At 11:32 PM 11/27/96, Tom Walker wrote:
What, pray tell, is so 'new' [or even interesting] about this 'nothing new
here' argument?
Uh, just to clarify, newness is not a virtue by me nor is lack of newness a
vice. I just get irritated when Rifkin's stale idiocies are presented as
fresh advances
But do allow me to indulge a slight digression on the 'nothing new here'
theme. In October of last year, the Atlantic Monthly carried a cover story
criticizing the use of the Gross Domestic Product as a surrogate measure of
national prosperity. Conventional economists arose with such a uniform
Patrick Bond asked,
Why stop at the (broadly-characterised) point-of-production?
and argued convincingly for:
Corporate campaigns aimed increasingly at both the power and
vulnerability that characterise firms' financial relationships.
To which I would add, that the strategic state policy
November 28, 1996
FRENCH TRUCKERS VOTE TO EXTEND STRIKE
PARIS (Reuter) - Striking truck drivers voted to keep
up their 11-day stranglehold on the French economy on
Thursday, defying government calls to return to work
after talks with bosses collapsed over pay demands.
Truckers
The manner in which human beings act upon naturally occurring
material in order to subsist and procreate, and the manner in which
they relate with one another in the process of this production are
governed by economic laws. These scientific economic laws exist
objectively and cannot be created,
BUT, BUT, BUT The women we are talking about, working class women of all
races (the largest percentage increase in teen births has been amongst
caucasian teens) do NOT go to college, nor do they receive professional
degrees. Work by Elaine McCrate and (I forgot the other author's name, oops)
Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/November/1996
09:33am
Introductory remarks: Strike breaking and union busting in the
1990s: What can we learn from the past to combat it?
... "what strategies might the labour movement adopt to try to eliminate
that substantial surplus of labour?"... What I'm
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:00:02 +
From: LabourNet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Danish truckers also strike
Comments: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Truckers Still Block Border Crossings, Ports
to Protest Tax Rule
Source: Associated Press
COPENHAGEN,
Tom Cochrane misunderstood. I was NOT rejecting Lipietz et al 100%. In
fact, I've learned a lot from the regulation school. I like Lipietz's
esoteric vs. exoteric distinction, though I'd rather use different words.
I like to think about the dynamics of capital at a high level of
abstraction
Tom Walker wrote:
The 'this' that's already happening is not the same 'this' that's nothing
new. Part-time, casual and short term contract work are most definitely not
the 'same thing' as a generalized reduction and redistribution of work time.
Are you seriously suggesting that insecure,
At 9:23 AM 11/28/96, Tom Walker wrote:
But there is a danger in attacking Rifkin and his "stale idiocies" because
Rifkin mixes those stale idiocies with some of the most important strategic
issues of the day. The popular expression is "throwing out the baby with the
bath water."
It's important
friends,
i have not read rifkin's book, mostly because i think he is something of a
charlatan. i have read aronowitz's and difazio's book, and i have written a
review of it for science and society. it is not especially well-written and it
is full of jargon. it certainly never demonstrates
Doug Henwood wrote,
I just get irritated when Rifkin's stale idiocies are presented as
fresh advances in human thought.
I can sympathize with Doug's irritation. Rifkin adds nothing to the
discussion other than a popularizing zeal and a slick presentation. Rifkin
is especially good at mining the
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The labour movement in British Columbia was delighted with the re-election
of the social democratic NDP in the provincial election last May. Since
the election, however, the government (which had campaigned AGAINST the
neoliberal agenda) has taken to slashing the public sector in the name of
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