized for more than five years and foreign students get TA positions
just as frequently as they always have. I'm Director of Graduate Studies
for Economics and there have not been any memos coming going changing
anything
Gar, the article below from the Guardian should provide an answer.
But note the end-papargraph, which I took from another Guardian report. It
is more than likely that Britain will wait 8 yrs before having a referendum
on PR. As you probably already know we will be using PR in elections for
Michael Eisenscher wrote:
We have allowed the Right to appropriate this language because we failed to
contest in this corner of the ideological arena.
I'm not sure about this. I think once you start talking about "family"
you're on the right's ideological terrain. Sort of like the "progressive"
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The UAW wants to organize "knowledge workers." That's why they absorbed
the
National Writers Union, why they represent the staff at the Village
Voice,
Barnard College, and, increasingly grad
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
valis wrote:
No, I hadn't, but thanx, though I still don't understand how the UAW and
the grad unions can even relate as being in the same fight.
The UAW wants to organize "knowledge workers." That's why they absorbed the
National Writers Union,
No, I hadn't, but thanx, though I still don't understand how the UAW and
the grad unions can even relate as being in the same fight.
The UAW wants to organize "knowledge workers." That's why they absorbed the
National Writers Union, why they represent the staff at the Village Voice,
(This is a private communication from Patrick Bond that he agreed to share
publicly with some minor editing.)
Hi Louis, just a few minor corrections...
He is also the co-author of "Township Struggles".
editor, merely, of "Township Politics" (but author of Uneven
Zimbabwe, which I think
Quoth Jim D, in part:
So instead of saying "we're in favor of the family" and then redefining the
"family" as any set of two or more individuals who live together (or
whatever), the point is that we're in favor of helping and protecting
children, providing health care to everyone (whether
Thanks. So it is a diluted form of PR to be voted on eight years from
now -- maybe. (If Blair is established enough by then he may renege.
If the Tories throw him out in the meantime (eight years is a hell of
a long time in politics), no referendum.)
Aditya Chakrabortty wrote:
Gar, the
Max writes: ... it's not simply about economic provision,
but about the values one would impart to children and the ethic
of responsibility (both individual and communal).
OK...
In a less
positive vein, it's implicitly about breeding for the nation.
I'm confused. It sounds as if you're
Jim D rebuts:
Valis writes: ... the day Walter Reuther said "Let's see them buy your
cars!"
he made more of an impression on himself than on his CEO interlocutor.
as far as I can tell, Reuther Ford never talked in this way. It's an
apocryphal story.
Them's the best kind, Jim. Ask any
valis wrote:
No, I hadn't, but thanx, though I still don't understand how the UAW and
the grad unions can even relate as being in the same fight.
The UAW wants to organize "knowledge workers." That's why they absorbed the
National Writers Union, why they represent the staff at the Village
Quoth Jim D, in part:
So instead of saying "we're in favor of the family" and then
redefining the
"family" as any set of two or more individuals who live together (or
whatever), the point is that we're in favor of helping and protecting
children, providing health care to everyone
Michael Eisenscher wrote:
We have allowed the Right to appropriate this language because we failed to
contest in this corner of the ideological arena.
Doug writes:
I'm not sure about this. I think once you start talking about "family"
you're on the right's ideological terrain. Sort of like the
I wrote: Does anyone on this list know of research indicating that the
percentage of
workers employed in the "primary sectors" of good jobs and relative job
security has been shrinking relative to the total?
Writing from Bolivia, Tom Kruse asks the appropriate question: In what
country?
I was
After about 10 days Comrade Ross of ISS thinks to respond:
How to reply to a man who thinks that, if you check out a person
on his/her institution's web site (in my case, the Institute of
Social Studies in The Hague), you know everything you need to know to
categorise them, let alone
This is hardly worth it. First, I get insulted for being a
"newcomer." This, simply because, after listening for so long to what
is too often just the talking-shop of a very few, I chose to make a
comment or two. The reaction from valis is hardly hospitable or
democratic, so I can see now
I would note in the context of this discusssion the
argument made by Thomas Pynchon in his _Gravity's Rainbow_
that the slaughter of Hereros in Deutsche Sudwestafrika in
the early part of the twentieth century was a dry run for
the Nazi Holocaust a few years later.
