Shane Mage here gives the same answer that Jim Devine trots out periodically. "Don't discuss this until everything is perfect, then we can do it, if we want to." And then Devine adds -- see his subsequent posts -- that cutting hours is a bad idea because it might increase productivity and lower wages. Talk about being stuck in the static world of neo-classical Micro!!!
On Jul 23, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Sandwichman wrote: > >> My recall of events is slightly different, Jim: >> >> 1. gene: let's cut work hours >> 2. Jim: good idea, but how do we keep employers from cutting wages? >> 3. Sandwichman: by doing our own hours accounting based on Chapman's theory >> of hours. see link to power point presentation or manuscript chapter >> detailing how this can be done. > > This has to be the most pointless discussion since the mice discussed and > concluded that a bell had to be put around the cat's neck--but when one of > them asked "Now, how do we bell the cat?" the only answer was >> 4. silence > because none of them had grasped the magic inherent in Chapman's Theory of > Hours. > > Reduction of the legal work week is a *political* issue, ie., a matter of > class struggle, not a question of theory. Until a mass "People's" (ie., > left-populist) Party is formed and the Dumbocrats have gone with the Whigs, > cutting work hours without cutting incomes will never be on anybody's agenda. > And if popular disgust with Obama keeps mounting to the point where a > People's Party is formed to contest the 2012 elections, it will still have no > place on that party's agenda because the central need of the people is vastly > increased public investment with the concomitant establishment of full > employment (~3% of the potential labor force temporarily unemployed). Then > and only then, with full employment a reality and the Labor Movement reborn, > and with the official work-week actually enforced on the whole economy, could > we begin to talk meaningfully about reducing the official work-week. > > > Shane Mage > > "scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities > that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention to" > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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