Now the thing to do would be to take a list of names of those whose posts are included below and who are currently active and see if we can connect the two...
M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of S. Lerner Sent: December 29, 2001 7:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Some FW posts from December '94 (1 of 3) As promised. here are some of te first FW posts (names removed, so don't flinch!): "It is necessary for people to stand up and say that competitiveness is not the metric against which human progress (and technology policy) can be measured. 12/21 Western industrial nations will not achieve competitiveness by competing directly with low cost producers...but by concentrating on high-value-added processes and products..and promoting greater and continuous education and training. 12/21 It is the absence of competition that raises living standards 12/21 I wonder what we should be teaching undergraduates who will soon enter the future-workforce 12/21 The whole postsecondary concept will implode if undergraduate students can't land (entry) level jobs out of university. 12/21 My work increasingly involves the impacts of the continuing information revolution on various aspects of society, e.g. Feasibility and Implications of Universal Access to E-Mail and Information Assurance in Cyberspace. 12/21 I want to investigate ways of creating local jobs with this global network (Internet) so that people can work remotely without having to leave our region (SE Ohio - VISTA volunteer) 12/21 I'm intensely interested in new models of education...we're in a period of paradigm shift. 12/21 America was built on an unspoken bargain between empoyers and workers:the implicit promise that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you would be rewarded with a steady jobs, rising pay and gradually improving benefits...About 15 years ago, the promise began to fade and today the disintegration is accelerating 12/21 The political debate in the Netherlands at the moment is all about jobs and the future of social security. I would like to get more ideas and information on what opportunities and threats information technology may have for employment. Or how could it be arranged that everybody works less and gets more time for permanent education, or voluntary work, or whatever (Netherlands) 12/21 (Education to be) a future citizen would be better. And I think some combination of creativity and communitarianism should be the foundation of future orientation to work. 12/22 My two main questions are: 1.What are the socio-political implications when the overwhelming majority of workers are marginalized?...falling living standards are a prescription for political extremism...2.What happens when companies lose their markets because of falling living standards? Who is going to purchase the output of streamlined manufacturing firms? 12/22 I am working on a book about the reorganization of the state (particularly welfare state) in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark and Sweden. 12/22 (My concerns are) the loss of manufacturing (and now) service sector jobs in industrialized countries like the US. Given the politics of polarization combined with the increases in inequality and exploitative workplaces, the future looks grim...We all cannot be knowledge workers, or symbolic analysts (Reich) since the economy is not producing enough of these jobs (and the trajectory of the system is ineluctable toward deskilling, which acts as brake on the viability and sustainability of an information society. (I want) discussions about the social and political dimensions of the changes as well as the visioning of social movements to to deal with transnational corporations and new employment relationships. 12/22"
