"[P]eople have to protect their rights, and part of protect[ing] their rights is to not overwork themselves..."
Brilliant. This is such an important principle and so many people, even on the left, just can't grasp it. It is the *preliminary condition* without which anything else is futile. When people overwork they do two things: they increase the power of those who dominate them at the same time as they diminish their own access to health, culture and material resources. I suppose now we'll hear from a certain quarter that this is a "slogan" and slogans are for the birds. No, it's not a slogan. It is a concise statement of the spindle around which a very profound and extensive research and analysis is wound. On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > The WSJ has an interview with famous sculptor Richard Serra on the occasion > of a retrospective of his drawings at the San Francisco Museum of Modern > Art. > > Gene > > > > *WSJ:* How did you end up working in a steel plant? > > *Mr. Serra:* It was the most money that I could make in a short period of > time. In high school I was working in a produce market, and as soon as I got > out I joined U.S. Steel in Alameda working on a rivet gang. We were building > trusses that went on to build the Crown Zellerbach building [at One Bush > Plaza]. > > *WSJ:* So you learned something there about working with steel? > > *Mr. Serra:* Yes, but I never thought I was going to use it. I probably > learned more about how people organize labor. If you become a member of a > steel union very early, you understand that people have to protect their > rights, and part of protect their rights is to not overwork themselves. > > full article: > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576637421082739078.html?KEYWORDS=Geoffrey+A+Fowler > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Sandwichman
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