After much languishing in darkness and neglect, the LBO website (http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home) has now been much upgraded. A bit snazzier, easier navigation, and more content. New article highlights: * Globalization/antiglobalization - with a special look at the International Forum on Globalization, Doug "Sweatshop" Tompkins and his Foundation for Deep Ecology, and David Korten's terrible book, When Corporations Rule the World * The future of work - is work disappearing? Does Jeremy Rifkin have any idea what he's talking about? The growth jobs of the next decade: cashier, health aide..... New feature: Long-term economic charts, going back as far as 1820, through the most recent available data, with brief commentary. First arrival: basic U.S. employment, unemployment, and earnings data. More to come, not only U.S., but international. I've tested it with Netscape 3.0 and Internet Explorer 2.1 for the Macintosh. Any bug reports, advice, whatever, is ethusiastically welcomed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SAMPLE ARTICLES After non-collapse * Anti-market forces * The contract with Mexico * Crime wave! * Financial crisis averted * The foundation culture * Globalization/antiglobalization * Income distribution in the U.S. * Jerry Brown * Myth smashing (small business not so jobful, downsizing not productive) * New Party * Health-care finance * Pension privatization, and the fraudulent Social Security "bankruptcy" * Poverty in the U.S. * Race and income * Sex and income * Work and its future SUPPLEMENTS Bond prices * The Gini index * The language of money * Speculation & interest rates * Welfare and wages STATS AND COMMENTS Employment * Unemployment * Earnings [U.S. now; more U.S. figures as well as international figures to come] Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