Barkley Rosser
On Tue,
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emerging
In a less
positive vein, it's implicitly about breeding for the nation.
I'm confused. It sounds as if you're advocating nationalist eugenics. Or
are saying that the new right is advocating that?
I'm not advocating breeding in general, though
I would seriously consider all offers.
What
At 16:08 2/11/98 -0800, you wrote:
Does anyone on this list know of research indicating that the percentage of
workers employed in the "primary sectors" of good jobs and relative job
security has been shrinking relative to the total?
In what country?
Tom
Tom Kruse / Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba,
Quoth Rev. Tom W, in part:
Hands up all those who think it's "the state"?
Here's my speculation about why the right has such success. It's not that
they "appropriate" any language. It's that they share and identify with a
mythic version of the state that is deeply engrained in the culture.
While you're at it, Rev. Tom, what's your take on Jacob and Esau?
You get a CD of Mein Kampf for a quick answer.
The smooth new mode of production (animal husbandry) supplanting the hairy
old one (hunting)? There must have been something stronger than savory mixed
in with old Isaac's goat meat.
I was recently confronted with the most basic question concerning the
minimum wage, and I realized I did not have a precise answer.
Who exactly is covered by the federal minimum wage? Or more easily,
who is exempted? What about farm workers? Waiters?
Thanks,
Doug Orr
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Friends,
According to Card Krueger _Myth Measurement: The New
Economics of the Minimum Wage_ (1995, pg. 238) 87.7% of workers
nation-wide were covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act which mandates
minimum wages. My notes say that percentage was in 1998, obviously wrong.
The correct
All this talk about "appropriating language" makes me quesy. What is this
talk? Some kind of politically correct focus group grope?
My almost-five year old has a video out from the library about wheat
(extremely well done video series, by the way) and in the video they give a
short recap of the
servants to awaken to the larger fray. Aside from my gross location in
space nobody knows anything solid about me; you should be proud that
You're wrong, valis. We here in "Washington," that
place upon which you wished the Ebola virus, have
a full dossier on you. For instance, we know that
While you're at it, Rev. Tom, what's your take on Jacob and Esau?
You get a CD of Mein Kampf for a quick answer.
The smooth new mode of production (animal husbandry) supplanting the hairy
old one (hunting)? There must have been something stronger than savory mixed
in with old Isaac's goat
Max What I had in mind was natalism, a la
France, hardly eugenics.
Still, natalism is obnoxious, since it is supposed to build up the "native"
population. France did it to build up their army, I believe. This would
help them fight the "Huns" and Algerians.
I also believe that natalism -- the
The really serious version of the Joseph story is the
novel by Thomas Mann, _Joseph and his Brothers_. The usual
literary pooh-bahs like to say that _The Magic Mountain_ is
Mann's greatest novel, but it is not. J his B is.
Barkley Rosser
On Tue, 03 Nov 1998 12:38:41 -0800 Tom Walker
Barkley Rosser wrote,
The really serious version of the Joseph story is the
novel by Thomas Mann, _Joseph and his Brothers_. The usual
literary pooh-bahs like to say that _The Magic Mountain_ is
Mann's greatest novel, but it is not. J his B is.
Thanks, Barkley. And to think, I was on a
At 05:35 PM 11/3/98 -0800, Ellen Dannin wrote:
Robert Saute
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What percentage of the labor force fall into the categories "professional,
executive, and
administrative personnel"?
In 1997: 29% of the workforce was managerial and professional.
14% was
It is alarming that the AEA has refused to discuss this matter with
URPE. I certainly support efforts within the AEA to reverse this
crackdown, but we should not assume that this is our only recourse. The
case for preserving URPE's presence at ASSA can, if necessary, also be
made through direct
Robert Saute
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What percentage of the labor force fall into the categories "professional,
executive, and
administrative personnel"?
Michael Yates did a great job summarizing some of the many and complex
exemptions from coverage of the FLSA. To know whether any exemption
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Michael,
This letter went out to URPE members a couple of weeks ago. Please
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Max Sawicky wrote, in a CARE package of comic relief bound for Holland:
You're wrong, valis. We here in "Washington," that
place upon which you wished the Ebola virus, have
a full dossier on you. For instance, we know that
you cultivate begonias, you are susceptible to hay
fever, and your
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